Digitale Neuigkeiten sind heutzutage in Sekunden geteilt und weiterversendet. Dadurch können sich auch Falschnachrichten schnell verbreiten. Umso wichtiger wird es, Meldungen zu überprüfen und sich nicht an der Verbreitung von Falschnachrichten zu beteiligen. Vier Tipps, um die eigene Medienkompetenz zu stärken.
Adblocker verletzen keine Urheberrechte von Webseiten-Anbietern, sagt das Landgericht Hamburg; die eigene Datenschutz-Persönlichkeit kennen- und verstehen lernen mit dem Privat-o-Mat; und der Wissenschaftsrat fordert mehr Open Access in der Wissenschaft. Die Webschau bei iRights.info.
The FORCE11 attribution working group held a workshop during the 2021 FORCE conference to explore some ethical aspects of using Contributor Roles (CRs). This workshop provided an overview of various CRs and their practical values in terms of providing a better recognition of the wide range of scholarly contributions.
The Front Matter blog is launching a new membership model today. In August 2021 this blog started offering optional paid membership via the Buy Me a Coffee service. Unfortunately. two things happened: a) Paypal dropped supporting Buy Me a Coffee for membership payments at the end of last year, and b) there wasn't really any uptake of this support model, even if only charging $3 (or a cup of coffee) per month.
In August GitHub added enhanced support for citation-file-format (CFF) to all GitHub repositories. As you can see in the chart below (kindly provided by Stephan Druskat and based on GitHub queries for CFF files), this has led to a significant increase of repositories using CFF files and thus exposing software metadata that go beyond what GitHub provides via other means.
Today we are announcing Upstream . And if you’re reading this, you’re already a part of it! Upstream is a community blogging platform designed for Open enthusiasts to discuss… you guessed it: all things Open. It’s a space for the whole community to voice opinions, discuss open approaches to scholarly communication, and showcase research.
Happy publication day to The Lockdown Chronicles! Get your copy NOW via Good Comics.
Paddy Johnston interviewed me for the Good Comics blog on the creative process behind my new comic.
This blog started registering DOIs for its content with Crossref last week, and all 450+ blog posts so far were registered by Monday morning. This enables the easy import into reference managers (here using Zotero): Using Zotero or any other reference manager this blog post can now be easily cited: 1. Fenner M. The Front Matter blog now uses DOIs. Front Matter. Published online October 14, 2021.
An online event to launch The Lockdown Chronicles. A Comic Strip Quarantine by Ernesto Priego. Panel discussion and a virtual toast!