It has been an … interesting month. But I did manage to finish a small project.

A rapid-fire post about Nitzan and Bichler’s buy-to-build indicator.

Let’s move all textbooks to the Creative Commons.

Economics from the Top Down is now officially in the Creative Commons.

We now seek applicants for a new three-year research fellowship to be held from March 2021, for which the application closing deadline is 7 February 2021. Plan: to strengthen the current technical and computational infrastructure.

Sanam Ebrahimzadeh, a postdoctoral fellow at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a research associate at the ScholCommLab. Here, she tells us more about her research—a fascinating blend of work on data sharing, scholarly metrics, accuracy reviews, and more.

We now seek applicants for a new three-year research fellowship to be held from March 2021, for which the application closing deadline is 7 February 2021. Plan: to strengthen the current technical and computational infrastructure.

A hellish year is over and a vaccine is rolling out. Let’s be thankful for science.

We congratulate and thank Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher, for endorsing the DORA Declaration on Research Assessment (https://sfdora.org/), thereby joining the hundreds of other publishers and scientific organizations which have endorsed DORA over the previous eight years, and also for making a commitment to open the references from all its journal articles submitted to Crossref.

Data management is a core aspect of the research process, helping scholars organize their work, share it with others, and collaborate effectively.