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Pubblicato in Elephant in the Lab
Autore Elias Koch

Vannevar Bush gave us the most consequential, imaginary conceptualization of a machine for research infrastructure for the 20th century (Memex) and was one of the prime movers in the creation of the National Science Foundation (NSF) – a superb, if flawed, administrative research infrastructure.  Superb: blue sky research; flawed: in some areas it’s been invaded by people representing particular schools of research and excluding others.

Pubblicato in rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Autore Scott Chamberlain

If you have an R package on CRAN, you probably know about CRAN checks. Each package on CRAN, that is not archived on CRAN 1 , has a checks page, like this one for ropenaq:https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_ropenaq.html The table above is results of running R CMD CHECK on the package on a combination of different operating systems, R versions and compilers.

Pubblicato in bjoern.brembs.blog
Autore Björn Brembs

Yesterday, cOAlition S published their updated principles and implementation guidelines for #PlanS, together with the rationale behind the update. This constitutes a very much welcome effort, as evidence of the increasing awareness among funders as to their potential leverage in infrastructure modernization, at a time when institutions have apparently abandoned their faculty completely.

Pubblicato in bjoern.brembs.blog
Autore Björn Brembs

Over the last ten years, scientific funding agencies across the globe have implemented policies which force their grant recipients to behave in a compliant way. For instance, the NIH OA policy mandates that research articles describing research they funded must be available via PubMedCentral within 12 months of publication. Other funders and also some institutions have implemented various policies with similar mandates.

Pubblicato in bjoern.brembs.blog
Autore Björn Brembs

The recent publication of the “Ten Principles of Plan S” has sparked numerous discussions among which one of several recurring themes was academic freedom. The cause for these discussions is the insistence of the funders supporting Plan S that their grant recipients only publish in certain venues under certain liberal licensing schemes.

Pubblicato in bjoern.brembs.blog
Autore Björn Brembs

It’s now been 24 years since Stevan Harnad sparked the open access movement by suggesting in his “subversive proposal” in 1994 that scholars ought to just publish their scholarly articles on the internet: Since then, we have been waiting on the behavior of scholars to change, such that all our works indeed become accessible.

Pubblicato in bjoern.brembs.blog
Autore Björn Brembs

In his fantastic Peters Memorial Lecture on occasion of receiving CNI’s Paul Evan Peters award, Herbert Van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory described my calls to drop subscriptions as “radical” and “extremist” (starting at about minute 58): Regardless of what Herbert called my views, this is a must-see presentation in which Herbert essentially presents the technology and standards behind the functionalities I have been asking for

Pubblicato in bjoern.brembs.blog
Autore Björn Brembs

These days, many academic publishers can be considered mere Pinos: ‘Publishers in name only’. Instead of making scholarly work, commonly paid for by the public, public, as the moniker ‘publisher’ would imply, in about 80% of the cases, they put them behind a paywall.