Bernard Rentier @bernardrentier@social.cleverlibre.org
- Virology
- Open Access
- Open Science
- Freedom of expression
🇫🇷 Virologiste, ancien Recteur ULiège 🇧🇪 (2005-2014)
🇬🇧 Virologist, Rector Emeritus ULiège 🇧🇪 (2005-2014)
🇫🇷 Défenseur de l’accès libre aux publications scientifiques, de la Science ouverte et de la liberté d’expression des chercheurs dans leur domaine de compétence.
🇬🇧 Advocate for Open Access, Open Science and freedom of expression for researchers in their field of expertise.
Joined Nov 2022
"More than our rank".
This is an initiative that every university would do well to join, regardless of its ranking.
Indeed, each institution, for various reasons, many of which are its own, is worth much more than the rank assigned to it by a limited, indigent and ideologically connoted system of indicators.
https://inorms.net/more-than-our-rank/
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Update. Now add the U of #Washington and the U of #Pennsylvania law schools.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/12/03/law-schools-protest-us-news-rankings/
That makes 12 major US law schools that have stopped participating in the USNWR rankings: #Yale, #Harvard, #Berkeley, #Columbia, #Georgetown, #Stanford, #Michigan, #Northwestern, #Duke, #UCIrvine, #Penn, and #UWashington.
« Surely after 20+ years, we have reached the tipping point when OA should be considered the default, if not the norm »
https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/open-access-is-dead-long-live-open-access/
#OpenAccess [via @rickypo]
The impact factor of scientific journals, although having long been severely criticised as a tool for evaluating research and researchers, is still broadly used as a gold standard. Now it is caught in its own trap in the excitement of COVID.
https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/43089/accepted
Carta Academica: Parole publique des chercheurs : liberté académique ou liberté d’opinion ? - https://www.lesoir.be/480284/article/2022-12-03/carta-academica-parole-publique-des-chercheurs-liberte-academique-ou-liberte
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Super podcast with @lizziegadd and Adrian Barnett, Stats + Stories - 'Do University Rankings Really Tell Us Anything?' https://soundcloud.com/statsandstories/do-university-rankings-really-tell-us-anything?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing #ResearchEvaluation #Research #ResearchAssessment #Teaching
Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative: Research Update. Activities for Making Research Data Publicly Accessible
https://www.arl.org/blog/realities-of-academic-data-sharing-rads-initiative-research-update-2-activities-for-making-research-data-publicly-accessible/
Comment retrouver ses connections Twitter sur Mastodon ?
(Les outils de veille, @Fidel Navamuel)
https://outilsveille.com/2022/11/movetodon-retrouver-amis-twitter-sur-mastodon/
« Il n’y a pas de raison que les scientifiques fassent une cession exclusive gratuite de leurs droits ».
28 ans après la naissance du mouvement de l’#OpenAccess, voici une affirmation bienvenue !
https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/il-ny-pas-de-raison-que-les-scientifiques-fassent-une-cession-exclusive-gratuite-de-leurs
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What a great new paper on the cost-benefit analysis of open research practices (weighting towards the latter). Written from the perspective of the biological sciences, but much more widely pertinent.
Sorry I've no idea if any authors are on this platform, but regardless: Bravo to them!
#OpenScience #reproducibility #OpenData #OpenCode
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1113
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Two French research institutes combine forces to convert a journal to the diamond open access model (open access with no author-side charges) 👍
Ifremer (French National Research Institute for Ocean Science) and IRD (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development) have made the journal 𝐀𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 (ALR) a diamond open access journal, with immediate effect!
via @rickypo
Open Access Monographs: Making Mandates Reality
« A shift from a hypothetical future for OA books to a concrete policy with a hard deadline. It is clear that there is a pressing need for libraries and academic book publishers to understand how the sector will meet the challenges of implementing these policies ».
https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/6633
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#Mastodon supports #tag #searching but not #boolean tag searching. I hope boolean searches and follows are on the to-do list.
For example, I do a lot of work with copyright in science. But copyright and science are both huge fields and I care mostly about the intersection. A search for [#copyright AND #science] would be usefully narrow. I'd love to be able to run that search. Even more, I'd love to be able to follow it.
Others must feel the same about [#copyright AND #music] and so on.
« Stop Congratulating Colleagues for Publishing in High-Impact Factor Journals » https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/brcp-parasite-publishers-report-excerpt/ However, even universities who have signed the DORA agreement cannot resist celebrating in their newsletter whenever one of their researchers publishes in a high impact journal… 😉
The European University Association signs the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment and join the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (@CoARA). #ResearchAssessment #ResearchersAssessment
https://eua.eu/resources/news/955-eua-signs-agreement-on-reforming-research-assessment.html?utm_source=flexmail&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_campaign=euanewsletternovember2022candidatesforpresidentnewmemberseuasigns1287euanews&utm_content=2eua+signs+agreement+on+reforming+research+assessment
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To fix peer review, break it into stages https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03791-5
Methodology over metrics: current scientific standards are a disservice to patients and society - https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(21)00170-0/fulltext via @rickypo
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Ireland’s National Open Research Forum Awards €1.16 Million to Six Collaborative Projects to Advance Open Research
Disparate impacts on online information access during the Covid-19 pandemic - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34592-z
- Virology
- Open Access
- Open Science
- Freedom of expression
🇫🇷 Virologiste, ancien Recteur ULiège 🇧🇪 (2005-2014)
🇬🇧 Virologist, Rector Emeritus ULiège 🇧🇪 (2005-2014)
🇫🇷 Défenseur de l’accès libre aux publications scientifiques, de la Science ouverte et de la liberté d’expression des chercheurs dans leur domaine de compétence.
🇬🇧 Advocate for Open Access, Open Science and freedom of expression for researchers in their field of expertise.
Joined Nov 2022
