Faut-il sanctifier la révision par les pairs ? https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2023/07/20/faut-il-sanctifier-la-revision-par-les-pairs/
Framagroupes. Créer des groupes de discussion par mail gratuitement https://outilstice.com/2023/06/framagroupes-creer-groupes-de-discussion-par-mail/
Well done ! Never too late ! #OpenScience will never become a reality as long as researchers (the younger ones in particular) keep being evaluated on quantitative criteria pushing them towards superficial 'profitability' rather than substantive efficiency. @ULiegeRecherche #CoARA https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_18335474/en/uliege-signs-the-coara-agreement-for-the-reform-of-research-evaluation
A mental-health crisis is gripping science — toxic research culture is to blame
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01708-4
abstracts from the Open Science for Health conference, Paris, 17.02.2023. In French. https://aaa-aphp.fr/science-ouverte-pour-la-sante-au-palais-du-luxembourg-le-17-fevrier2023-lessentiel-des-interventions-lors-du-colloque
Well… Surprised ?
« Articles in open access repositories receive 50 % more citations than paywalled ones »
And look who’s publishing this !
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133323000733
The Musée du #Louvre innovates and publishes the catalog raisonné of its collection of Van Dyck paintings in four simultaneous formats, three of which are digital and accessible and downloadable for free (#openaccess).
Le Louvre wishes to provide free, unlimited, and immediate access to its own research publications while at the same time facing the challenge of the dematerialization of art books.
👉 https://presse.louvre.fr/le-premier-livre-multiformat-du-musee-du-louvre/ (also in English).
Not a surprise… Mass walk-out at an Elsevier journal editorial board : « Too greedy ». https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees . It sounds familiar though…
How librarians can help identify potentially predatory journal emails
https://jmla.pitt.edu/ojs/jmla/article/view/1554
Science journals integrate Dryad to simplify data deposition and strengthen scientific reproducibility - http://www.stm-publishing.com/science-journals-integrate-dryad-to-simplify-data-deposition-and-strengthen-scientific-reproducibility/
The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries - The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/internet-archive-libraries-federal-court-ruling/673615/
Why Interoperability Matters for Open Research – And More than Ever - https://twitter.com/oatp/status/1644333447865851905?s=46&t=u0V-ObXWdI6eNzGHjS4wJQ
The U.S. Repository Network (#USRN) just released its guidelines on Desirable Characteristics of Digital
Publication #Repositories.
https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Desirable-Characteristics-of-Digital-Publication-Repositories-APPROVED-20230331.pdf
This is in time to influence US federal funding agencies in picking the "designated repositories" to host #OpenAccess copies of articles arising from federally funded research.
Trends in preprint, data, and code sharing, 2019-2022 - https://theplosblog.plos.org/2023/04/open-science-indicators/
Why do so many good ideas fail ? https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/science-publishing-innovation-why-do-so-many-good-ideas-fail/
🇫🇷 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.