February 11, 2021
From PubPub, the MIT open source platform: The community is still working on the processes, workflows, standards, and values that will support this emergent form of publishing. But that shouldn’t stop anyone who wants to explore these models from starting now. With...
February 8, 2021
MIT Technology Review, on the challenges to reproducibility in AI research: According to the 2020 State of AI report, [...] only 15% of AI studies share their code. Industry researchers are bigger offenders than those affiliated with universities. In particular, the...
February 6, 2021
The Daily Beast: The reporter at the center of the collapse of one of the New York Times’ biggest reporting projects is moving to a new beat. Rukmini Callimachi, formerly one of the paper’s highest-profile reporters on ISIS and extremism in the Middle East, has been...
February 1, 2021
From SPARC Europe's summary of a recent gathering to discuss and inform the coming Plan S for books: With almost 75 attendees, this workshop focused on business models for OA books and brought together experts from the field before ending with a document sprint. The...
January 29, 2021
From the UK-based open monograph project COPIM: Available on Github at https://github.com/BirkbeckCTP/otf-signup, features of the system include order tracking, billing management, notification of new sign ups, and access control for backlist packages of books. The...
January 28, 2021
Sam Moore, in a LSE Impact post on research and the commons: Simply put, policymakers should reorient their focus away from mere open access to the outputs of scientific research and instead nurture the commons across the research lifecycle. It would mean less of a...
