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Latest DMPTool Release 

The DMPTool team is hard at work developing a suite of new features to facilitate the creation of optimized and structured DMPs. In response to growing federal mandates for data sharing, the DMPTool is focused on supporting these new policies … Continue reading

Supporting the upcoming NIH data sharing requirements with the DMPTool

Immediately following the new NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMS) announcement, academic medical centers started to contact the DMPTool team with questions about how best to prepare for the pending policy change. These centers faced new and seemingly … Continue reading

Book Review: Capitalism’s Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian edited by Des Freedman

In Capitalism’s Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian, editor Des Freedman brings together contributors on the newspaper’s bicentenary to offer a critical look at its recent and remote past, focusing particularly on its liberal values, institutional co…

Side-stepping safeguards – Data journalists are doing science now

An aspect of the media landscape that has been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increasing role of media organisations in presenting and undertaking their own, often complex, data analyses. In this cross-post Irineo Cabreros, discusses…

Effective Data Practices: new recommendations to support an open research ecosystem

We are pleased to announce the release of a new report written with our partners at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU): Implementing Effective Data … Continue reading

Book Review: Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin

In Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist, Alexander Zevin traces the 177-year history of the Economist newspaper, positioning the Economist not only as a lens for understanding reinterpretations of liberalism across different eras, but also as an active participant in influencing policy and public debate. This is a rigorous and meticulously researched … Continued