Available to watch now: “Responding to the Nelson Memo: repository re-curation for open science”. This talk introduces the concept of re-curation with examples from three different types of repositories and research organisations; generalist, instituti…
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Dryad in the community: Collaborative support for the open data lifecycle
Available to watch now: “Collaborative support for the open data lifecycle” from the January 2023 ESIP Meeting with the theme of “Opening Doors to Open Science”. This session guides attendees through the process of data management from planning stages …
You’re invited: Integrating Dryad with eJournalPress
A Dryad Webinar Please join us on Tuesday, February 21 to learn about Dryad’s recent integration with eJournalPress (eJP). Discover how to activate the free and simple integration for a corresponding eJP journal – supporting authors in making their res…
Quarterly roundup: Your February 2023 news from Dryad
Welcome to the Dryad newsletter, keeping you up to date with data policies and compliance, Dryad product developments and events, and more. To get the latest news and developments from Dryad delivered straight to your inbox, please sign up to our …
U.S. policy: Celebrating the “Year of Open Science”
As we round out the first month of 2023, we’re celebrating the Year of Open Science, a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) initiative to empower researchers to adopt open science practices through events, training, and incentives…
AI paper mills and image generation require a co-ordinated response from academic publishers
The role of AI in the production of research papers is rapidly moving from being a futuristic vision, towards an everyday reality; a situation with significant consequences for research integrity and the detection of fraudulent research. Rebecca Lawren…
How intelligent open science can inform our response to global crises
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the potential strengths and existing weaknesses of open science practices and open data sharing to addressing urgent social and technological challenges. In this post, Lucia Loffreda and Rob Johnson present a new repo…
Research funders can tackle research waste – Lessons from COVID-19 research
Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic promoted faster and more open research practices, it also revealed ongoing issues of research waste, and the widespread duplication of research efforts. Till Bruckner provides evidence for how research waste continues to im…
The Human Rights Case for Open Science
You’re writing a grant application, and you want to make a strong case for open science! You’ve seen colleagues use language from human rights treaties to support their arguments for open work in the past: but what does that actually mean? Does interna…
Three false starts on the road to open social science
The shift to ‘open’ working across the social sciences as a discipline group entails a welcome but demanding cultural change. Yet, Patrick Dunleavy argues that there have already been three false starts: focusing only on isolated bits of the open agend…