Coffeehouse – Page 2 – A collection of data blog posts from around the web

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Tips for negotiating the peer-reviewed journal publication process as an early-career researcher

by Blog Admin • November 7, 2018

Early-career researchers are subject to higher levels of scrutiny than ever before, with publication in academic journals essential to how they are funded and evaluated, and how their careers will be built. Margaret K. Merga, Shannon Mason and Julia E. Morris share insights from their own experiences of navigating the journal submission and publication process as ECRs, emphasising the importance […]

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The perpetual tango: what exactly is “evidence-informed policymaking” premised on and working towards?

by Blog Admin • November 6, 2018

Given the field of evidence-informed policymaking has existed for some time, experts’ confusion, knowledge gaps, and inconsistencies around the fundamentals is bewildering. Reporting on a recent Ontario case study, Jacqueline Sohn considers how evidence-informed policymaking works in practice, likening the swift and abrupt movements that eventually lead to policies being developed to a perpetual tango, and reveals how research producers […]

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The growing, high-stakes audit culture within the academy has brought about a different kind of publishing crisis

by Blog Admin • November 5, 2018

The spate of high-profile cases of fraudulent publications has revealed a widening replication, or outright deception, crisis in the social sciences. To Marc Spooner, researchers “cooking up” findings and the deliberate faking of science is a result of extreme pressures to publish, brought about by an increasingly pervasive audit culture within the academy. By now most readers will have heard […]

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SDR Deposit of the Month: Endangered sharks of Peru and the ban to save them

by Hannah C Frost • November 4, 2018

November 4, 2018

by Hannah Frost

Science

Stanford Digital Repository

Note to our readers: The Stanford Digital Repository team is reviving our popular blog series in order to highlight some of the terrific content deposited by our community on a regular basis. Be on the lookout for monthly posts!

When Biology student Julia Grace Mason requested a DOI from the SDR team for her recent dataset deposit, I was pleased to see continued uptake of our DOI service launched earlier this year with Stanford Libraries’ new membership to DataCite. This service is of growing importance to Stanford’s publishing researchers! While preparing the metadata for the DOI, I had the opportunity to check out what her research is all about. If you are interested in sharks, Peru, ecology, and qualitative-quantitative hybrid research methods, you will agree this work is impressive!

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open science beers vancouver

by Heather Piwowar • November 4, 2018

Open Science Beers Vancouver has been declared! Tuesday, November 6, 2018 6 PM – 9 PM The Lido 518 East Broadway, Vancouver, British Columbia V5T 1X5 organized by Ente Hbayar I’ll be there, come join us! Would love to meet everyone doing open science in Vancouver! Needless to say the beers part is optional, come even […]

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How to save space and stick to the limit when writing research funding applications

by Blog Admin • November 2, 2018

Research funders impose length limits on applications for practical reasons: to discourage epic submissions, and to ease the burden on reviewers. It’s also true that concise ideas are generally stronger ideas. But sticking to these limits can often seem a difficult and frustrating task. Jonathan O’Donnell offers advice to researchers looking to find a little more space in their applications. […]