Summer recap of activities undertaken by the LC Labs team.
The benefits of Open science are not inevitable: monitoring its development should be value-led
Open science is increasingly becoming a policy focus and paradigm for all scientific research. Ismael Rafols, Ingeborg Meijer and Jordi Molas-Gallart argue that attempts to monitor the transition to open science should be informed by the values underpi…
You’re invited: Help make Dryad better for data science
Are you a researcher who does data science? Do you use computational methods in your research, practice informatics, or conduct meta-analyses? We want to make it simpler and more effective for researchers like you to reuse Dryad data. We’re looki…
Ensuring Enduring Access to eBooks: Update on Recent Research and Analysis
Today’s guest post is from Andrew Cassidy-Amstutz, Kate Murray, Marcus Nappier, Camille Salas, and Trevor Owens of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress recently completed a project to analyze the technical characteristics of a substantial set of eBook and eJournal files in the permanent collection and available for onsite access in Stacks, the …
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Why does impact still feel like an add-on to research designs?
Reflecting on his role as an academic and member of a research funding organisation, Duncan Green, considers how impact has in some ways still not become embedded in research culture and is often treated a bureaucratic hurdle to overcome. Because I hav…
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Open Data Digest: August 2023
Your monthly round-up of open data, featuring some of our most viewed publications from researchers around the world. Subscribe today to receive the Open Data Digest directly in your inbox. MEDICINE Telerobotic neurovascular interventions with magnetic…