[…] provide targeted policies and interventions in support of, for example, editorial board and conference speaker diversity, addressing bias within the peer review process, and reporting on the sex and gender dimension of research, to ensure that we enable robust research in […]
[…] general, the use of specific approved repositories with particular data types conforming to specific structures and standards, and most strictly, peer–review of data, whatever that means. Guidelines and structures Those who follow trends in open data will be aware of […]
[…] to as ACM Open. The first is to transition ACM to an open access publisher for the entire portfolio of peer reviewed research articles we publish. Last year, this amounted to approximately 21,000 original research articles from over 40,000 authors, and […]
[…] learner’s convenience for no charge. It has been generated by practicing librarians who share their expertise with RDM with their peers. It addresses various aspects of RDM services in libraries such as how to effectively advocate for an RDM library […]
[…] a pared-down, yet stagnant, publication system would be acceptable, with journals providing the basic services required and nothing further ( peer review and a PDF). The entrepreneurs and startups will move elsewhere, and the technological innovation, new metrics and tools will […]
[…] rate for persons with disabilities of working-age in developed countries is as low as half the rate of their non-disabled peers. People in developing countries have it even tougher, with employment rates of just 10-20% for working age people with […]
[…] the scholarly communications industry. Additional session highlights include: New Directions in Open Access Business Models and Open Access Initiatives Disrupting Peer Review Advancements and New Directions in Scholarly Indexing Current Disruptors in Academic Research: Scientific Misconduct, Spam Journals, and Mega Journals […]
[…] and interpretation easier and less error prone, and in doing so, to eliminate difficulties around reproducibility for the purposes of peer review and publication. Gigantum offers a work environment, that is, a framework for developing and doing actual computation, rather than […]
[…] new kind of product that disrupts the usual chain of command. The articles in most Common Threads volumes were already peer–reviewed, had copyright assignments or permissions, and needed only minor proofreading. Much of the labor of our monographs workflows was […]
[…] also not considered compliant and while that may disappoint some, this is a recognition of the value of high quality peer review for the scientific record. (Of course, this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t support preprints as an important mechanism for […]
[…] OA by providing comprehensive OA-option metrics to authors of primary research articles prior to submission, at submission, and during the peer–review process to maximize the uptake of the OA option. This promotion would be via online reports, seminars, and webinars. […]
[…] to graduate school to pursue an Ed.D., I will admit that I have a different perspective than most of my peers on legal issues. So imagine my surprise when I was told that I was required to enter into a […]
[…] One way to answer this question is to examine visual depictions of scholarly processes. Research workflow diagrams are everywhere: in peer–reviewed articles, online research reports and issue briefs, and blogs like the Scholarly Kitchen. These visualizations present a dizzying variety […]
[…] norms that tend to favor men. Amy’s work on gender barriers in a variety of industries has been published in peer–reviewed journals and edited volumes. She became interested in subtle (also called implicit or unconscious) bias as she experienced it […]
[…] How much power are researchers going to cede to those with money? Isn’t the whole reason we have the current peer review system an attempt to wrestle power away from funders and prevent them from restricting researchers? In a world where […]