During this Peer Review Week 2018, Tom Culley shares findings from the new Publons “Global State of Peer Review” report. As demands on the peer review system increase, reviewers are actually becoming less responsive to invitations.
This week is Peer Review Week 2018, a global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining scientific quality.
On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisation, with the support of the European Commission including the European Research Council (ERC), announced the launch of cOAlition S, an initiative to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality.
Today, Tuesday 04 September 2018, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), joined funders from across Europe to launch cOAlition S, a collective declaration of a commitment to open access publishing in academia.
Research funders from France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and eight other European nations have unveiled a radical open-access initiative that could change the face of science publishing in two years — and which has instantly provoked protest from publishers.
On Thursday September 6th, for the first time ever the Library at Sheffield Hallam University will be taking part in Heritage Open Days, the UK’s largest heritage festival which was established in 1994 and since held annually in early September. Heritage Open Days have to…
Is the best way of incentivising open scholarship to measure it? Lizzie Gadd is not so sure. There is a lot of talk at the moment about measuring open scholarship as means of incentivising it.
The active use of metrics in everyday research activities suggests academics have accepted them as standards of evaluation, that they are “thinking with indicators”. Yet when asked, many academics profess concern about the limitations of evaluative metrics and the extent of their use.
The difficulty of reaching practitioners and experts is one of the main challenges faced by early-career researchers in particular, and one that can overshadow fieldwork experiences and attempts to produce new knowledge.
There’s been a flurry of reports and announcements on open science over the last few weeks. Plenty of good holiday reading – though, like the UK early summer, perhaps as much heat as light. Certainly, UKRI’s policy teams are likely to have heavy suitcases in August.
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