News from Rippling Ideas

This month we attended the CZI Open Science meeting and openRxiv celebration - check out our key takeaways and see why we’re so excited about openRxiv!

Preprints & Open Science

Preprints in Motion

Latest activity from Rippling Ideas

• Preprints vs Publications; whats the difference? [YouTube]

Selected News Roundup

• Redefining publishing: why we’re moving beyond the article

• Reflections on Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism

  • “Lauren Smith…emphasised the need for more intentional community-building to support such fragile efforts“

• Scientific publishing without gatekeeping: an empirical investigation of eLife’s new peer review process

  • Two points I think stand out here and eLife may not love the findings: “The interrater agreement and interrater reliability for the criteria “significance of findings” and “strength of support” were similarly low, as previous empirical studies for gatekeeping journals have shown. The fairness of peer review is not or only slightly compromised“ & “Given this evidence for expert judgement in peer review and other decision-making processes, the use of expert judgement for final decisions on whether or not to publish a manuscript seems questionable“. For me, this really highlights the problem with PRC - there isn’t a meaningful improvement of peer review.

• Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge

• Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board on Open Science

• Preprint mandates gather momentum & Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies

• Beyond the Journal Awards

• Cambridge demands radical change in academic publishing

• Open or Proprietary? AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response

• “Yes” to Transparent Service Fees, “No” to Fees That Charge Authors to Exercise Their Rights

• Adoption of open research practices “exceeding expectations”

• Science Must Decentralize

• The rise of China and the fall of open access

  • Excellent piece from James

• The Royal Society Moves to Subscribe to Open

• Why the Economics of Scientific Publishing Need Urgent Reform

  • Stefanie provides an excellent series of clear actionable steps. Fantastic article.

Academic Culture

Latest activity from Rippling Ideas

• Open science and mental health

Selected News Roundup

• The People Culture and Environment element of REF2029 is already changing the sector, we shouldn’t give up on it now

• EU high-level conference on reforming re­search ass­ess­ment

  • Dec 3-4

• What I Learned From Advising 120 Ph.D. Students

• Finding common ground: When commercial and non-commercial meet in open science

  • I strongly believe that the way to make this distinction is on values and governance, not commercial or not.

• Research assessment: a round-up for early-career researchers

  • This is a genuinely fantastic overview

• Putting knowledge before prestige

• The loss of community in open science: a sign of a failing movement?

  • We’ll also be writing about this theme soon

• Modernizing Academic Reward Systems for an Open and Engaged Future

• Podcasts now count towards research impact in world first for Altmetric

  • It was great to see our own Preprints in Motion podcast featured in the social media announcement

• Scoping Review: The Contributions of Open Science to Research Culture

• Rebuilding the Architecture of Science

  • Well worth a read

• Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture

• Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data

  • Strikingly low success rates! This should really push funding agencies to adopt a lottery approach, it seems the only genuinely fair path forward.

• What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision

  • Can personally attest to the importance of this one. But it’s important to remember that PI’s don’t get adequate training in these skills, a gap that we hope to fill at least a little.

• Researchers at Iraqi university must cite colleagues, school journals in papers

Trust in Research

Latest activity from Rippling Ideas

• How to determine if a preprint is trustworthy? [YouTube]

• Who owns our knowledge? [YouTube]

Selected News Roundup

• A statement from the President of the Royal Society

  • Extremely disappointing and a real lack of leadership

• How Can Open Science Practices Increase Trust In Research? [YouTube]

  • Well worth a watch and an strong overlap with us

• A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

• PREreview release statistics for the reviews they host

• Is Science Retracting Enough Papers?

• Google Scholar-based tool gives extra credit to first and last authors

  • Replacing one bad metric with another isn’t a great step

• qed launches

• Iraqi university forcing students to cite its journals to graduate

• Putting knowledge before prestige

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