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The Open Update is Liberate Science’s digest on what’s been going on in the open science space. We release an update weekly, and you can either watch it on YouTube or on listen to the audio on your favorite podcast provider.
Spanish translation
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsJaDBb2tSTggkno29I-TwBr_6-T?e=hrQAef
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcymuEJDDjVTvVW0dXHXK1Q
Podcast
https://anchor.fm/open-update
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University of Cape Town launches open publishing platform
https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/uct-launches-open-access-african-centric-research-platform-2021-01-12/rep_id:4136
SPARC Africa announces partnership with AFLIA
https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/sparc-africa-announces-new-partnership-with-aflia-to-expand-reach/
#crucialscihub response
https://twitter.com/brembs/status/1348623700501929986
SPARC updates Big Deal Knowledge Base
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/
CERN signs agreement with Elsevier
https://home.cern/news/announcement/cern/cern-and-elsevier-conclude-read-and-publish-agreement-start-2021
Author-pays not radical enough
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:33781/
PLOS announces publish agreement with CRKN
https://theplosblog.plos.org/2021/01/plos-and-the-canadian-research-knowledge-network-announce-community-action-publishing-deal/
SpringerNature calls for Big Deals
https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/springer-nature-ceo-calls-for-greater-collaboration/18757378
Research on author-pays waivers
https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.526/
Modern article costs $400 to publish
https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20
zbMATH open launched
http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/nachricht/neue-open-access-plattform-fuer-die-mathematik-geht-online
AAAS allows author self-archiving
https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-welcomes-aaas-decision-to-support-the-sharing-of-aams/
Internet blockade in Uganda
https://netblocks.org/reports/social-media-and-messaging-platforms-restricted-in-uganda-ahead-of-general-election-XB7aaO87
Open Reviewers program
https://content.prereview.org/prereview-open-reviewers-pilot-announcement/
Peer reviews after rejection
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2020.1869547?af=R
64% of Jupyter Notebooks reproducible
https://blog.jetbrains.com/datalore/2020/12/17/we-downloaded-10-000-000-jupyter-notebooks-from-github-this-is-what-we-learned
Using Jupyter Notebooks
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-020-00403-4
Reimagine Research Culture Festival
https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-work/research-culture/reimagine-research-solutions-summit
blogdown v1.0
https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/18/blogdown-v1.0/
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The Open Update is Liberate Science’s digest on what’s been going on in the open science space. We release an update weekly, and you can either watch it on YouTube or on listen to the audio on your favorite podcast provider.
Spanish translation
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsJaDBb2tSTggkno29I-TwBr_6-T?e=hrQAef
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcymuEJDDjVTvVW0dXHXK1Q
Podcast
https://anchor.fm/open-update
***
University of Cape Town launches open publishing platform
https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/uct-launches-open-access-african-centric-research-platform-2021-01-12/rep_id:4136
SPARC Africa announces partnership with AFLIA
https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/sparc-africa-announces-new-partnership-with-aflia-to-expand-reach/
#crucialscihub response
https://twitter.com/brembs/status/1348623700501929986
SPARC updates Big Deal Knowledge Base
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/
CERN signs agreement with Elsevier
https://home.cern/news/announcement/cern/cern-and-elsevier-conclude-read-and-publish-agreement-start-2021
Author-pays not radical enough
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:33781/
PLOS announces publish agreement with CRKN
https://theplosblog.plos.org/2021/01/plos-and-the-canadian-research-knowledge-network-announce-community-action-publishing-deal/
SpringerNature calls for Big Deals
https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/springer-nature-ceo-calls-for-greater-collaboration/18757378
Research on author-pays waivers
https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.526/
Modern article costs $400 to publish
https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20
zbMATH open launched
http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/nachricht/neue-open-access-plattform-fuer-die-mathematik-geht-online
AAAS allows author self-archiving
https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-welcomes-aaas-decision-to-support-the-sharing-of-aams/
Internet blockade in Uganda
https://netblocks.org/reports/social-media-and-messaging-platforms-restricted-in-uganda-ahead-of-general-election-XB7aaO87
Open Reviewers program
https://content.prereview.org/prereview-open-reviewers-pilot-announcement/
Peer reviews after rejection
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2020.1869547?af=R
64% of Jupyter Notebooks reproducible
https://blog.jetbrains.com/datalore/2020/12/17/we-downloaded-10-000-000-jupyter-notebooks-from-github-this-is-what-we-learned
Using Jupyter Notebooks
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-020-00403-4
Reimagine Research Culture Festival
https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-work/research-culture/reimagine-research-solutions-summit
blogdown v1.0
https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/18/blogdown-v1.0/