Open Update

Open Update #2 (2021-01-19)


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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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