Open Update

In this week's episode, we review the open science news of the year 2021.

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Holiday tip: Podcast “Degrees of Abuse”

https://www.ajiunit.com/investigation/degrees-of-abuse/

PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected] or @libscie

Music: StreamBeats

(00:26) Intro

(00:55) People of open

(01:55) Transgender rights in publishing

(03:20) Acquisitions, consolidation, and closures

(04:43) Cybersecurity and data tracking

(06:09) Open vaccine patents

(08:24) Open science policies

(09:54) Sci-Hub's court case

(10:38) Outro

In this week's episode, we talk about surveillance publishing, data tracking, and the art of creating a good lab research culture for everyone.

Humane Labs Project

PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected] or @libscie

SOURCES

Deceptive rankings

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/12/07/researchers-sound-alarm-on-predatory-rankings/

TOP Guidelines critique

https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2022/01000/Getting_Over_TOP.1.aspx

Journal Transfers

https://journaltransfer.issn.org/statistics

Economic Science Association

https://t.co/lIT0tdf0Iu

DGPs on data tracking

https://www.dgps.de/aktuelles/details/dgps-vorstand-und-kommission-open-science-unterstuetzen-stop-tracking-science-initiative/

Wikimedia on data tracking

https://blog.wikimedia.de/2021/12/07/datentracking-die-schoene-neue-welt-der-wissenschaftsverlage/

Scholarly Kitchen blog

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/12/09/new-clarivate-science/

Lab values

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.06.471498v1?rss=1

Mentoring

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.08.471870v1?rss=1

In this week's episode, we talk about a new initiative in the struggle against ableism in academia, and further consolidation of the publishing market through acquisitions.

Dr. Eleanor Haine joins us for this special edition of the Open Update to help us make sense of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.

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TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) Intro

(01:00) Headlines

(02:12) Main stories

(02:16) Main stories - Accessible Academia

(04:15) Main stories - Publisher acquisitions

(05:38) Interview Dr. Eleanor Haine

(33:38) Outro

PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected] or @libscie

SOURCES

DAIR established

https://www.wired.com/story/ex-googler-timnit-gebru-starts-ai-research-center/

Preprint removal, withdrawal

http://blog.europepmc.org/2021/12/transparency-for-preprints.html

OSF Preregistration updates

https://twitter.com/briannosek/status/1466814366469218317?s=12

Strike UCU

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11896/Why-were-taking-action

Accessible Academia

https://www.accessible-academia.nl/en/ableism-alerts/

Clarivate acquires ProQuest

https://clarivate.com/news/clarivate-successfully-completes-acquisition-of-proquest/

Wiley acquires KU

https://openresearch.community/posts/wiley-acquires-open-access-innovator-knowledge-unlatched

Martin Paul Eve on KU

https://twitter.com/martin_eve/status/1466513937680195592?s=12

In this week's episode, we talk about two new reports by the European Commission and the newly launched Peer Community Journal.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected] or @libscie

Disclaimer: Liberate Science GmbH is behind this podcast. We explicitly do not report about products made by Liberate Science GmbH, even if this is part of that week's newscycle.

SOURCES

New German coalition government

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/koalitionsvertrag-der-ampel-parteien-im-wortlaut-darauf-haben-sich-spd-gruene-und-fdp-geeinigt-a-3e25c4da-088a-4971-8a4d-4797a4ecf089

https://twitter.com/amreibahr/status/1463511083637956611?s=12

https://twitter.com/GoodTransNews/status/1463574690493042689

Dutch gov apologizes to transgenders

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/11/27/met-excuses-aan-transgenders-maakt-demissionair-kabinet-belangrijk-gebaar-a4067078

FORCE11 launches Upstream blog

https://upstream.force11.org/posts/welcome-to-upstream

WTO postpones meeting

https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news21_e/mc12_26nov21_e.htm

EC - Reforming research assessment

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/36ebb96c-50c5-11ec-91ac-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

EC - She Figures

https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-law-and-publications/publication-detail/-/publication/67d5a207-4da1-11ec-91ac-01aa75ed71a1

Peer Community Journal

https://peercommunityjournal.org/page/submit/

In this week's episode, we talk about the unpaid labor of reviewers, researchers struggle to retain access to Sci-Hub, and the beta launch of OpenAlex.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected] or @libscie

SOURCES

Silke Helfrich passed away

https://twitter.com/commonify/status/1460421667654717440?s=12

COVID drug licensing

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/11/1105862

Black students = more debt + fewer grants

https://www.science.org/content/article/blackstudents-take-more-debt-and-get-fewer-slots-grants-data-show

NPOS2030 consultation

https://survey.surf.nl/index.php/493148

Unpaid labor of review? Billions

https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-021-00118-2

Sci-Hub motion against block

https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-researchers-file-intervention-application-to-fight-isp-blocking-211119/

OpenAlex beta

https://openalex.org/

In this week's episode, we talk about the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, the continued patent disputes in government funded research, and a new university initiative.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected] or @libscie

SOURCES

CrossRef event data

https://www.crossref.org/blog/event-data-now-with-added-references/

Malta Open Access Policy

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/113249/malta_launches_first_national_open_access_policy_for_public_consultation

Inflation decreases your debt

https://theintercept.com/2021/11/10/inflation-economy-debt-milk-prices/

Sci-Hub blockade

https://torrentfreak.com/major-publishers-expand-sci-hub-libgen-and-ebook-piracy-blocking-211112/

UNESCO Open Science Policy

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/11/1105762

https://council.science/current/news/unesco-science-commission-adopts-open-science-recommendation/

https://twitter.com/moellerl/status/1460273364770168835

https://twitter.com/tijh/status/1460258973366501380

White House Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/15/fact-sheet-building-a-new-era-of-nation-to-nation-engagement/

NIH-Moderna vaccine fight

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/12/headlines/nih_and_moderna_in_legal_battle_over_covid_vaccine_patent_rights

University of Austin

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/we-cant-wait-for-universities-to

In this week's episode, we talk about scamming editors and a new data sharing policy at NIH.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected] or @libscie

SOURCES

Sudan coup

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/11/1105012https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1456609942274772994?s=12

Open Publishing Fest calendar

https://openpublishingfest.org/calendar.html

Scamming Editors

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03035-y

NIH Data sharing

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-21-013.html

In this week's episode, we talk about effects of precarious working conditions at universities, the deceitful use of non-profits, and  gatekeeping of ideas in research funding.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected] or @libscie

SOURCES

Figshare+

https://figshare.com/blog/Introducing_Figshare_/643

Open Science fund projects

https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/26-projects-stimulate-open-science

APA apologies

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/10/apology-systemic-racism

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/07/independent-review-release

NHS Open Access repository

https://nhs.iro.bl.uk/about?locale=en

Precarity at universities

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/30/my-students-never-knew-the-lecturer-who-lived-in-a-tent

Facebook → Meta

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdqxx/zuckerbergs-foundation-kills-meta-science-company-on-day-of-facebook-rebrand

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2344-no-such-thing-as-a-free-gift

Gatekeeping of ideas

https://www.science.org/content/article/funding-agency-s-reviewers-were-biased-against-scientists-novel-ideas

https://academic.oup.com/spp/article-abstract/48/5/635/6296161

In this week's episode, we talk about ableism in academia, a new investigation by Al Jazeera about sexual misconduct at universities, and Brasil's federal science budgets.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected] or @libscie

SOURCES

Sudan internet disruptions

https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disrupted-in-sudan-amid-reports-of-coup-attempt-Q8ov93yn

Elliott Harmon passed away

https://twitter.com/evacide/status/1451990039085289472?s=12

Princeton against rankings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/21/i-lead-americas-top-ranked-university-heres-why-these-rankings-are-problem/

Elsevier quadruples prices

http://dana.uvm.edu/news/changes-access-clinicalkey

Brasil's federal science budget

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02882-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02886-9

Ableism in academia

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02907-7

https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/123203

Al Jazeera Investigates

https://www.ajiunit.com/investigation/degrees-of-abuse/

https://www.ajiunit.com/podcasts/

In this week's episode, we talk about discovery and delivery of open access content, threats to researchers, and a manifesto for improved mental health and well being in academia.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Contact: [email protected] or @libscie

SOURCES

Open Access Week 2021

http://openaccessweek.org/events

Open Access Checker

http://www.snsf-oa-check.ch/

NASA's open science program

https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/transform-to-open-science

Compounding Sexism (NYTimes; $)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/14/opinion/gender-bias.html

Hindawi-ResearchGate

https://www.hindawi.com/post/content-syndication-partnership-advances-discovery-research/

https://twitter.com/lisalibrarian/status/1450103905489141764?s=20

Threats to researchers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02741-x

https://www.vsnu.nl/en_GB/news-items.html/nieuwsbericht/788-universiteiten-nemen-landelijke-maatregelen-tegen-bedreiging-wetenschappers

Mental health manifesto

https://zenodo.org/record/5559806