Open Update

In this week's episode, we talk about the newly released General Index, the SSRN Author impact reports, and a new inclusivity policy for PLOS publications.

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Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

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Healthy environment = human right

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102582

Almost $1,000,000 for Humanities Commons

https://cal.msu.edu/news/humanities-commons-receives-971000-mellon-grant-to-support-its-expansion/

30% open abstracts

https://opencitations.wordpress.com/2021/10/06/the-initiative-for-open-abstracts-celebrating-our-first-anniversary/

The 8TB General Index

https://archive.org/details/GeneralIndex

SSRN $49.95 certificate

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3919917

PLOS Inclusivity in Global Research

https://theplosblog.plos.org/2021/09/announcing-a-new-plos-policy-on-inclusion-in-global-research/

In this week's episode, we talk about the Internet Archive's 25th anniversary, a toolkit to foster open science practices, and a survey of how institutions assess open science practices.

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Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

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Graham Stone missing and found

https://twitter.com/UKSG/status/1443851274676588550

https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status/1443893077601554462?s=12

AIMOS Donation

https://aimos.community/news

JASPER preservation

https://blog.doaj.org/2021/09/29/jasper-preserving-open-access-journals-forever/

Internet Archive turns 25

https://wayforward.archive.org/IA2046/

NAS toolkit

https://www.nap.edu/catalog/26308/developing-a-toolkit-for-fostering-open-science-practices-proceedings-of

Open science assessment practices survey

https://osf.io/z4py9/

In this week's episode, we talk about a decline in open source contributions, the open access market, and gender discrepancies in online sharing of research.

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Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

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Peer review boycott

https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/

Peer review study

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09774

Preprint rejected for self-plagiarism

https://twitter.com/bat__go/status/1442418539147767814

ResearchGate takedowns

https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/a-note-on-recent-content-takedowns

Italian Reproducibility Network

https://www.itrn.org/itrn-scientific-events/itrn-kickoff-event

Open Source study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0257192

Gender inequities in online sharing

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/39/e2102945118

OA Market

https://oaspa.org/developing-a-healthy-and-diverse-oa-market-reflections/

In this week's episode, we talk about team science and animal testing in research.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

Mixing: Bjorn Uyens

Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

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Open Science Conference 2022

https://www.open-science-conference.eu/calls2022/

Blackboard merges with Anthology

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/09/14/blackboard-merge-anthology-creating-massive-ed-tech-company

UKRN Funding

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/september/open-research-funding.htmlTeamscience > labscience

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02486-7

European Parliament resolution on animal testing

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210910IPR11926/meps-demand-eu-action-plan-to-end-the-use-of-animals-in-research-and-testing

NC3Rs

https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resources

In this week's episode, we talk about the new study on open science momentum in Europe and further developments at the Peer Community In initiative.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

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Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

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Open Publishing Festival

https://openpublishingfest.org/

14 year submission

https://twitter.com/adamssean2/status/1437334479476035584

OpenCitations adds 92 million

https://opencitations.wordpress.com/2021/09/09/92-million-new-citations-added-to-coci/

NWO Open Access

https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/more-eighty-percent-publications-funded-nwo-and-zonmw-open-access

EU Open Science

https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/new-report-confirms-positive-momentum-eu-open-science-2021-sep-06_en

New Peer Communities In

https://infections.peercommunityin.org/https://ecotoxenvchem.peercommunityin.org/

Peer Community Journal

https://peercommunityin.org/pc-journal/

We're back from summer break!

In this week's episode, we talk about some of the highlights of the open science news over the past two months during our summer break. Did we miss anything? Send your tips to [email protected]!

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

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Artwork: Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

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APA endorses TOP guidelines

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/resources/transparency-openness-promotion

Sci-Hub 10 year anniversary

https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1434356217208623106?s=12

Retractions due to hacked email

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/08/26/guest-editor-says-journal-will-retract-dozens-of-inappropriate-papers-after-his-email-was-hacked/

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/25/cybersecurity-101-guide-password-manager

Gendered nature of authorship

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe4639

Elsevier pay gap

https://twitter.com/jesswade/status/1429518944386306063?s=12

OSS in EU

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-publishes-study-impact-open-source-european-economy

Data sharing across fields

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00981-0

COVID on campus

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/08/18/professor-resigns-tenured-position-citing-his-universitys-fall-covid-19-plan

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/08/13/cornell-wont-approve-disability-related-requests-teach-online

In this week's episode, we talk about what happens when prepaid open access publishing hits its limit, how registered reports perform in practice, and text recycling.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

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UN Open Science Conference

https://www.un.org/en/library/OS21

Belgian return stolen art

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/06/22/belgie-neemt-radicale-stap-roofkunst-wordt-weer-eigendom-van-congo-a4048305

Computational reproducibility

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0251194

Utrecht University denounces Impact Factor

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01759-5

Prepaid Open Access

https://web.archive.org/web/20210625130133/https://www.rug.nl/library/news/210624-springer-nature-oa-deal-approaching-annual-quota

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/free-open-access-publications-with-springer-temporarily-unavailable

Registered Report quality

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01142-4

Text recycling

https://textrecycling.org/resources/best-practices-for-researchers/

In this week's episode, we talk about some of the legal risks for a Creative Commons license and how Arcadia fund is bringing out the big money for open infrastructure.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

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Legal judgments

https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/new-home-for-judgments

Fast Grants

https://future.a16z.com/what-we-learned-doing-fast-grants/

Science NFT

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01642-3

Tackling racism at Wellcome

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01582-y

CC BY 2.0

https://karlhodge.medium.com/photo-rights-for-journalism-students-a-cautionary-tale-269cfd4459a5

Arcadia funds IOI

https://investinopen.org/blog/ioi-arcadia-funding/

IOI mailing list

https://investinopen.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=43ae666f7daca72d4c12a114b&id=ab755f1146

This week, we talk about centralization on the internet, a major and exciting grant for the organization OurResearch, and how the richest of the rich are taxed (spoiler: very little).

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

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Thomson Reuters ICE contracts

https://www.bcgeu.ca/70_of_independent_thomson_reuters_shareholders_demand_action_on_human_rights_risks_related_to_ice_contracts

Human Genome, completed

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/the-human-genome-is-finally-complete/619172/

https://github.com/marbl/CHM13

People's vaccine

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/peoples_vaccine_2021_loc/

Funding for OurResearch

https://blog.ourresearch.org/arcadia-2021-grant/

Fastly down

https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cn-fastly

ProPublica reporting on taxes paid by the richest of the rich

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax#1071196

https://www.propublica.org/article/you-may-be-paying-a-higher-tax-rate-than-a-billionaire#1071336

https://www.propublica.org/article/why-we-are-publishing-the-tax-secrets-of-the-001#1071311

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-short-form-a-quick-guide-to-what-we-uncovered#1071284

This week, we talk about  the brain drain in changing science, the new Swiss code of conduct enshrining basic open practices, and the US Supreme Court ruling that could have helped Aaron Swartz.

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PEOPLE behind the podcast

Narrator: Chris Hartgerink

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Twitter blocked in Nigeria

https://netblocks.org/reports/twitter-restricted-in-nigeria-after-deletion-of-presidents-tweet-aAwro08M

Consultation on Database Directive

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13045-Data-Act-&-amended-rules-on-the-legal-protection-of-databases_en

Open Access book city of Amsterdam

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/amsterdam-residents-offered-free-book-on-citys-links-with-slavery

https://www.amsterdam.nl/het-slavernijverleden-leeft/

Brain drain 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/how-do-you-know/202106/the-science-reform-brain-drain

Swiss Code of Conduct 

https://zenodo.org/record/4707560#.YLzReTaA4-Q

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/06/04/switzerland-classifies-unjustified-self-citation-violation-scientific-misconduct

Supreme Court CFAA 

https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/1400453188424134673?s=20

Documentary Aaron Swartz's life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6Fzbgs_Lg