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New post: Ten simple rules for scholarly blogging The fragmentation of social media and the rise of Generative Artificial intelligence have renewed the importance of scholarly blogs. doi.org/10.54900/xn5...
Ten simple rules for scholarly blogging
The fragmentation of social media and the rise of Generative Artificial intelligence (AI) have renewed the importance of scholarly blogs. Similar to preprints, blogs enable researchers to communicate ...
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Research institutions do not support repositories, PID systems, and metadata infrastructure simply as narrow services purchased one use at a time. They support them as shared institutional capacity. Read more in @chodacki.bsky.social new post on Upstream: upstream.force11.org/why-institut...
Not the Right Fit: How Transactional Infrastructure Models Clash with Institutional Realities
Many scholarly infrastructure business models fit institutions poorly. They tie cost to transactions, outputs, or rising use in ways that make adoption harder to sustain over time. That is a problem f...
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What is the future of data management plans? A new post on @upstreamblog.bsky.social exploring both the positive and negative aspects of changes at NIH and NSF. And suggests a path to balance burden reduction with thoughtful planning. doi.org/10.54900/fbq...
What is the Future of Data Management Plans?
Recent developments from major US funders suggest a shift in how the vision of machine-actionable data management plans is being implemented. This post reviews the positive and negative aspects of the...
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New community-driven typology of data uses across disciplines and recommendations on how to capture data use types in metadata. @force11.bsky.social @makedatacount.bsky.social doi.org/10.54900/37x...
Typology of Data Uses: A tool to capture consistent, actionable insights into the uses of data
The development of practices and policies in support of data sharing has resulted in a growing number of open outputs being published every year. This has been followed by an increasing interest in un...
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FORCE11@force11.bsky.social · 4mo agoAs open data grows, so does the need to understand how it’s actually used. This FORCE11 community-driven typology offers a shared framework across disciplines and stakeholders and a path toward more meaningful assessment. @upstreamblog.bsky.social @makedatacount.bsky.social doi.org/10.54900/37x...
Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online. New post on @upstreamblog.bsky.social! Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? doi.org/10.54900/2pn...
Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online
Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...
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We can’t advance open science if we don’t measure it. Read new post on Upstream from Iratxe Puebla and Eleonora Colangelo on the Open Science Monitoring Initiative's survey to identify current monitoring practices among journals, repositories and other providers. doi.org/10.54900/5gj...
Monitoring open science with scholarly content providers: what OSMI’s survey tells us
For open science to advance, it is essential to monitor its practices to meaningfully assess whether they are achieving their intended goals for research and society. The Open Science Monitoring Initi...
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FORCE11@force11.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew @upstreamblog.bsky.social post, "Monitoring open science with scholarly content providers: what OSMI’s survey tells us," on the Open Science Monitoring Initiative's survey to identify current monitoring practices among journals, repositories and other providers. doi.org/10.54900/5gj...
New on Upstream: From Promise to Precarity: The Plight of International Postdocs - When Will Academia Act? International postdocs are essential to research, yet too often face insecurity & systemic inequities. It’s time for collective action: doi.org/10.54900/w8z... #academia #postdocs #force11
From Promise to Precarity: The Plight of International Postdocs — When Will Academia Act?
Postdocs often relocate globally, facing cultural barriers, visa issues, and discrimination alone. Without strong support networks, they're treated as disposable despite being vital to research. We mu...
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“Implications, there are a few. Trying to make sense of all of this" New @upstreamblog.bsky.social post from @dannykay68.bsky.social - Recent shifts across the scholarly information ecosystem & what means for libraries, infrastructure providers, and open science advocates: doi.org/10.54900/6hp...
Implications, there are a few. Trying to make sense of all of this
How do we make sense of the implications of current geopolitical, financial and technological volatility? What impact will all of this have on the relationship between libraries and publishers, and li...
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How does open science hold up in times of crisis? @jeroenbosman.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social explore this in a sharp post on Upstream: doi.org/10.54900/pqr... They outline threats, map types of resilience, and remind us: open science isn’t just at risk…it’s also part of the solution.
The resilience of open science in times of crisis
The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...
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