« Software repository mining is the foundation for many empirical software engineering studies. The collection and analysis of detailed data can be challenging, especially if data shall be shared to enable replicable research and open science practices. SmartSHARK is an ecosystem that supports replicable and reproducible research based on software repository…
« (…) This paper provides an introduction to open science and related reforms in the form of an annotated reading list of seven peer-reviewed articles (…). Written for researchers and students – particularly in psychological science – it highlights and introduces seven topics: understanding open science; open access; open data, materials,…
« Predatory journals are Open Access journals of highly questionable scientific quality. Such journals pretend to use peer review for quality assurance, and spam academics with requests for submissions, in order to collect author payments. In recent years predatory journals have received a lot of negative media. While much has been…
« Le groupe de travail « Fouille de textes et analyse de données » du Comité pour la science ouverte émet des recommandations sur les bonnes pratiques pour l’analyse de données. Elles portent sur l’acquisition et le partage des documents, l’utilisation de logiciels de gestion, d’exploration ou d’analyse, l’exploitation des résultats et la…
« Depuis le 1er janvier, le CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) est entré en vigueur aux États-Unis. Ce texte adopté en 2018 par l’État de Californie en réaction au scandale Cambridge Analytica a fait l’objet d’une large couverture par la presse américaine, qui…
« As 2019 winds down, the DORA steering committee and advisory board wanted to highlight the ways research assessment reform has advanced in the last year. From new data on assessment policies to the development of new tools, the scholarly community is taking action to improve research assessment in concrete ways.…
« The largest scholarly publishers today are driven by one major near-term strategic concern — to reduce leakage and thereby bolster the value of the subscription bundle. But while they work belatedly to address this priority through Seamless Access (RA21), GetFTR, and even…
« Par 13 arrêts du 6 décembre 2019, le Conseil d’État fixe les conditions dans lesquelles doit être respecté le droit au déréférencement sur internet prévu par le RGPD. Il est ainsi la première juridiction française à livrer, à Google et à la Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL),…
« The Core Scientific Dataset (CSD) model with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) serialization is presented as a lightweight, portable, and versatile standard for intra- and interdisciplinary scientific data exchange. (…) »
« (…) This study is meant to shed light on the various determinants ofAPC. Based on data from the OpenAPC Initiative, the Directory of Open Access Journals,the Journal Impact Factor and the Essential Science Indicators of Web of Science, weemploy ANOVA and multivariate regressions. The results show that market power plays…
