« Scholarly journals play a key role in the dissemination of research findings. However, little focus is given to the process of establishing new, credible journals and the obstacles faced in achieving this. This scoping review aimed to identify and describe existing recommendations for starting a biomedical scholarly journal. (…) »
« The state of open science needs to be monitored to track changes over time and identify areas to create interventions to drive improvements. In order to monitor open science practices, they first need to be well defined and operationalized. To reach consensus on what open science practices to monitor at…
« This briefing discusses the history and role of preprints in the biological sciences within the evolving open science landscape. The focus is on the explosive growth of preprints as a publishing model and the associated challenges of maintaining technical infrastructure and establishing sustainable business models. A preprint is a scholarly…
« Née de la réflexion d’acteurs de la communauté scientifique, la Science Ouverte (SO) a pour objectif de rendre les résultats de la recherche scientifique financée par des fonds publics (publications et données de recherche) accessibles à tous, directement, gratuitement et sans délai. L’ANRS|MIE est impliquée dans ce mouvement international qui…
« Objectives: To identify the engagement of health sciences librarians (HSLs) in open science (OS) through the delivery of library services, support, and programs for researchers.
Methods: We performed a scoping review guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and Joanna Briggs’ Manual for Scoping Reviews. Our search methods consisted of…
« Grants Include Funding Dedicated to Advancing Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives in Open Source.
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $11.1 million in funding for open source software projects that are critical to biomedicine, and $4.9 million to initiatives advancing the participation, retention, and leadership progression of contributors from…
« Open access publishing has been gaining momentum over recent years. A survey by the Wiley Network last year concluded that open data is “here to stay”, with over half of respondents believing that “open data is more important now than it was 12 months…
« Objective To estimate the financial costs paid by individual medical researchers from meeting the article processing charges (APCs) levied by open access journals in 2019.
Design Cross-sectional analysis.
Data sources Scopus was used to generate two random samples of researchers, the first with a senior author article…
« Measuring the impact of public health science or research is important especially when it comes to health outcomes. Achieving the desired health outcomes take time and may be influenced by several contributors, making attribution of credit to any one entity or effort problematic. Here we offer a science impact framework…
« Objectives: This small-scale study explores the current state of connections between open data and open access (OA) articles in the life sciences.
Methods: This study involved 44 openly available life sciences datasets from the Illinois Data Bank that had 45 related research articles. For each article, I gathered the OA…
