Joerg Heber — Open Science Newsletter

by Joerg Heber on April 6, 2020October 9, 2020

Open science and the fight against COVID-19, barriers to open science in the Global South, financial woes at US universities, retractions in sociology

Issue 61

by Joerg Heber on March 30, 2020October 9, 2020

Royal Society temporarily removes all paywalls, Open-source ventilators against COVID-19, RIP Phil Anderson, COPE council members, eLife costs of publishing

Issue 60

by Joerg Heber on March 23, 2020October 9, 2020

COVID-19 and: PLOS, vaccines, free content by publishers, protocols on protocols.io; OA Switchboard RFI, European open access publishing platform

Issue 59

by Joerg Heber on March 16, 2020October 9, 2020

Open data and COVID, Springer Nature IPO cancelled again, underrepresentation of US African Americans in physics, Open Pharma position statement

Issue 58

by Joerg Heber on March 9, 2020October 30, 2020

What open science means for COVID-19 research, Michael J Fox Foundation adopts open access policy, Springer Nature going carbon neutral, PLOS redesign

Issue 57

by Joerg Heber on March 2, 2020October 9, 2020

China moving away from impact factors, Canada open science roadmap, UNESCO open science consultation, US court requires release of clinical trial outcomes

Issue 56

by Joerg Heber on February 24, 2020October 9, 2020

Intellectual property from inventions created by AI, OSTP consultation around OA, PLOS and University of California announce publishing agreement

Issue 55

by Joerg Heber on February 17, 2020November 2, 2020

Financial problems for preprint servers, TOP Factors launched, International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Betelgeuse changing shape.

Issue 54

by Joerg Heber on February 10, 2020November 2, 2020

Implementing open science at an entire institute, Nature and IOP trialling transparent peer review, code of conduct for data handling in genetics, The Craft of Science Writing

Issue 53

by Joerg Heber on February 3, 2020October 30, 2020

Sharing research on the (2019-nCoV) outbreak, journal transparency index, Creative Commons searching for a CEO, high-resolution images of the Sun

Issue 52

by Joerg Heber on January 27, 2020November 2, 2020

EBSCO partners with protocols.io and Code Ocean, cautions on open initiatives, OSF preprint charges, gender pay gap in New Zealand universities

Issue 51

by Joerg Heber on January 20, 2020November 2, 2020

Compliance deficits reporting clinical trials, AWS registry for open data, transparency in open access pricing, Registered Reports at PLOS ONE

Issue 50

by Joerg Heber on January 13, 2020November 2, 2020

Taylor&Francis buys F1000Research, Wuhan pneumonia outbreak, support letters for US executive mandate of green open access, Photonics Online Meetup, MDPI APC breakdown

Issue 49

by Joerg Heber on January 6, 2020October 9, 2020

Supporting self-correcting science, growth at OSF, Jisc analysis of their read and publish contract, results from a journal sting

Issue 48

by Joerg Heber on December 23, 2019October 30, 2020

Publishers’ response to green open access in the US raise concerns, Springer Nature and Plan S, Crossref annual report, rapid review of outbreak-related preprints, a new Executive Director for Dryad