Have we all forgotten about SciHub?

Sci-Hub's founder proposes a colour-coded taxonomy that absorbs Black OA into legitimate Open Access. A more interesting idea than it sounds.

Are we ready to start rewarding researchers for Open data?

The State of Open Data 2024 pairs what researchers say with what they do, using Dimensions, data availability statements and the Citation Corpus.

Innovating Academia From The Outside - The Web3 Solution to Academia’s Peer Review Problem

ResearchHub pays for peer review in crypto. That terrifies plenty of researchers, but the rate of innovation on the platform is hard to ignore.

The Data Citation Corpus - tracking NIH funded open academic data

Joining the Wellcome-funded Data Citation Corpus to Dimensions to track how well the NIH open data policy is actually working in practice.

Some Gold Open Access (OA) Article Processing Charges (APC) data

A new Gold Open Access article processing charge dataset, and what it says about whether we can publish open access faster and cheaper.

OpenResearch WTF April 2024

April 2024: the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, DataCite's full public metadata release, and the month's open research news.

Open Access: Mo money, mo problems

From discovering PLOS ONE in a stem cell lab to today's article processing charges: how Open Access got expensive, and what that cost us.

OpenResearch WTF - March 2024

March 2024: the Gates Foundation drops APCs and mandates preprints, plus the first State of Open Data supplementary report.

OpenResearch WTF - February 2024

February 2024: eLife's new model one year on with 6,200 submissions and 1,300 reviewed preprints, plus the launch of TL;DR Shorts.

Making poorly described data FAIR-er using GenAI

A small experiment: can ChatGPT-4 improve the metadata, and therefore the FAIR-ness, of badly described datasets already published openly?