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.
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Academia
How the academic system actually works — incentives, careers, funding, and the institutions sitting in between.
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.
Who benefits when, from FAIR data? Part 2 – Machines
AI and machine learning can be used to create more detailed, FAIR-er datasets to be consumed by the machines.
Who benefits when, from FAIR data? Part 1 – Researchers
Part 1: seven years on from the FAIR principles, what do researchers themselves actually get back from making their data reusable?
Halfway to happiness — what the OSTP update means in the grand scheme
The OSTP memo on federally funded research is real progress built on decades of SPARC advocacy. It is also only half the journey.
Academic Research Data. Is it being cited?
Daily citation updates across Figshare show which research outputs actually attract citations, and why datasets still trail papers badly.
Academic Data Curation: Who checks? Who Pays? How Much?
The research publishing system works. We get new drugs and new breakthrough discoveries every year. The goal of FAIR research data is to optimise this.