Do we actually need to write research papers at all?
If we are going to lean on the creativity and the cross-domain thinking of human researchers, then surely that should be where the human time goes.
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Open research
Essays on open scholarship: the policies, incentives and infrastructure that decide how research gets shared and reused.
The new era of going “Fast and Far” in research
A Nobel Prize in Chemistry went, in effect, to software. The old trade-off between small fast teams and large slow ones has stopped holding.
What parts of the academic knowledge creation & dissemination pipeline can we automate with AI?
Four working prototypes testing which parts of the research pipeline, from writing to review to publishing, can actually be automated.
AI Needs New Facts – The Value of Novel Scientific Research
Hearing Demis Hassabis at SXSW London: if models train on what already exists, genuinely novel experimental results become the scarce input.
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.
OpenResearch WTF - March 2024
March 2024: the Gates Foundation drops APCs and mandates preprints, plus the first State of Open Data supplementary report.
Who benefits when, from FAIR data? Part 3 - The Public
Part 3: the public fund research through taxes but cannot read most of it. What open academic data owes the people paying for it.
All of the knowledge for all of the machines
Two slow revolutions in publishing, blurred peer review and universal Open Access, decide what machines can legally read and actually trust.