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EOSI keeps an eye on changes in the fields of Open Science, FAIR data principles, and others, and directs any interested parties to important updates:

• Elsevier have a webinar about discussing how to align Open Science with the rewards system in research. Good afternoon watching.
• There’s a balance to be struck between Intellectual Property Rights and Open Science, and the European Association of Research and Technology Organisation (EARTO) have published this policy paper to try and strike that balance. 
• This piece argues that Pharma companies should publish more research Open Access, which would be a welcome change as they fund around 50% of all biomedical research – much of which is never reported.

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EOSI keeps an eye on changes in the fields of Open Science, FAIR data principles, and others, and directs any interested parties to important updates:

• A great wee argument against impact factors, and a small step related to CVs to counter them, here.
• This article explains some of the faults with the current system of peer review. A good read!
• Significantly: The government has published a policy paper in which they pledge to “mandate open publication and strongly incentivise open data sharing where appropriate.” Although it’s form the department of business, energy, and industrial strategy, and has its ‘subtle’ politicking, it talks about the whole of science.

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EOSI keeps an eye on changes in the fields of Open Science, FAIR data principles, and others, and directs any interested parties to important updates:

• CVS’ Ben Thomas has written this piece on Open Science as an introduction and to argue in favour of adopting its principles sooner rather than later.
• The government has released this policy paper  to “mandate open publication and strongly incentivise open data sharing where appropriate, so that reproducibility is enabled, and knowledge is shared and spread collaboratively.”
• DORA has published a report on its activities in 2019, including 713 new organisational sign ups.

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EOSI keeps an eye on changes in the fields of Open Science, FAIR data principles, and others, and directs any interested parties to important updates:

• This is a punchy Twitter thread which quickly goes over the issues with an infamous current publisher, and that Open Science is the answer. The kind of thing to send to someone who isn’t really aware of the community fight for open science – so good to share with friends!
• Eurodoc has launched a survey prior to the European Commission launching Open Research Europe (ORE; their open access publishing platform) later this year, to give direct information as to some of what will be needed. Always worth chipping in so they build the right platform!
• Open Life Science are recruiting for open science ambassadors, which recruit ECRs and provide a 16 week training course (Sept-Dec 2020; I don’t believe it’s full time) with a mentor and cohort-sessions. Definitely worth getting into if you’ve been thinking about Open Science but are not really sure how to get involved and would like a mentor’s support.

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EOSI keeps an eye on changes in the fields of Open Science, FAIR data principles, and others, and directs any interested parties to important updates:

• Underline.io is an open repository of lectures & conference recordings worth checking out. It’s quite new and still growing, adding more disciplines. 
• Springer Nature have signed DORA for it’s entire journalistic portfolio, a great sign and step forward as it’s the largest publisher so far to do so!
• King’s College London is hosting an online Open Research conference on 11th June. Lots of valuable sessions which can be dipped in and out of, certainly worth attending. 

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EOSI keeps an eye on changes in the fields of Open Science, FAIR data principles, and others, and directs any interested parties to important updates:

• Data Colada published an easy to read post with 8 tips (and examples) on how to make open research more findable and understandable. Perfect for getting going, can read it all within 3 minutes. 
• Another big charity funder, CRUK, are supporting PlanS & are adopting immediate open access from Jan 2022 (here).
• One of the very few upsides of the Covid19 lockdown is that people have more time to spend working on Citizen Science, especially since April was Citizen Science month! It’s always worth thinking about, especially if you’ve got a huge data set that would take too long to go through, but might might a citizen science project on websites such as https://www.zooniverse.org/. Some interesting research has come out of citizen science – worth spending some time helping other projects when bored, or putting a project up yourself.

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EOSI keeps an eye on changes in the fields of Open Science, FAIR data principles, and others, and directs any interested parties to important updates:

• The European Quality in Preclinical Data (EQIPD) study group has produced a systematic review of experimental design, conduct, analysis, and reporting guidelines relating to preclinical animal research. More specifically, it considers the various guidelines and what it means for internal validity of a study.
• Tailor & Francis have produced a mixed message in response to the cOalitionS criteria update following public consultation. They state they support Open Access, and are looking to transition to a full open access model. However, they bring up that cOalitionS will only be offered on hybrid journals until the end of 2024 and then say they can’t commit to annual growth rates – potentially suggesting they may not have transitioned to an open access model by then. We’ll have to see what happens.
• Cambridge University Press has launched Cambridge Open Engage, for preprints, presentation, posters, conferences papers, and grey literature. 

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EOSI keeps an eye on changes in the fields of Open Science, FAIR data principles, and others, and directs any interested parties to important updates. This issue, we’d like to highlight:

• PLOS Biology launches new article types ‘discovery reports’ and ‘update articles’, intended to describe novel findings rapidly upon discovery and add mechanisms, physiological relevance, & other insights to the discovery report, respectively. Multiple update articles will be able to be linked to an initial discovery report. The intention is logically to encourage new findings out ASAP.
• The creator of the H-index has described some of the problems with it, such as incentivising researchers to work on ‘hot’ topics, and not picking up research which deviates from mainstream research narratives.
• One study looks at how journals’ communication & transparency of data policies could be made more effective. It concludes with recommendations which it hopes will increase compliance. 

The best way to get more updates is to follow EOSI on Twitter. Additionally, if you’re interested in getting involved in EOSI then please send an email to Ben Thomas at ben.thomas@ed.ac.uk, or message them on Twitter.

EOSI keeps an eye on changes in the fields of Open Science, FAIR data principles, and others, and directs any interested parties to important updates. This issue, we’d like to highlight:

• Covid 19 is still causing people to highlight the downsides of closed science and prompting calls for Open Science. Again, bit of a silver lining to a very dark cloud. E.G. here, here, and here. There are also a lot more Open Science & covid examples!
• F1000 research has been awarded the European Commission’s contract for setting up a new peer reviewed open access publishing platform. Hopefully the platform will be live in early 2021.
• Bodies such as Wiley, F1000 Research, Future Science Group, and now also PLOS have endorsed the Open Pharma Position Statement on Open Access. 

The best way to get more updates is to follow EOSI on Twitter. Additionally, if you’re interested in getting involved in EOSI then please send an email to Ben Thomas at ben.thomas@ed.ac.uk, or message them on Twitter.

EOSI keeps an eye on changes in the fields of Open Science, FAIR data principles, and others, and directs any interested parties to important updates. This issue, we’d like to highlight:

• UNESCO has launched a consultation, as they intend to ‘build a coherent vision of Open Science’. Could be interesting to see how it develops, and worth chipping in with your opinion!
• The spread of Coronovirus is causing people to highlight the downsides of closed science, and has prompted calls – from scientists & non specialists – for & support of open science. Bit of a silver lining to a very dark cloud. E.G. here, here, here, here.
• A bit of a longer read, but Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Europe have released their 5th analysis report on open science policies in Europe. A longer read, with some of it in depth, but very informative!

The best way to get more updates is to follow EOSI on Twitter. Additionally, if you’re interested in getting involved in EOSI then please send an email to Ben Thomas at ben.thomas@ed.ac.uk, or message them on Twitter.