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OPERAS supports Open Book Futures project to expand Open Access infrastructures

by Lore Caliman

operas.hypotheses.org/6325

We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet

Large language models are full of security vulnerabilities, yet they’re being embedded into tech products on a vast scale.

By Melissa Heikkilä

technologyreview.com/2023/04/0

New blog post: The Rogue Scholar is now open for business. This week I officially launched the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The MVP includes 20 blogs and about 300 blog posts. doi.org/10.53731/z9v2s-bh329

Collaborative models for OA book publishers (Version 2.0)

Błaszczyńska, Marta; Melinščak Zlodi, Iva; Morka, Agata; Proudman, Vanessa; Stone, Graham

zenodo.org/record/7780754#.ZCv

#OpenAccess #OAbooks

Join our team – we're recruiting for 4️⃣ roles!

🔹 Product Lead
🔹 Engagement Coordinator, Infrastructure
🔹 Research Data Analyst
🔹 Django Developer (part-time)

Find out more + apply at investinopen.org/jobs

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We're also thrilled to welcome Katherine Skinner as our new Research Lead!✨

Katherine (through her work @Educopia + beyond) has been the driving force for efforts IOI has sought to build on...

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EMBO is looking for a policy officer "to develop and implement activities on research integrity and good scientific practice, research assessment, , career structures, and the composition of the research workforce."
Deadline: 12 April 2023

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New UK law will require all clinical trials to rapidly report results

The UK government will introduce a legal requirement to make public the results of all clinical trials within 12 months of trial completion. Any company or university breaking the law will be refused permission to start new trials, the UK drug regulator announced on Tuesday.

In addition, the new law will make it mandatory to pre-register trials and to share their outcomes with participants. transparimed.org/single-post/u

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

Remember what happened with the Tower of Babel? Same type of deal.

wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-f

Hot off the press! The final conference programme has been published for Open Repositories 2023 at Stellenbosch. Lots of lovely looking papers in the pipeline.... 😀

or2023.openrepositories.org/pr #OR2023 #OpenRepo2023 #repositories #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenData #DigitalLibraries

Really excited to be working on this £5.8 million #OAbooks infrastructure project -- which will enable a major expansion of the @copim infrastructures and provide a huge boost to community-owned and led #OAbooks publishing:

COPIM announcement: copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-book

@OpenBookPublish announcement: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/o

#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure

Scholarly communication in crisis: Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) webinar, 19 April, 4:30pm BST, with panellists Adam Day, @briannosek and @deevybee, with co-chairs @catmacOA and Emma Wilson.

More info: oaspa.org/scholarly-communicat

#ScholComm #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #Webinar #PaperMills #OpenScience #OpenResearch

There are plenty of examples of #OpenPeerReview out there now. Does anyone know of a study looking at the quality of review reports? #ScholarlyPublishing

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