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Eleven Strategies for Making Reproducible Research and Open Science Training the Norm at Research Institutions

Across disciplines, researchers increasingly recognize that open science and reproducible research practices may accelerate scientific progress by allowing others to reuse research outputs and by promoting rigorous research that is more likely to …

Elsevier Title Level Pricing: Dissecting the Bowl of Spaghetti

INTRODUCTION This study will explore the issue of pricing opacity associated with prices paid by academic libraries that have recently unbundled from the Elsevier Big Deal journal package. Additionally, this study will provide metrics for assessing …

Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: a bank of lesson plans and resources

Recently, there has been a growing emphasis on embedding open and reproducible approaches into research. One essential step in accomplishing this larger goal is to embed such practices into undergraduate and postgraduate research training. However, …

Equity, transparency, and accountability: Open science for the 21st century

Knowledge is essential to saving lives and improving wellbeing. The term open science has been applied to improving the transparency of knowledge generation, but open science also has the potential to address many of the problems of inequity, …

European Sociological Association journals European Societies and European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology move to diamond open access at the MIT Press

The MIT Press is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking partnership with the European Sociological Association (ESA), marking a significant step forward in the world of academic open access publishing. We are proud to welcome European Societies and …

Evading Open Science: The Black Box of Student Data Collection

While Open Science has arguably initiated positive changes at some stages of the research process (e.g., increasing transparency through preregistration), problematic behaviors during data collection are still almost impossible to detect and pose a …

Evaluation of Transparency and Openness Guidelines in Physical Therapy Journals

Objective The goals of this study were to evaluate the extent that physical therapy journals support open science research practices by adhering to the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines and to assess the relationship between journal …

Experimenter as automaton; experimenter as human: Exploring the position of the researcher in scientific research

The crisis of confidence in the social sciences has many corollaries which impact our research practices. One of these is a push towards maximal and mechanical objectivity in quantitative research. This stance is reinforced by major journals and …

FABBS Open Science Statement

The Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) is a coalition of 29 scientific societies and 60 academic departments that come together to advance the rigor, impact, equity, and accessibility of our disciplines. To these …

FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Takes New Action to Crack Down on Junk Fees in Higher Education

Reforms would save students and borrowers billions in unnecessary fees and improve the college and loan repayment experience. Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new steps to crack down on hidden junk fees as part of President …