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FORRT Summaries

The FORRT community has prepared 100+ summaries of Open and Reproducible Science literature. The purpose of these summaries is to reduce some of the burden on educators looking to incorporate open and reproducible research principles into their …

Opening up understanding of neurodiversity: A call for applying participatory and open scholarship practices

Recent movements towards a more open, intersectional, and inclusive academia (Birhane & Guest, 2020) focus on the need to address traditional power imbalances detrimentally affecting under-represented individuals (e.g., women: Pownall …

Meta Docenia

We work to make the production, communication, and application of scientific and technical knowledge equitable globally. To advance innovation with a local perspective that responsibly builds scientific and technical capacities through the …

Promoting Civility in Formal And Informal Open Science Contexts

The open-science movement is driven by the desire to increase research transparency, accessibility, and equity in conducting, reporting, and sharing research. Because open science aims to enable access and inclusion, and because incivility impedes …

Scholarly Publishing as a Global Endeavor: Leveraging Open Source Software for Bibliodiversity

Each year, the Public Knowledge Project* (PKP) posts a very large, and rather dry, dataset at the Harvard Dataverse Project. This open data provides a summary of the known installations of PKP’s open source publishing software around the world (OJS …

Ten simple rules for pushing boundaries of inclusion at academic events

Inclusion at academic events is facing increased scrutiny as the communities these events serve raise their expectations for who can practically attend. Active efforts in recent years to bring more diversity to academic events have brought progress …

How UK science is failing Black researchers — in nine stark charts

Data show that Black scientists’ representation dwindles at each stage of academia in the United Kingdom. This article is the first in a Nature series examining data on ethnic or racial diversity in science in different countries.

The Race in Academia Collective

At present, academia is a site of colonial production of knowledge where the subject of knowledge, represented by the white European man, produces scientific knowledge about his racialised others. This European perspective is considered to be neutral …

Open Science Practices in Psychiatric Genetics: A Primer

Open science ensures that research is transparently reported and freely accessible for all to assess and collaboratively build on. Psychiatric genetics has led among the health sciences in implementing some open science practices in common study …

School Psychology Annual Journal Update: Revising Open Science Standards

School Psychology is an outlet for research on children, youth, educators, and families that has scientific, practice, and policy implications for education and educational systems. In this editorial, annual updates are provided regarding journal …
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