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Types of AI Agents and Their Applications in Academic Research
AI agents have the potential to revolutionise how researchers approach complex problems and manage information in academic research. These intelligent systems can automate tasks, analyse vast datasets, and even generate hypotheses, significantly accelerating the pace of discovery and innovation.
AI agents can be categorised into different types, based on their
Have we all forgotten about SciHub?
A Preprint was published on Preprints.org at the end of November by SciHub founder Alexandra Elbakyan.
From Black Open Access to Open Access of Color: Accepting the Diversity of Approaches towards Free Science - [v2][v2]
It describes an interesting idea—using more OA colors to replace illegal OA,
Are we ready to start rewarding researchers for Open data?
The State of Open Data 2024: Special Report Bridging policy and practice in data sharing has gone live today. In it, we explored global trends in data sharing practices, focusing on bridging the gap between policy and practice.
For the first time, the report incorporates not only survey data but
Innovating Academia From The Outside - The Web3 Solution to Academia’s Peer Review Problem
ResearchHub is a platform for open science that has been building an impressive tech stack since 2020, where users can review, publish, and collaborate on scientific research. The primary novelty that seems to interest and terrify researchers in equal measure is the fact that it is a crypto based project,
The Data Citation Corpus - tracking NIH funded open academic data
By combining this dataset with Dimensions.ai data in Google Big Query, we we're able to add more dimensions to the dataset (pardon the pun), such as funder or institution.
This allows us to track how well things like the NIH open data policy is encouraging linking to datasets from papers.
Some Gold Open Access (OA) Article Processing Charges (APC) data
Open research is essential. Open Access is essential. My question as always is whether we can be doing this in a manner that is faster and cheaper? Is this the most efficient way to publish open access research. The new data will help ignite more conversations like this. Watch this space.
OpenResearch WTF April 2024
Policy
Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
More than 40 organisations have committed to being more transparent about how they share information about their research processes and outputs.
The Barcelona Declaration, released April 16, calls for open research information—or metadata—to be the norm. Signatories include funders and higher
Open Access: Mo money, mo problems
At the start of my PhD in Stem Cell Biology, I was not aware of Open Access despite Open Access journals being a thing since the late 1980s. arXiv came along in the early ‘90s, followed by PubMed Central and the first commercial OA journal, Biomed Central in the late
OpenResearch WTF - March 2024
Content
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2025 Open Access Policy Refresh
No APCs!
Preprints required
“We will work to support an Open Access system and infrastructure that ensures articles and data are readily available to a wider range of audiences”
Huge
Figshare, Digital Science and Springer Nature Publish