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Mark Hahnel

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

OpenResearch WTF - February 2024

Content eLife’s New Model: One year on eLife's new publishing model, a year after its launch, has led to over 6,200 submissions, with more than 1,300 reviewed preprints published. This model emphasises speed and transparency, combining preprints with expert peer reviews and assessments to facilitate

Making poorly described data FAIR-er using GenAI

This small experiment looks at whether Generative AI tools, in this case ChatGPT 4 can improve the metadata (and thus FAIR-ness) of poorly described published datasets.