Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.

Biodiversity Citizen Science & Monitoring

The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is pleased to announce a new initiative focused on Understanding and Advancing Enabling Ecosystems for Open Science Hardware. This project is made possible ...

The transformation of research communication and access systems toward open, equitable, and sustainable models requires robust public policies based on a fine-grained articulation of public resources to strength digital infrastructures. Political support, funding streams, legal frameworks, enforcement mechanisms, infrastructures, human resources, time, consensus, and organizational capacity are the key instruments for effective grass routed open science policies. This proposal examines the role of National public policies in advancing Diamond OA, focusing on two main policy instruments: dedicated public funding streams and public based quality certification services for journals, Diamond institutional publishers and publishing platforms, and OA repositories. The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, issues these services since 2020 and 2007 respectively.

Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore

In natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs) like BERT, Claude, and GPT have become prominent, as they push the boundaries of language understanding and text generation. But have...

‘Excellence’ is omnipresent in the research ecosystem but the focus on excellence is increasingly controversial. This paper contributes to the excellence debate through an empirical study of how notio...

This study investigates the impact of nonhuman, AI-generated responses on data quality in a climate change survey conducted via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). As MTurk remains a popular platform...

What aspiring, junior, and senior data scientists should know to stay future-proof

Discover how Netflix's data science powers its personalized show recommendations.

El cambio climático es el mayor pirómano: revelan que hizo 40 veces más probables los megaincendios del verano

Jonathon Alexis Coates outlines how a constellation of static and dynamic indicators could provide a means for assessing the trustworthiness of published research

The PALOMERA project took stock of the European funder and institutional policy landscape for open access books and monographs. Its findings are a starting point for an important conversation.

This study investigates the correlation of citation impact with various open science indicators (OSI) within the French Open Science Monitor (FOSM), a dataset comprising approximately 900,000 publicat...

New algorithm could help scientists avoid publishing in shady titles

Institutional repositories (IRs) are essential in advancing Open Access and facilitating the dissemination of scholarly work. This systematic review examines the challenges faced by IRs in areas such...

A new survey of international funders finds recognition of the FAIR principles for research software lags well behind the FAIR framework for data management.