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December 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📣 Submit to our track 'Making Science Better?' at the STS NL Conference which will take place in Twente from April 15 to 17, 2026! More details in the link below.
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
One imaginary sees the scientific literature as a gigantic library, with texts to be read. Another sees it as a database, with facts to be mined. Our analysis clarifies contrasting expectations informing current publishing innovations, and their epistemic and political risks.
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
The Library and the Database: Contrasting Expectations in Two Imaginaries for the Research Literature - Minerva
Two competing imaginaries inform the current wave of innovations in research publishing: one that perceives ‘the literature’ as a library of research accounts, and one that sees it as a gigantic datab...
doi.org
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
One imaginary sees the scientific literature as a gigantic library, with texts to be read. Another sees it as a database, with facts to be mined. Our analysis clarifies contrasting expectations informing current publishing innovations, and their epistemic and political risks.
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
Do journalists correct the news if their scientific source articles get retracted? Barely, although quality media do it a little more.
Valinciute, Auste, and Willem Halffman. ‘Do Journalists Update Retracted Science News?’ Journalism Practice, Routledge, 2025, 1–23. doi.org/10.1080/1751....
Valinciute, Auste, and Willem Halffman. ‘Do Journalists Update Retracted Science News?’ Journalism Practice, Routledge, 2025, 1–23. doi.org/10.1080/1751....
Do Journalists Update Retracted Science News?
In recent years, retractions of scientific papers have been rising. Most retractions invalidate scientific claims and should not be used as sources of information. Retractions may directly affect k...
doi.org
October 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Do journalists correct the news if their scientific source articles get retracted? Barely, although quality media do it a little more.
Valinciute, Auste, and Willem Halffman. ‘Do Journalists Update Retracted Science News?’ Journalism Practice, Routledge, 2025, 1–23. doi.org/10.1080/1751....
Valinciute, Auste, and Willem Halffman. ‘Do Journalists Update Retracted Science News?’ Journalism Practice, Routledge, 2025, 1–23. doi.org/10.1080/1751....
Announcing Colloquium: Problematic Science. With presentations by @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @stanvanpelt.bsky.social. RU, 14 oct.
September 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Announcing Colloquium: Problematic Science. With presentations by @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @stanvanpelt.bsky.social. RU, 14 oct.