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When you share a preprint in PsyArXiv it becomes available for a worldwide audience to read, share, and cite. Readers may access your work via its DOI, by searching the PsyArXiv site, or by discoverin...

Reclaim scientific discourse with federated digital spaces where researchers shape their own conversations, data, and collaborations

Integrating open and reproducible science into higher education

This presentation introduces how a relatively new, non-profit initiative – the Open Book Collective (OBC) – is furthering open science in a closing world via its diamond approach to funding open access (OA) book publishers. These range from small scholar-led publishers (e.g. Open Book Publishers, African Minds) to larger university presses (e.g. LSE Press, Leuven University Press). The OBC also addresses key gaps in the research infrastructures required for OA books to flourish, by providing funding to its service provider members (OAPEN, PKP, and Thoth Open Metadata).

Scholarly communications is in the midst of a crisis of confidence and capacity and is turning to automation as a solution.

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understa...