Precarious careers: postdoctoral researchers in the Netherlands

As the number of postdoc researchers grows, studies in the Netherlands reveal that they experience high stress levels. This post discusses mental health and the main stressors: a lack of academic career prospects, publication and grant pressure, work-life imbalance and lack of institutional support.

Inge van der Weijden and Christine Teelken • April 21, 2020

Broadening the perspective on Covid-19

While the pandemic has led many to first seek biomedical and epidemiological expertise, we should be careful not to overlook inputs from different scientific fields that could provide important insights in the current crisis. Here are some early academic responses you might have missed.

Jochem Zuijderwijk • April 16, 2020 • 1 comment

Beyond Open Access articles: briefs can provide wider and faster access to scientific knowledge

Many journals are making research on COVID19 publicly available. This is valuable, but studies on usability of research suggest scientists need to develop media to quickly reach professional stakeholders. Diego Chavarro explains how briefs helped address faster the bud rot disease in palm oil.

Diego Chavarro • April 09, 2020

Pre-COVID-19 workshop on virtual meetings and conferences

While attending a workshop on virtual meetings in academia, our author Carole de Bordes would not have expected how relevant this topic would soon be. This blog post gives insights into some solutions for more sustainable conferencing and collaboration from today’s perspective.

Carole de Bordes • April 07, 2020

Scholarly Knowledge Graphs: A Call for Participation

The scholarly community has worked hard to make its publications machine-findable, but not the knowledge within these publications. This is changing thanks to projects such as the Open Research Knowledge Graph, and you can participate!

Markus Stocker • March 23, 2020

Launch of Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies

We are happy to announce that, as of today, the Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies (PREP) is available via www.responsiblejournals.org.

Wytske Hepkema, Serge Horbach and Willem Halffman • March 17, 2020

PIDapalooza 2020, Lisbon

At the end of January, I went to the PIDapalooza festival: the open festival of persistent identifiers. You can read everything about my experience in this post.

Zeynep Anli • March 13, 2020

Sorbonne declaration on research data rights

Earlier this year, representatives of nine university networks met at the Sorbonne to issue a declaration for the promotion of Open Data. But what, exactly, is Open Data, and how does it relate to the larger Open Science discussion?

André Brasil • March 12, 2020

Gender inequalities in science: Evidence and ideas from bibliometrics

Leiden University hosted the Gender Inequalities in Science workshop in October 2019 - organized by CWTS and Elsevier’s International Center for the Study of Research - where researchers from around the world discussed the gender gap in science and possible ways to counter this problem.

Lidia Carballo-Costa and Zeynep Anli • February 13, 2020