It’s 1 January 2021. Dozing in bed, floating in that warm & fuzzy limbo between dreams and reality, and that’s where it hits him. That lightbulb moment. (At last!) He sits bolt-upright in bed, punches the air and shouts: “You know what, honey, I’m gonna start a papermill!”. She snorts awake; reluctantly conscious. Oh no. Not again. Not another hare-brained scheme… “…and, by the end of next year, we’ll publish 20,000 fake papers!”.
The Research and Teaching Group Information Management is conducting a survey on the topic of recording publication costs at research performing institutions in Germany.
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!rOpenSci HQ Community call recording: Navigating the R ecosystem using R-universe Video and resources. Learn more about R-Universe and how you can use it to improve your R package development workflow.
At work I’ve been using Quarto quite a bit for website and books for work projects.
Image credit: Viri Gutiérrez, Lummi By Michelle Barker, Sandra Gesing, Rowland Mosbergen, Uwe Schmitt, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz September 2024 The RSE Worldwide sessions at this year’s Research Software Engineering Conference (RSECon) in the UK continue to address the importance of connecting these emerging communities with the global research software community.
One of the joys of posting a preprint is seeing that people are viewing, downloading and (hopefully) reading your paper. On bioRxiv you can check out the statistics for your paper in the metrics tab. We posted a preprint recently and it clocked up over 1,000 views in the first day or so. This made me wonder: is that a lot of views or not? How does it compare to other preprints in our category?
I remember finding ChatGPT usage in a research paper for the first time. It was April 2023, and a Twitter user pointed out that you could identify bots by their use of the phrase “as an AI language model…”. It’s a hallmark of ChatGPT usage. So I searched Google Scholar for the phrase … and found just one paper.
September, 2024 Authors: Michelle Barker, Wilhelm Hasselbring Directions for Research Software Engineering Research RSE research is a new direction in the evolving field of Research Software Engineering (RSE). This concept was highlighted in a panel chaired by Wilhelm Hasselbring (Kiel University) at RSECon in September 2024.
import mermaid from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mermaid/dist/mermaid.esm.min.mjs'; mermaid.initialize({ startOnLoad: true }); For the better part of a year, I have been looking for an opportunity to use the rOpenSci package deposits in myrole as the Data Librarian at EcoHealth Alliance.I had done some initial testing with Mark Padgham, the brilliant person who developed this package, but there weren’t any projects ready for me to put
Editorial: Para além dos obstáculos: correndo em busca da igualdade, por Kétyla Teodoro Entrevista: Paula Maria Pereira Merichelo, Jonatan Cândido, Ramon Maciel Ferreira e Thayron Rodrigues Rangel Perspectiva: Marlene Rodrigues Inovação: Carta de Porto Velho: o compromisso da Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação com a Amazônia, de Andrea Doyle e André Appel Outras divulgações: O sistema Braille e alfabetização de pessoas com deficiência