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Love Data Week Events @ USask

Topics include Indigenous data sovereignty (from both researcher and government/organizational perspectives), HPC, research security, data sharing, and more. Most of our sessions are online and open to all.…our registration form for online events is requesting a USask email address. We’re trying to fix that, but for now please know that any email address will work in that field!Details and registration: https://shorturl.at/HKWOz ...

OASPA Webinar: What do we mean by quality in open access publishing? Feb. 5, 2025

What do researchers expect from OA journals and what do OA journals offer? Are there any regional differences in the perception of publication quality?More information & registration: https://www.oaspa.org/events/what-do-we-mean-by-quality-in-open-access-publishing/...

From The Scholarly Kitchen: Does Altering A Dataset Merit Retraction?

If you take a minute to ponder the implications, it opens up a whole Pandora’s box of integrity issues if authors can simply make alterations to their data after someone questions their work. Full post: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/01/17/does-altering-a-dataset-merit-retraction/...

From The Online Scientist: Step-by-step guide to archive your research website for free

What happens to your research project website when funding ends? Without ongoing budgets for hosting and maintenance, and with researchers moving on, websites often disappear—along with valuable information. Don’t let this happen! Here’s our simple solution: convert your WordPress website into a static HTML site, so it’s stays visible to the world, but is hosted for free. I’ll show you exactly how to preserve your website for “eternity,” step by step.This also works if you just want to host a website for free, and don’t need the website to change (much).More info / full post: https://www.theonlinescientist.com/step-by-step-guide-to-archive-your-research-website-for-free/...

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