RDM & Scholarly Communication News @ VIU Library

This in-person summer school is offered jointly by SFU’s Research Computing Group and the Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, on behalf of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. It is hosted by SFU’s Big Data Hub and is open to all researchers at SFU and other Canadian post-secondary institutions.

More information at https://rcss24.netlify.app/ -- including session schedule, descriptions, and registration:

To register, please go here.

A conversation with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy of Punctum Press about Open Access publishing: the what, the how, the why. 

Founded in 2011, punctum is an independent queer- and scholar-led, community-formed, and peer-reviewed fully open-access (OA) publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design. From its start, punctum has remained committed to an OA book publishing model that never charges fees to authors and that privileges cooperative expertise and knowledge sharing between librarians, knowledge managers, publishers, and scholar-researchers.

https://colab.plymouthcreate.net/resource/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-open-access-publishing-but-were-afraid-to-ask/

For details and registration, see the Winter / Spring 2024 Events schedule:

https://training.westdri.ca/events/upcoming-training-winter-spring-2024/

"PCI is a non-profit organization of researchers offering peer review, recommendation and publication of scientific articles in open access for free.

... Thematic PCIs are entitled Peer Community in X, e.g. – Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology (PCI Evol Biol) and Peer Community in Ecology (PCI Ecol). See the list of all current PCIs."

https://peercommunityin.org/

Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information

The research information landscape requires fundamental change. The signatories of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information commit to taking a lead in transforming the way research information is used and produced. Openness of information about the conduct and communication of research must be the new norm.

Open research information enables science policy decisions to be made based on transparent evidence and inclusive data. It enables information used in research evaluations to be accessible and auditable by those being assessed. And it enables the global movement toward open science to be supported by information that is fully open and transparent.

https://barcelona-declaration.org/