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Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) is an innovative model of scholarly publishing that involves the review, validation, and editorial commentary of a preprint. It introduces much greater openness and transparency across the publishing ecosystem …

… PRC offers tremendous flexibility. It can accommodate a wide variety of editorial workflows, types of peer review, and research outputs, as demonstrated by several flavours of PRC that are already operational – from overlay journals that more closely mirror a typical journal publication, to approaches that are adopting very innovative practices. See Peer Community In, Episcience, eLife, PREreview, and Psicológica, for examples.

More: 

https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/transforming-scholarly-publishing-through-the-publish-review-curate-model/

Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Time: 10 am Pacific Time

This webinar will introduce the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) community cloud. You will learn about the resources available to Canadian researchers and how the cloud can help advance your research.

What is Cloud? What are Virtual Machines? Join us for an introduction of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) community cloud. In this webinar, you will learn about the resources available to Canadian researchers and how the cloud can help advance your research.

Webinar Objectives:

• Understand what cloud is
• Become aware of the resources available in the Alliance cloud
• Learn how to get started on the Alliance cloud

Find more information and register here.

See other Alliance training events here.

In November 2023, a panel of external experts was tasked by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) (‘the agencies’) to provide advice on the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the development and review of research proposals submitted for grant applications. Their advice was published on December 21, 2023. The following guidance on the use of generative AI, intended for researchers in Canada and Canadian post-secondary institutions, draws heavily on this advice and on feedback received during a public consultation period…

…Recognizing the rapid pace of technological development in this field, this guidance will be reviewed on a regular basis and updated as the agencies continue to monitor emerging issues and trends.

Date modified: 2024-11-18

See: Guidance on the use of Artificial Intelligence in the development and review of research grant proposals

Using the Web of Science database, articles published in the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery between 2019 and 2023 were listed, excluding those with corrections or retractions. 

… OA articles had statistically significantly higher citation counts than [toll access] articles. OA articles were found to be funded at a higher rate than TA articles.

Paywalled details: 

Şahin, Ş., Durna, Y. M., Duymaz, Y. K., & Bahşi, İ. (2024). Do Open Access Articles Have a Citation Advantage Over Toll Access Articles? A Comparative Analysis of Articles Published in the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery From 2019 to 2023 Based on Web
of Science Data. The Journal of craniofacial surgery, 10.1097/SCS.0000000000010868. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/SCS.0000000000010868

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