This post was written by Nick Shockey and first appeared on openaccessweek.org and has since been reposted on sparcopen.org. Nick is the…
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Advocacy Theme of 2020 Open Access Week to be Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion
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Collaboration PLOS and LibLynx Partner to Develop Open Access Analytics
The following press release was issued on Wednesday, August 12 at 8am Pacific. SAN FRANCISCO (August 12, 2020) — The Public Library…
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Collaboration PLOS joins other publishers in an initiative and call to maximize the efficiency of peer review of COVID-19 research
PLOS is part of a group of publishers supporting a rapid review initiative for COVID-19 research. We are also co-signing an Open…
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Collaboration An ornithologist and an entomologist go into the kīpuka…
There is something magical about reading a well-written, remarkable paper from outside of your sub-discipline — the echoes of familiarity in methodology…
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Citizen Science Scientists Who Selfie: Building Public Trust Through Social Media
There are many ways to communicate science, but few as expedient and direct as social media. But while Twitter and Instagram have…
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Collaboration All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Peer-Reviewed Papers (Part 1)
I remember feeling a spark of urgent curiosity when I found a copy of All I Really Need to Know I Learned…
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Biodiversity Summer Reading (Part 1)
We’re rushing out of the dog days of summer and into the start of a new semester — or in my case the…
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Collaboration Science Twitter and the Secretly Super-rare Saxifragaceae
Top Image: a figure from “The hidden Heuchera: How science Twitter uncovered a globally imperiled species in Pennsylvania, USA” During one of…
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Biodiversity The “Big Ideas” in Ecology
If you want to get “technical” about it, dentistry, is about 13,000 years old. However, while the fillings Neolithic peoples performed with…
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Collaboration Not Seeing the Grass for the Trees
I appreciate repetition. My favorite class in high school was AP Chemistry, but I think I owe most of my AP success…
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Collaboration Graphic Novels & Socio-Ecological Systems
Let’s say you’ve just pulled off an innovative, interdisciplinary symposia bringing together stakeholders across socio-ecological systems in the world’s oceans. You spent…
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Collaboration Conservations Genetics, Non-academic Coauthors & Erdős Numbers
I spent a week in Washington DC about two weeks before the government shutdown. Part of my conservation science postdoc fellowship involves…