Conveners
Invitation to give 15-minute papers
- Organising Committee
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Rosalind Pyne (Springer Nature)20/06/2019, 17:30
What are academic book authors attitudes towards open access? What are their motivations for publishing books? Why do they choose to publish their books open access (or not to)? And what do book authors think about key issues such as what forms of re-use are acceptable, and whether green or gold open access is preferable for books?
In 2019, Springer Nature ran a major new landscape survey...
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Claire Rawlinson20/06/2019, 17:45
By posting preprints authors can help promote openness and transparency and reduce research waste from duplicated efforts and non-reporting. However, there are concerns about providing public access to preliminary clinical research for fear of causing harm. We believe that medRxiv, a new preprint server for the health sciences, will provide a valuable service to the clinical research community...
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Stefano Bianco (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))20/06/2019, 18:00
The Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) is a first-time player in the OA scenario, being promoter and coordinator of SCOAP3 and OA2020 nation-wide along with CRUI, the Conference on Italian University Rectors. INFN has joined Plan S since the beginning and is performing an extensive outreach programme targeted to Universities and Research institutes. The report will include highlights...
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Emmy Tsang (eLife)20/06/2019, 18:15
Being able to replicate, validate and extend previous work speeds new research projects. Scientists are beginning to apply software engineering practises to their research to make it reproducible and to improve their own efficiency. The development and use of container services allow analysis to be rerun easily and each step to be tracked automatically. The possibility of sharing workflows...
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