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Selected Digital Tools

Open Science Framework – A scholarly commons to connect the entire research cycle

labfolder is an electronic lab notebook that enables researchers to record findings and make new discoveries.

 


 

As Open Data and the F.A.I.R. Principles are more and more becoming a standard in scientific processes, transparency and reproducibility of the whole research workflow are starting to be recognized as good scientific practices (see for instance the SPARC initiative openscholarchampions.eu). To make the transition towards Open Data and the implementation of FAIR Principles smooth and approachable, we designed the following 2-day course on Open Science and Research Data Management ...
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This article was oroginally published at ese-bookshelf.blogspot.com by our colleague Duncan Nicholas. After more than a year of work, the Open Scholarship Strategy document has been published in full. The work was inspired by the Foundations for OER Strategy Development, the FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group, and developed by an open contribution working group of 32 people, including , , , , , and Read More
/ Career Development, Duncan Nicholas, Open Access, Open Data, Open Education, Open Peer Review, Open Science, Open Source, Science Communication
This post was originally published in Swedish at the Vetenskap & Allmänhet website. “VA is an independent Swedish non-profit membership organization that works to promote dialogue and openness between researchers and the public.” This English version was originally published . I harp on about it all the time, so I may as well carry on here too: The research community today is weighed down by a communication culture ...
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For a 2-day course on Good Manufacturing Practice earlier this week, I prepared the following presentation. The lecture started with a recap of Good Scientific Practice, followed by Good Laboratory Practice as prerequisites for reliable and transparent manufacturing in pharmaceutical, medicinal, food and agricultural industries. from Insights and feedback from the participants ranged from "Why didn't we have this lecture before ...
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In April this year, the following 10 changemakers gathered at Ruhr University for TEDxRuhrUniversityBochum: (1) presenting his social enterprise Saora Insustries, which delivers a solution for sustainable, affordable and environment-friendly drinking water. (2) Jakob Schoen had a vision of a volunteer maritime salvage back in 2015, when he heard about the many deaths of people trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea and co-founded Jugend Rettet which owns the boat JUVENTA and has already saved more ...
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This podcast was originally published at PhD Career Stories.  changed his career path in 2011 after his PhD in Marine Microbiology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen. In todays “PhD Career Story” he talks about how he became a science communicator and which skills you can use from your PhD if you aim to be self-employed. You can use a lot of your PhD skills, even if ...
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This podcast was originally published at PhD Career Stories. "Hello and welcome to today’s podcast on PhD Career Stories. My name is Johanna Havemann and I will tell you a bit about my path up until today. At this very moment, I am in Cape Town, South Africa and will also pass by Nairobi, Kenya next week. Normally, I am based in Berlin, Germany from where I work as a ...
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Our short answer is "YES". Do you need arguments in favor of Open Access (OA) in Research? Here you go: More citations per article OA articles are available free of charge not only to scientists all around the globe, but also to journalists, policy makers, economists and the general public – who pays for large chunk of the conducted research. Alternative metrics (altmetrics) allow especially young scientists to build a reputation by ...
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