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COVID-19 Gender Gap in Research
A recent preprint (June 11 2020) 'COVID-19 amplifies gender disparities in research' and accompanying data set demonstrate how women researcher are disproportionately affected by the crisis with a fall off in publishing.
GenR Themes
- Climate Change
- Community Science
- Software Citation
- Socializing Infrastructures
Civil Society Engagement Seeks Open Science for Rapid Decarbonization!
Opensay, a new open research community, recently launched to bring together civil society organisations and modelling researchers and apply Open Science practices to further 100% decarbonization planning and policy. 'Opensay: open (energy) system analysis community' has come out of the predominantly European 'openmod' open energy modelling community to partner with civil society organizations and bring open analytics practices to a wider audience.Â
A Community Science Index
This is a collaboratively made index of resources to accompany the GenR theme 'Post-Digital Community Science' which ran over May/June 2019. The theme blogposts can all be seen here online. The index has been organised to represent a number of areas and questions
Call for Community Review: Software Source Code Identification Working Group
For many decades software and research software has not been cataloged. If someone said we've not cataloged books for the last fifty years you'd think they were crazy — but this is the situation research software has found itself in — with some exceptions. The Software Source Code Identification (SCID) Working Group and its predecessor working groups have been working on ways to identify and cite research software and in effect going forward help create ways to enable cataloging of research software. SCID is looking for feedback on its latest software ID report — the community feedback deadline 17th August.
Making a ‘Pre-Publishing’ Research Workflow Open Source
Being open & transparent saves time & improves research Image: Before – After. ‘Being open & transparent saves time & improves research: The Grackle Project’ and ‘Making a...
