New Preprint! Collaboration w/ @OpenAlex, @stefhaustein and @lariviev: An analysis of the suitability of OpenAlex for bibliometric analyses.
High-level comparisons with Scopus and lots of details to better understand OpenAlex. Just as importantly, we also lay some "Remaining Core Questions for the Community". MORE NEEDED!
New study: "Platforms may serve the interests of their providers, which may not always align with [those of science]…The opacity of the algorithms used may introduce biases & steer research processes without sufficient awareness of users. This could introduce potential conflicts of interest in the production & dissemination of scientific knowledge…Commercial players are mostly interested in attracting more users to their platforms." https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/16693/20688
Unfortunately, the new software would merely "underpin" #OpenResearchEurope (#ORE), not replace it. ORE is proprietary software owned by #TaylorAndFrancis. When the EC called for bids on ORE, it did not require open code despite many calls to do so.
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Among other things, I like the way the authors (Cheryl Ball, Corinne Guimont, Matt Vaughn) offer an editable version for those who want to carry the work forward.
For a colleague new to the open research / schol comm space, any relatively current primers out there? There are some classics, but a lot is in flux right now. I'm looking for something that captures that. #scholarlycommunication#openscholarship#openinfrastructure
Update. "The need to publish in English even when it is not the local language affects the type of research undertaken & further consolidates the global North-centric view of scientific approach. The bibliometric databases on which assessments of universities and journals are based are owned by two large [corporations], and this concentration of the market has in turn concentrated the research environment. #OpenInfrastructure offers an alternative option." https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/c8yq3
We're thrilled to launch the Open Infrastructure Fund pilot, which offers 5-25k USD to projects worldwide that strengthen resilience + increase adoption of #openinfrastructure underpinning research & scholarship.
We are committed to reserving at least 60% of the funds available to applicants working in/services widely adopted in Low and Middle Income Economies (LMIEs).
Applications are accepted in both Spanish and English.
Don't get me wrong, I like all the people I've met who work on #DANDI (an archive for neuroscientific data), but it seems like they quietly dropped the part of their roadmap where they planned on interoperability with #IPFS, or any other data system that isn't AWS's public dataset program. So, what exactly is "Distributed" about the "Distributed archives for neurophysiology data integration" now?
Another scientific infrastructure project destined for a half-limping life to inevitable death or capture. Thank god it's made free by this AWS program that can be terminated at any time and is definitely not a trap.
I feel like I can't wave my hands over my head and yell loud enough about how we're literally walking into ANOTHER "open science" scam where the open data mandates are just going to be "pay AWS a fifth of your grant" mandates.
I don't fault tool builders for both doing the overwhelmingly normal thing in making a database nor responding to the direct calls from funders to build cloud infra. but I do think researchers at large need to recognize that any sort of systematic push to make any one (or even few) cloud provider an official or expected resting place for all data makes us a runaway funding drain we don't want.
Sure it's free for now. in a few years you have saved a few hundred TB of your lab's data. the free trial ends. that's p bad, but if you're required, want to, or can't manage the data infra to avoid hosting that data indefinitely, that number never goes down. How much will storage and egress costs be with 5 years of data, 10, etc. for everyone. and larger archives have it some orders of magnitude worse.
it seems like an obviously bad plan to me! but the infrastructure plans of both major basic research funders in the US don't seem to think so!
@jonny ah yes, AWS' scam to make things seem "open" and "free" only to lure scientists into their private infrastructure and lock them in. Since I've pivoted to work more on #Sustainability than #Neuroscience lately, I was recently approached by someone to work on a research project using the datasets available on Amazon's Sustainability Data Initiative -- which I declined -- but I was amazed at how enticing they make this look. No wonder scientists fall into their trap!
If only open infra received that kinda marketing -- #climate scientists could then see how they could have both #OpenData AND the #OpenInfrastructure to host that data.
I've planted a seed into the minds of some of the @climatematch#JupyterHub#2i2c folks to consider not hosting on Amazon/Microsoft/Google Cloud infra and instead go for cleaner and greener alternatives that are not powered by #FossilFuel. According to this Dec 2019 wired article -- Amazon had the worst ratings of the 3 big players:
Overall Greenness: C-
Energy Efficiency: B
** Transparency: F **
Technological Innovation: Unknown
But the big draw for these evil private megacorps seems to be the "free credits" that they offer and scientists/labs/institutes that are not well funded end up choosing these private cloud service providers.
@investinopen sorry for the tag but thought of bringing this discussion to your attention since I am aware of the good work you are doing in trying to increase investments for open infrastructure. Thank you for your work!!
"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.
We have received a $1M grant from the @MellonFdn to expand the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) + explore and test new models to finance #openinfrastructure.
We're the COPIM Project, an international partnership building non-profit, community-owned and community-governed infrastructure to support equitable open access book publishing.
We're looking forward to meeting people here! We might cross-post from Twitter for a bit while we find our feet, but we're excited to find out more about Mastodon as its own space.