tag: Scientific research
Past Event
February 18, 2022
Roger Schonfeld at UC Berkeley’s School of Information
On February 18, Roger Schonfeld will lead a seminar on Research Integrity, Misconduct, and Misinformation at the University of California Berkeley’s School of Information. About this seminar: The integrity of scientific research is increasingly in question, as sources of research misconduct and publishing fraud increase. Additionally, it seems that in part as a consequence of increasing open access, the scholarly record has become a more significant vector for misinformation. In this context, the neutrality of information organizations seems to…
Past Event
December 16, 2021
Roger Schonfeld at CSSP
On December 16th at 12:30 PM ET, Roger Schonfeld will lead a chat for the Council of Scientific Society Presidents on ensuring positive public perception of science. Register on Zoom in advance for this meeting. …
Blog Post
October 27, 2020
Risks to the Research Enterprise
New Issue Brief on Global Science and the China Split
This year, the research activities of academia have been profoundly disrupted, as have the lives of researchers. Yesterday, we published a landscape review focusing on the disruptions caused by the pandemic itself. In addition, there is another source of growing disruption, caused less by a sudden event but rather by the geopolitical tensions that are causing a growing split between China and a group of liberal and democratic countries. In an issue…
Issue Brief
October 27, 2020
Global Science and the China Split
The practice of science has always been a fundamentally international activity. Even during periods of substantial geopolitical splits—such as the Cold War—science has broadly continued its international communication and even collaboration. In the post-Cold War period, science has globalized to a substantial degree. However, the looming geopolitical split between China and many of the liberal and democratic nations including Australia, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as European Union members, raises questions about…
Past Event
April 13, 2019
When Enough Isn’t Enough: Rethinking Research Support in the Sciences
Danielle Cooper and Rebecca Springer at ACRL
On Saturday, April 13, Danielle Cooper and Rebecca Springer will present “When Enough Isn’t Enough: Rethinking Research Support in the Sciences” at the ACRL Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. Their talk is scheduled for 8:30 am. For more information and to register, please see the conference website. About the presentation What would it take for university libraries to develop the same kind of buy-in with scientists as they often have with humanists? A major challenge is that how libraries offer…