Research societies are constantly seeking to extend and advance their respective fields. Open science and preprints play an important role in improving the transparency, reliability, and integrity of the scientific process and research in general. Today, we’ll discuss with Iratxe Puebla various ways in which societies can promote preprints and open science, with an ultimate […]

Preprints of scholarly research articles have been around since at least the 1960s and were originally actually printed. Now, preprints are versions of scientific articles that are posted to public servers prior to undergoing a peer review process. The availability of preprints became more prevalent in 2017 with the introduction of new preprint servers and […]

On January 11, 2023, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the US declared 2023 as the Year of Open Science, in collaboration with multiple well-known federal agencies such as NASA and the US NIH. Among these agencies, NASA stands out for its Transform to Open Science (TOPS) mission, which is […]

As the world inched toward a semblance of normalcy after months blighted by the pandemic, 2022 saw the continuation of work-from-home and hybrid work models but also a return to in-person work and events. Humanity’s whack-a-mole against new COVID-19 variants continued, and we marched on, filled with hope. But then, a full-blown war broke out […]

International Open Access Week 2022 focused on climate justice. Climate justice includes unrestricted access to climate research, free of paywalls or other boundaries. This kind of access is particularly important to researchers in low-income countries (which are disproportionately affected by climate change) as well as researchers from underserved groups, who cannot afford to access critical […]