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(Australia) Research integrity in the age of ‘fake news’: A challenge to the humanities – Australian Academy of the Humanities (Emerita Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki FAHA | July 2022)

We don’t tolerate junk science in the life sciences – nor should we. But humanities is treated differently. Conspiracy theories, unsupported nutty assertions and offensive claims are tolerated under the guise of academic freedom. Internationally, governments (especially rightwing ones) have legislated to preserve such freedoms. It is hard not to think of the likes of David Irvine and wonder if that’s the kind of freedom we want to preserve. This pierce reflects on those issues for humanities.

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(Russia) Top Russian university officials’ predatory publishing record points to deeper malaise – Chemistry World (Dalmeet Singh Chawla | July 2022)

This story from Russia highlights that tackling a problem like researchers publishing in questionable publishers needs to start with the most senior researchers and leaders to effect change. It also demonstrates that the problem isn’t that hapless researchers are being tricked by predatory publishers, that there are experienced researchers gaming the system of incentives by publishing via the low bar of publishing in questionable publishers. We need to approach this as a research culture issue and focus upon the damage been done by dodgy research.

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(France) France will require Ph.D.s to take a research ethics oath – Science (Tania Rabesandratana | July 2022)

We suspect this move by France will prove to be a curiosity and symbolic, resulting in no change to the problem. We suspect an oath won’t alter the behaviour of charlatans and cheats. It also won’t address the damage done by an institution’s research culture that is flawed or toxic.

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Research and publication ethics knowledge and practices in the health and life sciences: Findings from an exploratory survey (Papers: L.E. Bain, et al | July 2022)

Abstract Background We sought to examine the levels of awareness, preferences, experiences, and practices of researchers in the health and

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Point of View: Promoting constructive feedback on preprints with the FAST principles – eLife (Sandra Franco Iborra, et al | April 2022)

The FAST principles offer a fantastic approach to preprint papers. They provide a radical and extremely positive reimagining of research outputs which is democratic and open. Ideas not only reach us faster, where is the opportunity for collegiate discussion and mutual/real time exploration.

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Many researchers say they’ll share data — but don’t – Nature (Clare Watson | June 2022)

In recent years, an increasing number of research funding bodies, publications, learned societies and institutions have urged researchers to share their data. In 2021, Gary Allen and Nik Zeps wrote about the fact that there is a research ethics argument for sharing data. So it is disheartening to hear that some researchers are using research ethics considerations and principles as the justification for them not sharing a project’s data. Institutional policies and guidelines should stress that the sharing of data is an ethical ‘good’ and should urge researchers to include extended consent tick boxes in their consent strategies.

Q: Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe? – Scholarly Kitchen (Rick Anderson | May 2022)

This interesting discussion highlights the importance of carefully selecting a Creative Commons license before you share your work, especially publicly online.

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(Australia) Research Integrity – Needs and provision of training in Australian Institutions (Resources: Australian Academy of Sciences: June 2022)

Between December 2020 and November 2021, the Australian Academy of Science and publisher Springer Nature aimed to investigate perceptions of research

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(Australia) Research integrity in the age of ‘fake news’: A challenge to the humanities – Australian Academy of the Humanities (Emerita Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki FAHA | July 2022)

(Russia) Top Russian university officials’ predatory publishing record points to deeper malaise – Chemistry World (Dalmeet Singh Chawla | July 2022)

(France) France will require Ph.D.s to take a research ethics oath – Science (Tania Rabesandratana | July 2022)

Research and publication ethics knowledge and practices in the health and life sciences: Findings from an exploratory survey (Papers: L.E. Bain, et al | July 2022)

Point of View: Promoting constructive feedback on preprints with the FAST principles – eLife (Sandra Franco Iborra, et al | April 2022)

Q: Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe? – Scholarly Kitchen (Rick Anderson | May 2022)

(Australia) Research Integrity – Needs and provision of training in Australian Institutions (Resources: Australian Academy of Sciences: June 2022)

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