November 2020 - Listserv For Scientists

3-dimensional team leadership & its requirements

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3-dimensional team leadership & its requirements are described by Bradley Kirkman in his blog post at https://i2insights.org/2020/12/01/3d-team-leadership/. The requirements are: 1) flexibility & adaptability to shift focus under changing circumstances ie to change & offer different approaches as needed, 2) switching behaviour to shift focus among team as whole, individuals in team & subteams, in any order, 3) ambidexterity to manage competing priorities, reconcile competing goals & make trade-offs, 4) emotional intelligence to support thought & action, & remain calm when dealing with tensions & unanticipated reactions and 5) authenticity to adhere to basic principles as situations change & remain comfortable with true self. =================================================== Professor Gabriele Bammer National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research School of Population Health ANU College of Health and Medicine The Australian National University 62 Mills Road Acton ACT 2601 +61 2 6125 0716 Gabriele.Bammer(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au> @GabrieleBammer http://i2s.anu.edu.au<http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn> http://I2Insights.org CRICOS Provider # 00120C ===================================================

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6 strategies to implement interdisciplinary competencies for innovation

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6 strategies to implement interdisciplinary competencies for innovation are described by Colleen Knechtel in her blog post at: https://i2insights.org/2020/11/24/interdisciplinarity-and-innovation/. They are 1) recognise prior knowledge & skills through a growth mindset, 2) flip innovation pyramid to allow those with first-hand knowledge to drive change, 3) think inclusively & take relational responsibility to respect diversity, 4) transform ideas into action, 5) support micro-credentials & mini-qualifications, 6) use reflective practices of unlearning & reframing to be flexible & agile. =================================================== Professor Gabriele Bammer National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research School of Population Health ANU College of Health and Medicine The Australian National University 62 Mills Road Acton ACT 2601 +61 2 6125 0716 Gabriele.Bammer(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au> @GabrieleBammer http://i2s.anu.edu.au<http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn> http://I2Insights.org CRICOS Provider # 00120C ===================================================

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Call for chapters for Handbook of Public Research Funding

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Handbook of Public Research Funding: call for chapter contributions Editors: Benedetto Lepori (USI, Lugano), Ben Jongbloed (University of Twente), Diana Hicks (Georgia Tech). The Handbook of Public Research Funding will be published by Edward Elgar in Summer 2022; it will be a unique work providing a thourough discussion of the dynamic landscape of public funding for research. The handbook will a) provide a theoretical understanding of public research funding from different disciplinary perspectives, such as studies of political science and public administration, economics and innovation, management and organization, as well as social studies applied to science, b) review the state of the art on key issues around public research funding, such as the impact of performance-based funding, how resources are allocated within research organizations and how different grant allocation systems work and c) highlight emerging directions of research and related open questions to be addressed by future research. More than 15 distinguished scholars have already committed to contribute to the handbook, covering dimensions such as the design of policies for research funding, the working of grant systems, researchers’ strategies, impacts on careers and gender issues in research funding. This call aims a) to fill in a number of gaps concerning topics not yet fully covered by the current contributions and b) to consider proposals for innovative topics that might open new directions of research in the field. Priority topics The following topics will be prioritized in the call. * the policy mix of funding instruments and conceptualization of types of funding instruments in a comparative perspective. * the organizational architecture of public research funding, including specifically the role of research funding organizations. * the role of large research organizations, and particularly universities, in distributing public funding, and their responses to changing funding environments (including changing budgeting systems within universities). * the impact of public research funding for scientific innovation and breakthroughs, economic development and societal challenges, respectively how changing funding environments and funding approaches might affect these impacts. Other proposals will be considered to the extent they do not overlap too much with already foreseen chapters. Chapters should have a broad scope and provide a theoretical understanding of the topic, reviewing the state of the art and highlighting directions for future research and open questions. Empirical evidence will be welcome, but purely empirical contributions will not be considered. Length will be 6,000 to 8,000 words. Submission Proposals should be submitted before 31.12.2020 to the editors (blepori(a)usi.ch<mailto:blepori@usi.ch>; dhicks(a)gatech.edu<mailto:dhicks@gatech.edu>; b.w.a.jongbloed(a)utwente.nl<mailto:b.w.a.jongbloed@utwente.nl>) including a title, author(s) affiliations, 1-page summary and key references. Answers will be provided by late January 2021, while draft chapters will be due by May/June 2021.

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How transdisciplinary research needs to engage with paradoxical tensions

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How transdisciplinary research needs to engage with paradoxical tensions is discussed by Faye Miller in her blog post at https://i2insights.org/2020/11/17/navigating-paradoxes/. Three key steps are 1) identifying paradoxical tensions, eg opposing dualities such as holism/reductionism, & reframing them as critical spaces to innovate, 2) moving from either/or to both/and thinking to envision how conflicting elements might co-exist & to validate differing perspectives, 3) navigating through paradoxes to workable certainty, negotiated understanding & creative actions. In your experience how can focusing on paradoxical tensions as a transdisciplinary method develop shared understanding? =================================================== Professor Gabriele Bammer National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research School of Population Health ANU College of Health and Medicine The Australian National University 62 Mills Road Acton ACT 2601 +61 2 6125 0716 Gabriele.Bammer(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au> @GabrieleBammer http://i2s.anu.edu.au<http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn> http://I2Insights.org CRICOS Provider # 00120C ===================================================

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Daniel Goroff on Corporate-Academic Partnerships

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On November 17, Ohio State is hosting Daniel Goroff from the Sloan Foundation to talk about Corporate-Academic Partnerships. All welcome: https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VdKtzmM7S3Os61bI8DUHLw Caroline Wagner [The Ohio State University] Caroline S. Wagner, PhD Wolf Chair in International Affairs John Glenn College of Public Affairs Battelle Center for Science & Engineering Policy Page Hall 210U, 1810 College Road N, Columbus, OH 43210 6142927791 Office / 614-206-8636 Mobile wagner.911(a)osu.edu<mailto:wagner.911@osu.edu> / http://glenn.osu.edu/faculty/glenn-faculty/wagner/.osu.edu<http://http//glenn.osu.edu/faculty/glenn-faculty/wagner/.osu.edu> Pronouns: she/her/hers / Honorific: Professor ORCID<http://%3Cdiv%20itemscope%20itemtype%3D%22https//schema.org/Person%22%3E%3Ca%20itemprop=%22sameAs%22%20content=%22https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1724-8489%22%20href=%22https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1724-8489%22%20target=%22orcid.widget%22%20rel=%22me%20noopener%20noreferrer%22%20style=%22vertical-align:top;%22%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22https://orcid.org/sites/default/files/images/orcid_16x16.png%22%20style=%22width:1em;margin-right:.5em;%22%20alt=%22ORCID%20iD%20icon%22%3Ehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1724-8489%3C/a%3E%3C/div%3E> Buckeyes consider the environment before printing.

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Update: International Collaboration on COVID-19 Research

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Dear Friends, A group of us has put together an update on international collaboration on COVID-19 research. I am sharing the abstract below. The full draft preprint can be found at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3729672 International Collaboration During the COVID-19 Crisis: Autumn 2020 Developments by Xiaojing Cai, Caroline V. Fry, Caroline Wagner :: SSRN<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3729672> After the initial shock of the early months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, international collaboration in COVID-19 research continues to show aberrant pattern papers.ssrn.com Abstract After the initial shock of the early months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, international collaboration in COVID-19 research continues to show aberrant patterns compared to coronavirus research in pre-COVID times. The most affected nations tend to produce the greatest number of coronavirus articles, with output closely coupled to the rate of infection. COVID-19 research has fewer nations and smaller teams than pre-COVID research, a trend which intensifies during the pandemic. The United States remains the single largest contributor to the global publication output, but contrary to China’s dominance in the initial months of the pandemic, China’s contribution falls as the national COVID-19 caseload drops. China-USA collaborations drop as the pandemic continues, perhaps due to China’s reduced rate of publication on the topic, and perhaps due to political obstacles, or a combination of these factors. [The Ohio State University] Caroline S. Wagner, PhD Wolf Chair in International Affairs John Glenn College of Public Affairs Battelle Center for Science & Engineering Policy Page Hall 210U, 1810 College Road N, Columbus, OH 43210 6142927791 Office / 614-206-8636 Mobile wagner.911(a)osu.edu<mailto:wagner.911@osu.edu> / http://glenn.osu.edu/faculty/glenn-faculty/wagner/.osu.edu<http://http//glenn.osu.edu/faculty/glenn-faculty/wagner/.osu.edu> Pronouns: she/her/hers / Honorific: Professor ORCID<http://%3Cdiv%20itemscope%20itemtype%3D%22https//schema.org/Person%22%3E%3Ca%20itemprop=%22sameAs%22%20content=%22https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1724-8489%22%20href=%22https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1724-8489%22%20target=%22orcid.widget%22%20rel=%22me%20noopener%20noreferrer%22%20style=%22vertical-align:top;%22%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22https://orcid.org/sites/default/files/images/orcid_16x16.png%22%20style=%22width:1em;margin-right:.5em;%22%20alt=%22ORCID%20iD%20icon%22%3Ehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1724-8489%3C/a%3E%3C/div%3E> Buckeyes consider the environment before printing.

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Fwd: Call for Special Tracks - Data for Policy 2021

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Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you that the Data for Policy 2021 Conference will take place on September 14-16, 2021 at University College London. https://dataforpolicy.org/data-for-policy-2021/ The International Organisation Committee would like to invite special track proposals at the conference. The deadline for submission is December 10, 2020. A wide range of issues concerning data and policy will be discussed at the conference. The area of Data to Tackle Global Issues and Dynamic Societal Threats, including sustainable development and climate change, is particularly highlighted as being of special interest. Special tracks can be considered tor post-conference publication of a Special Collection of articles in Data & Policy, an open-access journal published by Cambridge University Press. Thank you very much. Best regards, YARIME Masaru ********************************************************************************************************************************* YARIME Masaru, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy (PPOL), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Office: Room 4611 (Lift 31/32), PPOL, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Phone: +852-3469-2283; E-mail: yarime(a)ust.hk; Web: https://ppol.ust.hk/ppl/faculty/prof_masaru_yarime; http://yarime.net/ Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering & Public Policy, University College London Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo ********************************************************************************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Data for Policy 2021 <team(a)dataforpolicy.org> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 9:05 PM Subject: Call for Special Tracks - Data for Policy 2021 To: Masaru Yarime <yarimemasa(a)gmail.com> Call for Special Tracks Call for Area Editors <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> *Data & Policy* is looking for six Area Editors to extend its editorial team. The journal aims to deepen knowledge about how policy and data relate to each other (“policy-data interactions”), as explored in the opening editorial <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…>. As part of the next phase of development, we are seeking six Area Editors who can commission and handle papers that relate to this aim. Call for Communications Editor <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> *Data & Policy* is looking for a Communications Editor. We are seeking someone with expertise in digital communications and an interest in the way that data science is transforming policy and governance to help us develop our social media and communications strategy for two related projects. 6th International Conference *Data for Policy 2021* 14-16 September 2021, UCL, London *Call for Special Tracks *(Deadline: 10 December 2020) dataforpolicy.org <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | @dataforpolicy <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | cambridge.org/dap <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | @data_and_policy <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> The International Organisation Committee for the Data for Policy 2021 invites special track proposals at the conference, also leading to the peer-review and potential publication of a Special Collection of articles in Data & Policy (published by CUP) after the conference. Special tracks will draw on and build communities around areas of interest, with a view to continuing in future years. In association with Cambridge University Press, the Alan Turing Institute and the Office for National Statistics, the sixth edition of the international Data for Policy conferences is scheduled to take place in September 2021. The conference series is the top global forum for multiple disciplinary and cross-sector debate around the theories, applications and the implications of data science innovation in the public sector and governance. *Areas of Interest:* Special track proposals are directed to developing conference sessions in one or more of the areas of interest, or in relevant emerging areas. - *Data-driven Transformations in Policy and Governance *– this standard track focuses on the high-level vision for philosophy, ideation, formulation and implementation of new approaches leading to paradigm shifts, innovation and efficiency gains in collective decision making processes. Topics may include: - Data-driven innovation in public, private and voluntary sector governance and policy-making at all levels (international, national and local): applications for real-time management, future planning, and rethinking/reframing governance and policy-making in the digital era; - Data and evidence-based policy-making; - Government-private sector-citizen interactions: data and digital power dynamics, asymmetry of information; democracy, public opinion and deliberation; citizen services; - Interactions between human, institutional and algorithmic decision-making processes, psychology and behaviour of decision-making; - Global policy-making: global existential debates on utilizing data-driven innovation with impact beyond individual institutions and states; - Socio-technical and cyber-physical systems, and their policy and governance implications. The remaining categories represent more specifically the current applications, methodologies, strategies which underpin the broad aims of Data for Policy’s vision: - *Focus on Data Technologies and Analytics for Policy and Governance *– this track is concerned with data in its variety of forms and sources, and infrastructure and methods for its utilisation in policy and governance: - Data sources: Personal and proprietary data, administrative data and official statistics, open and public data, organic vs designed data, sensory and mobile data, digital footprints, crowdsourced data, and other relevant data; - Technologies: Artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet of things, platform technologies, digital twins, visualisation and user interaction technologies, data and analytics infrastructures, cloud and mobile technologies; - Methodologies and Analytics: Mathematical and statistical models, computational statistics, machine learning, edge analytics, federated learning, theory and data-driven knowledge generation, multiple disciplinary methodologies, real-time and historical data processing, geospatial analysis, simulation, gaps in theory and practice. - *Focus on the Policy Frameworks, Governance and Management of Data-driven Innovations *– this track focusses on governance practices and management issues involved in implementation of data-driven solutions: - Data and algorithm design principles and accountability; - Local, national and international governance models and frameworks for data and associated technologies; - Data and algorithms in the law; - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other regulatory frameworks; - Data intermediaries, trusts and collaboratives; - Meta-data, interoperability and standards; - Data ownership, provenance, sharing, supply chains, linkage, curation and expiration; - Data sovereignty and data spaces. - *Focus on Ethics, Equity and Trust in Policy Data Interactions *– this track examines the issues which must be considered in technology design and assessment. - Digital Ethics: Data, algorithms, models and dynamic interactions between them; - Digital trust, and human-data-machine interactions in policy context; - Responsible technology design and assessment; - Privacy and data sharing; - Digital identification, personhood, and services; - Uncertainties, bias, and imperfections in data and data-driven systems; - Algorithmic behaviour: equity and fairness, transparency and explainability, accountability, and interpretability; - Human-machine collaboration in strategic decision making and algorithm agency; - Human control, rights, democratic values, and self-determination. The following are areas which fall within the above categories, but are highlighted as being of special interest: - *Focus on Data to Tackle Global Issues and Dynamic Societal Threats:* - Human existence and the planet; - International collaboration for global risk management and disaster recovery; - Global health, emergency response, Covid-19 and pandemics; - Sustainable development, climate change and the environment; - Humanitarian data science, international migration, gender-based issues and racial justice; - International competition and cultures of digital transformation. - *Focus on Algorithmic Governance:* - Data-driven insights in governance decision making, black-box processing; - Algorithm agency along with human and institutional decision-making processes; - Government automation: citizen service delivery, supporting civil servants, managing national public records and physical infrastructure, statutes and compliance, and public policy development; - Algorithmic ‘good’ governance: participation, consensus orientation, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, effectiveness and efficiency, equity and inclusiveness, and the rule of law. The interrelatedness of all categories is undeniable, and the categorization above does not indicate siloed activity. It is rather an articulation of the breadth and depth of the vision and mission for improved data-driven decisions and policymaking, which is the ethos of both Data for Policy and Data & Policy. *Instructions for Special Track submissions: * Those interested in organising a Special Track at the Data for Policy 2021 Conference should send a brief description (up to 1000 words) through the conference submission system <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…>. If the Special Track is proposed by a group, one person should be identified as the Chair to coordinate with the Data for Policy Team in submissions and the review process. The Special Track descriptions should cover the following information: - The title of the proposed Special Track; - An overview of the motivation and topics to be covered; - How the collection fits within the scope of the conference themes; - Your plans to circulate your Special Track announcement to reach relevant communities and networks; - Whether you are interested in editing a Special Collection in Data & Policy, deriving from the Special Track, which will involve guiding submitted articles through the journal’s peer review process, supported by the Data & Policy editorial team and publisher. The deadline for Special Track Proposals is 10/12/2020. Following review, we will inform Special Track leads and feature successful proposals in the main call for papers for the conference. *Special Track process: * If their proposal is accepted, Special Track Chairs will play an active role in the run up to and during the conference. We expect Special Track Chairs to: - Circulate an announcement about their Special Track to their networks, following the Call for Papers sent by the Data for Policy conference team that will ask interested authors to submit extended abstracts; - Review the extended abstracts relevant to their Special Tracks for final decision by the International Organisation Committee, who will notify those accepted to present at the conference; - Organise the programme for their Special Track at the conference, in conjunction with the conference organisers – which will, for example, involve the grouping of submissions into panels, and organising panel chairs; - Report on the success of the track in the form of a *Data & Policy* blog, and communicate issues or improvements to the organisers after the conference; - Make assessments about the potential for publications arising from the Special Track, especially if the Chair wishes to edit a Special Collection in Data & Policy. *Special Collections in Data & Policy: * Following the establishment of Data & Policy, we invite Special Track Chairs to become actively involved in the process of editing a Special Collection in the journal related to their track. This does imply additional work beyond the timeline of the conference, so it is not required, but it is something we encourage in the interest of further disseminating scholarly discussion about data science, governance and the public sector. Those accepted to present at the conference will be given two complementary options for disseminating their paper and related materials. They will be encouraged to use the Data for Policy community platform on Zenodo ( https://zenodo.org/communities/dfp17 <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…>), an open repository, in order to make their conference paper and any related materials – such slides, audio, video, datasets and code – available at the time of the conference. In addition, authors will have the option of submitting their paper to Data & Policy, in order to undergo a peer review process that could potentially lead to formal publication in the journal. Special Track Chairs wishing to become involved in the editorial process are invited to act as Guest Editors of Special Collections in Data & Policy. This will involve: - Short-listing of the Special Track papers to those that form a thematically coherent collection of publications, presenting the key issues; - Guiding submitted papers through the journal’s peer review process (inviting reviewers, recommending decisions to the Data & Policy Editors-in-Chief); - Writing an editorial to introduce the Special Collection. Note that the timeline for Special Collections will extend well beyond that of the conference, with submissions and peer review beginning after September 2021 and continuing through 2022. All submitted articles will be peer-reviewed independently, and accepted or rejected on their own merits according to the journal’s process. Data & Policy is a collaborative effort to produce for this community a peer-reviewed and authoritative resource about the potential and implications of data science for governance, and Special Track Chairs interested in editing Special Collections will receive plenty of support from both the Data & Policy editorial team, the Data for Policy Community Manager and the journal’s publisher, Cambridge University Press. *Visit the official conference page <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…>* *Contacts: * For all questions related to Special Tracks at the conference, please contact team(a)dataforpolicy.org; and for questions relating to Special Collections in Data & Policy, please contact dataandpolicy(a)cambridge.org *Copyright © 2020 Data for Policy CIC, All rights reserved.* We send notifications to participants of past Data for Policy activities and those who have shown interest. Want to change how you receive these emails? 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Upcoming webinar 11/18: Tracking the Career Outcomes of Research-Funded Employees with IRIS

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Hi everyone, We here at the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) are hosting a potentially interesting webinar on Nov. 18, described below. Please register if you're so inclined, and forward to any relevant people/lists. thanks, -Dan Meisler, IRIS ________________ Title: Tracking the Career Outcomes of Research-Funded Employees with IRIS Date/Time: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1 p.m. ET Presenter: Kevin Bjorne, IRIS Technical Director Description: The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) has significantly improved its ability to track the career outcomes of employees who have worked on university-based sponsored research projects. Working with Atlanta-based data provider Steppingblocks, the new IRIS Employee Report can show the locations, industries and companies in which research-funded employees find jobs after they leave an IRIS member university. The new report contains fine-grained information on the outcomes for several types of university employees, such as undergraduate students, post-docs, faculty and staff. Registration: http://myumi.ch/AxRzd -- Dan Meisler, Communications Specialist Institute for Research on Innovation and Science 734.647.3587 (office) 734.223.5857 (cell) iris.isr.umich.edu @IRIS_UMETRICS <https://twitter.com/IRIS_UMETRICS>

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An article informing non-scientists about OA

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Free science is here and growing fast By David Wojick Most of my readers are interested in science. Many of my blog articles are scientific and these are often followed by lengthy technical discussions in the comments. Some of my scientific articles have had thousands of comments; one was over 5,000 when comments were closed. And there are many other blogs like this. Thanks to the miracle of online commenting the discussion of science, especially related to policy, is now a major popular pastime. The good news is that the scientific community is responding big time to this extensive popular interest. We are in the midst of a huge wave of activities designed to make the latest science available to everyone who is interested in it, free of charge. Here are just a few great examples: Open access (OA). This term refers to various ways to make journal articles freely available. This is a serious challenge because journals have mostly been paid for via expensive subscriptions, usually by rich university libraries. Total cost is estimated at over ten billion dollars a year. People with no connection to a major school have no access to the journals, which publish well over two million technical articles a year. The most common form of open access is the author pays model, called Gold OA. The author, actually typically the research grant, pays the cost of publication so the article is free to all. There are now many OA journals, as they are called, funded entirely by author pays. Some are huge, called mega journals, publishing tens of thousands of free articles a year. In addition, many subscription journals offer their authors an OA option, for a price. Repositories for articles. Many universities host what is called a repository, where their faculty deposits their published journal articles, which are then freely available to all. If the article is in a subscription journal there is typically a waiting period before it becomes open, usually 12 months from the date of publication. This is called Green OA. By far the biggest system of repositories is hosted by the US Government, under the Public Access Program. Every journal article that flows from federal funding, in whole or just in part, must be deposited by the author. If it is OA then it becomes freely available immediately; if subscription then after 12 months. This includes well over 100,000 articles a year. I helped develop this program. There are also subject matter repositories. Given the huge number of published articles it can be challenging to find the right stuff. By far the best free service for doing this is Google Scholar. It provides full text search for millions of articles in tens of thousands of journals, often going back 60 years or more. There is a powerful advanced search window that supports all sorts of specialized searches. Click on the three horizontal bars in the upper right to get the window. Repository copies are often listed and unlike Google the number of hits listed is real information about how much research has been done, Preprint servers. Here authors post their draft articles before submitting them to a journal. Given that it can take years to get published this is a good place to find the latest science. I recently did a piece based on a preprint. Most journals allow preprints and some even use these servers for article submission. In some cases the preprints are never submitted, making them another form of communication. A great many new preprint servers have recently been created. To my knowledge there is as yet no combined search service for these proliferating servers. Speaking of other forms than the journal article, some federal agencies publish the final report from their funded research projects. These reports tend to be much longer than journal articles, often ten times longer, so they contain a wealth of information. Many of these reports can be found using the Science.gov portal, which I also worked on. In turn, Science.gov is part of a global science search system that includes many national systems, called WorldWideScience.org. This global system features a unique translation algorithm that searches repositories in other languages. I helped develop the WWS.org system and the translation feature was my idea. It searches hundreds of millions of pages of science and engineering. In short there are a huge number of science and engineering research results that are freely available to the world with more coming on. Finding just what you need can be time consuming but a lot of people are working on that as well. A grand revolution in scientific communication is upon us. Go for it. Please share this. David

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Key attitudinal, behavioral & cognitive issues that influence interdisciplinary collaborations

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Key attitudinal, behavioral & cognitive issues that influence interdisciplinary collaborations are described by Stephen Fiore in his blog post at https://i2insights.org/2020/11/10/interdisciplinary-collaboration-issues/. Avoid disciplinary disdain, arrogance, apprehension, ignorance, myopia & multilingualism. Foster disciplinary tolerance, benevolence & naivety. =================================================== Professor Gabriele Bammer National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research School of Population Health ANU College of Health and Medicine The Australian National University 62 Mills Road Acton ACT 2601 +61 2 6125 0716 Gabriele.Bammer(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au> @GabrieleBammer http://i2s.anu.edu.au<http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn> http://I2Insights.org CRICOS Provider # 00120C ===================================================

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