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Recent research published in Scientometrics raises questions about unforeseen consequences of the spread of Open Access scientific publishing that have to do with the growth of total expenditures and who would be the economic beneficiaries of this paradigm shift. … The post Open Access and Closed Research. Who benefits from the APC? first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.

Francisco Alberto de Moura Duarte, retired professor from the University of São Paulo Medical School and President of ABEC Brasil for the first two mandates (1985-1987, 1988-1990), passed away on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, in Ribeirão Preto, SP. Professor Moura Duarte was an eminent scientist in the field of molecular genetics, with participation in institutions in the country and abroad. Available in Portuguese only. … The post Death Notice: Francisco Alberto de Moura Duarte, first President of ABEC Brasil first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.

Launched in August 2020 as part of the SciELO Program's positioning as an Open Science program, the SciELO Data research data repository has been in regular operation since January 2022. It is a repository aligned with the state of the art in the management of contents underlying the articles’ texts. … The post SciELO Data repository in regular operation first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.

The assessment of research results that mainly relies on citation-based metrics has limitations that lead to distortions in the management of human and financial resources in research institutions around the world. The innovative Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, created by the initiative of the European Commission and organizations from this continent with the support of 350 public and private organizations from more than 40 countries, has just been published, and establishes criteria that value qualitative assessment and limit the use of quantitative indicators. … The post Research assessment should go beyond comparing impact metrics first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.

What are the benefits of open peer reviews on preprints, and why should researchers consider publishing their journal-invited reviews alongside preprints? ASAPbio fellows orgazined in July 2022 the event "Why Publish Your Reviews?" with the objective to answer this question. … The post Three takeaways from our July 19 Publish Your Reviews event first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.

ASAPbio has been supporting preprint feedback since 2021 through their crowd preprint review activities which seek to draw on the collective input of a group of commenters who each can comment on the preprint according to their level of expertise and interest. They are currently midway through their activities for 2022, which include Portuguese preprints from SciELO Preprints, and wanted to share an update on the progress. … The post Supporting public preprint review through collaborative reviews – an update on ASAPbio’s crowd preprint review first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.

Today, we’re excited to launch Publish Your Reviews, an initiative encouraging reviewers to post their comments alongside the preprint versions of articles. We invite all researchers interested in promoting more open dialog around preprints to sign the pledge. … The post Announcing Publish Your Reviews first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.

PLOS, a pioneer of open access publishing in the years 2000, reports the results of its open peer review policy implemented in 2019. Published Peer Review History is the result of the reviewer's choice to sign their peer review and the author's choice to publish the Peer Review History, which consists of several documents. … The post PLOS reports on publishing Peer Review History first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.

Monkeypox virus, a zoonotic virus endemic to the African continent, has been reported in 33 non-endemic countries since May 2022. We report an almost complete genome of the first confirmed case of MPXV in Brazil. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing was completed in 18 hours, from DNA extraction to consensus sequence generation. … The post Sequencing of the first case of the monkeypox virus in Brazil first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.

In a scientific ecosystem increasingly oriented towards the perspective of Open Science, data papers are a new species of scholarly publication, especially in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). … The post Data papers… and FAIR [Originally published in the Road to FAIR blog in June/2022] first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.