Compass to publish (University of Liège) Is this a predatory journal ?
25.11.2020
A page that provides criteria for assessing the authenticity of an Open Access journal.
It provides a score on a scale from -20 (extremely fraudulent) to +20 (no suspicion of fraud).
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Virologist Étienne Decroly (CNRS): The question of the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 is still unanswered
29.10.2020
Nearly a year after SARS-CoV-2 was identified, researchers have yet to determine how it was transmitted to humans. Among various hypotheses, the accidental escape from a laboratory has not been ruled out.
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Library catalog: Discovery Fribourg-Freiburg replaces Explore
06.10.2020
On 9 December 2020, the catalogue used by the BCU, the Swiss universities and college libraries (IDS, NEBIS etc.) will be replaced by the joint catalogue SLSP.
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Working at the University of Fribourg ?
24.09.2020
The Faculty of Science is looking for a Head Librarian (from February 2021)
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Who tweets about bioRxiv preprints ? an analysis on Plos Biology
23.09.2020
Using 331'696 Twitter posts referencing 1'800 highly tweeted bioRxiv preprints th eauthors leveraged topic modeling to infer the characteristics of various communities on Twitter.
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CAS how-to webinars covering best practices for SciFinder research
28.08.2020
A series of how-to webinars covering best practices for SciFinder research - schedule of upcoming webinars and recording of previous one
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The SNSF includes DORA principles in career promotion
05.08.2020
The SNSF has adopted the DORA recommendations in its career funding schemes
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Rapid Reviews: Covid-19
A new journal that will vet Covid-19 preprints, calling out misinformation and highlighting credible research
10.07.2020
The MIT Press will launch of an open access journal to publish reviews of preprints related to Covid-19, in an effort to call out misinformation as well as highlight credible research.
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Max Planck PhDnet: Incentives to adopt open science practices in your daily research
10.07.2020
by CBS Open Science, an institute-wide initiative to empower open, transparent, and reproducible research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
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