• We are delighted to release the Subscribe to Open (S2O) 2023 Transparency Report for our mathematics journals* co-published by EDP Sciences and the Société de Mathématiques Industrielles et Appliquées ( SMAI ). (edpsciences.org)
  • Following the announcement that the journals will continue to publish in open access in 2023 , this report marks our third consecutive year of providing this comprehensive overview, reinforcing our commitment to transparency. (edpsciences.org)
  • We invite you to explore the complete 2023 Transparency Report and more detailed information is available to interested libraries on request. (edpsciences.org)
  • Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and ANR have announced a 2023 roadmap for the Diamond Open Access community, consisting of two community webinars leading up to the October Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Toluca, México. (scienceeurope.org)
  • The University of Maryland's computer science program ranks 8th among the country's public undergraduate programs in the 2023 edition of U.S. News & World Report 's "Best Colleges. (umd.edu)
  • The 2023 Transparency Index (available in PDF form below) builds on our earlier research into the State of Corporate Sustainability Disclosure. (ucla.edu)
  • Experts are calling for greater transparency and fairness in cancer drug pricing, in light of findings revealing discrepancies between Europe, Australia and New Zealand. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • If so, then greater transparency about the costs and benefits of different sentencing practices could reduce unwanted disparities between voters expressed judgments and their core values. (databasefootball.com)
  • In 2019, BITSS also began distributing copies of "Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research," a textbook written by former BITSS Scientist Garret Christensen, Jeremy Freese, and Edward Miguel with support from BITSS, at their trainings and events. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Social Science Prediction Platform (SSPP), launched in 2020, enables the systematic collection and assessment of expert forecasts of research results and the effects of untested social programs. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 12 March 2021, The Australian Academy of Science provided a submission to the Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee on the Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2020 currently subject to inquiry. (science.org.au)
  • Prior to EPA's motion to vacate and remand the final rule, on January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis . (lawbc.com)
  • The specified agency actions include EPA's January 6, 2021, final rule on "Strengthening Transparency in Pivotal Science Underlying Significant Regulatory Actions and Influential Scientific Information. (lawbc.com)
  • We predicted that the final rule would likely be among the first items subject to reversal or "clarifying" guidance making it consistent with previously established science policies (see Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.'s (B&C®) Forecast 2021 memo ). (lawbc.com)
  • On 25 May 2021, more than 880 universities and research-performing and research-funding organisations united within CESAER , EUA , and Science Europe call on all publishers to stop requiring researchers to sign over their rights and to end the use of restrictions and embargoes. (scienceeurope.org)
  • This week, a House Committee held a hearing to review an Environmental Protection Agency proposal called 'Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science. (sciencefriday.com)
  • The proposal is called Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science. (sciencefriday.com)
  • The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, abbreviated BITSS, is an academic initiative dedicated to advancing transparency, reproducibility, and openness in social science research. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the surface principles and approaches that prioritize transparency, collaboration, and openness in scientific research might appear to contradict with the need to safeguard the privacy of research participants or minimize threats to national or international security. (vt.edu)
  • Its philosophy proposes openness about data, sources and methodology to make research more efficient and sustainable as well as bringing science into the public. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • If the US and China don't go along with it and continue to play the old game, then any move towards transparency and openness will be a competitive disadvantage. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • Disclosure of such information is intended to promote transparency and scientific integrity of data and technical information submitted to the record. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Taking this drive towards transparency to its logical conclusion is the idea of a 'registered report', i.e. to document and publish the process from the ideation stage onwards, regardless of the outcome of the study. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • Improving the transparency of meta-analyses with interactive web applications. (cdc.gov)
  • Elephant paths: Wider methodological transparency is needed for legal scholarship to thrive. (lse.ac.uk)
  • In this post, Tolibjon Mustafoev shares his preliminary analysis on critical reflections and methodological considerations of Transparency International's standardization method for generating the Corruption Perceptions Index. (lu.se)
  • The National Institute of Health (NIH) requires formal instruction in Scientific Rigor, Reproducibility & Transparency (R2T) for all federally-funded trainees. (uab.edu)
  • The BITSS Annual Meeting brought together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics. (berkeley.edu)
  • The point of the survey is proactively coming together in a spirit of transparency and collegiality, and offering some (but not complete, perfect) insights into our field, and so enter what you feel safe and comfortable with. (google.com)
  • Through its Catalyst program, the initiative also supports and empowers over 150 graduate students, faculty, librarians, and early career researchers to advance open science all over the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our study supports those policy-makers and researchers that call for higher price transparency. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • The Science Media Centre collected the following expert commentary from New Zealand researchers. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • CESAER, the European University Association (EUA), and Science Europe call on all publishers to fully respect researchers' rights and to end the use of restrictions and embargoes. (scienceeurope.org)
  • CESAER, EUA, and Science Europe outline how all publishers must fully respect researchers' rights by providing clarity and transparency on Open Access. (scienceeurope.org)
  • In a study published in Behavioral Sciences & the Law , researchers at Georgia State University sought to understand whether attention to the costs of incarceration decreases support for criminal sentences . (databasefootball.com)
  • In the quest for better human-AI interaction, a team of researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created a new tool called Bayes-TrEx that allows developers and users to gain transparency into their AI model. (mit.edu)
  • Dennie Hebels and Rianne Fijten talk about progress, the Open Science Festival and what researchers can do. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • There are many things researchers can do but, effectively, it boils down to transparency and impact," explains Maastricht University Library's Open Science Officer Dennie Hebels, "so, transparency about how you do research and also about failures. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • The so-called "transparency in science" rule, first proposed by former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in 2018, is basically intended to limit EPA's use of scientific studies. (panna.org)
  • EPA's Scientific Advisory Board had a number of very reasonable concerns about the transparency rule. (panna.org)
  • Here's a historical example of a policy that would have been affected by this "transparency" proposal: EPA's 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments were based on Harvard University research, known as the Six Cities study , that made use of confidential data from study participants. (panna.org)
  • A public process through an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking will help inform EPA's efforts to promote the transparency and safety of unconventional oil and gas activities while strengthening protection of our air, water, land and communities. (farmanddairy.com)
  • The annual meeting of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) featured presentations of several recent and promising efforts to increase transparency in economics, political science, psychology, and biostatistics. (berkeley.edu)
  • Catalyst Thomas Brailey developed a set of training materials to help transition J-PAL's Payments and Governance Research Program ( PGRP ) towards a version-controlled research pipeline by onboarding all research team members to GitHub, GitHub desktop, and R. These teaching materials can be applied to onboard other research/lab teams across a variety of contexts in social science research. (bitss.org)
  • ISLAMABAD, July 25: Elections alone cannot bring democracy but transparency and accountability in the governance system can really empower the citizens. (dawn.com)
  • One of their first steps was reading and analyzing reports on transparency and governance in Uzbekistan. (lu.se)
  • Social science is the systematic search for patterns in society and in human conduct and the subsequent effort to explain those patterns. (thiscenturysreview.com)
  • BITSS has supported or led several metascience research projects including the State of Social Science (3S) study and the Social Science Meta-Analysis and Research Transparency (SSMART) portfolio. (wikipedia.org)
  • BITSS also manages MetaArxiv, an interdisciplinary archive hosted on OSF Preprints of articles focused on metascience, research transparency, and reproducibility. (wikipedia.org)
  • The original anti-science rule EPA proposed was restricted to dose-response data and models, but now it's meant to cover all data reviewed by the agency for rulemaking. (panna.org)
  • These proposed changes are under the guise of increasing transparency, but in reality they are not serving the public - instead, they're serving the interests of industries that don't like the use of public health data in rulemaking. (panna.org)
  • This panel will bring together voices from the Office of Export and Secure Research Compliance , the Privacy and Research Data Protection program , and University Libraries to discuss the compelling ethical reasons why both research security and open science are critical considerations as we strive to conduct collaborative research with partners from around the world. (vt.edu)
  • The template README follows best practices as defined by a number of data editors at social science journals. (bitss.org)
  • The most recent version is available at https://social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_README/ . (bitss.org)
  • Specific releases can be found at https://github.com/social-science-data-editors/template_README/releases . (bitss.org)
  • By requiring transparency, scientists will be required to publish hypothesis and experimental data for other scientists to review and discuss, requiring the science to withstand skepticism and peer review. (sciencefriday.com)
  • For Amazon's Climate Pledge to be a credible effort we need far more transparency than simply reporting emissions data. (greenpeace.org)
  • And obviously, from the beginning, our bedrock has been transparency and trust-and building that trust-and we do that with an incredibly rigorous research, data collection, and testing facility that we do. (techonomy.com)
  • Ataccama's spend transparency solution for life sciences answers a challenge facing many organizations in the industry: regulatory demands for accurate spend reporting based on fragmented data stored across disparate data sources. (ataccama.com)
  • As Warren points out, people are prepared to pay for social science data. (irblog.eu)
  • A €565,000 fine faced by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs for data protection breaches demonstrates why it is crucial for data controllers to follow the 'transparency principle' under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), according to two legal experts. (pinsentmasons.com)
  • The GDPR transparency principle establishes that people must be able to find and understand information that data processors share with them, and that processors must provide the information in a reasonable timeframe. (pinsentmasons.com)
  • Andre Walter of Pinsent Masons said: "The decision of the DDPA shows once again the importance of the transparency principle under the GDPR, and in particular full transparency regarding the sharing of personal data with third parties. (pinsentmasons.com)
  • At the same time cloud promises rapid scaling to meet public health emergency response needs and fosters efficient access to new and emerging data science tools. (cdc.gov)
  • 2] A prediction model that and transparency of such risk adjustment models, and to widen uses a `history of coronary heart disease' as a risk factor to predict discussion on the strengths and limitations of risk adjustment models death from an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is always going based on service claims data. (who.int)
  • Does Open Science advance research? (uni-augsburg.de)
  • It has worked with the Center for Open Science to define and promote a set of best practices for social scientists to maximize transparency in their research. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their annual Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) provides an overview of and hands-on practice with tools and practices for transparent and reproducible social science research. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their Massive Open Online Course "Transparent and Open Social Science Research," based on a UC Berkeley course taught by Edward Miguel, is available on the FutureLearn platform. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Social Science Reproduction Platform (SSRP) crowdsources and catalogs attempts to assess and improve the computational reproducibility of social science research. (wikipedia.org)
  • BITSS has also incubated an initiative on Open Policy Analysis (OPA), which seeks to strengthen connections between research and policy and reduce political polarization by translating open science practices to policy analysis. (wikipedia.org)
  • New Zealand's trusted, independent source of information for the media on all issues related to research, science, and innovation. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the Science family of journals, today announced the acquisition of "Peer Review Evaluation" (PRE), a web-based service that promotes public trust in science by making the review of original research more transparent and verifiable. (aaas.org)
  • ARIES is the "Appalachian Research Initiative for Environmental Science (ARIES). (scienceblogs.com)
  • Science Europe's 2022 Annual Report highlights the most important achievements of 2022 on Science Europe's priority topics, including research culture, research assessment, open science, EU framework programmes, the green and digital transition, and science communication. (scienceeurope.org)
  • Instructors can use the SSRP in applied social science courses at the graduate or undergraduate levels to teach fundamental concepts, methods, and reproducible research practices. (bitss.org)
  • During this day and a half, a packed room of academics, funders, and journal editors discussed different strategies to increase the coordination among transparency initiatives, promote knowledge-sharing and innovation, and foster the adoption of effective transparency tools by the research community. (berkeley.edu)
  • Joshua Wallach is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and a member of the Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency. (sciencefriday.com)
  • On the company's website under 'Our Science' the company refers to NAD+ research dating back as far as 2014. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • Ultimately, their research illustrated that transparency in stress testing leads to improvements in systemic risk and measurable effects of market discipline. (nyu.edu)
  • Transparency International is excited to announce the launch of the Knowledge Hub, a dedicated online space for our research. (transparency.org)
  • Since returning to the University of Maryland as a professor of computer science with joint appointments in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research , he shared his experiences and insight in an interview with UMD's College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. (umd.edu)
  • Pablo E. Paredes Castro, who joined UMD this semester as an assistant professor of computer science, says his research is focused on the. (umd.edu)
  • U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to help secure federal funding for research in the social sciences . (irblog.eu)
  • As illustrated by the fact that I'm posting this directly after two reports about advocacy groups publishing social science research, this is an important debate! (irblog.eu)
  • Alternative measures include educational activities, leadership qualities, social impact as well as public engagement, i.e. involving society in research as would be the case with citizen science. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • LUCSUS has a well-established, diverse and international research environment to support our PhD candidates through solid science and proven experience. (lu.se)
  • Since 1995 Transparency International with the Internet Centre for Corruption Research at the University of Passau in Germany has analyzed the level of corruption perception in more than 180 countries around the world. (lu.se)
  • PRE's technology, now backed by AAAS, creates a powerful platform for promoting transparency and integrity in the peer review process across the scholarly publishing community. (aaas.org)
  • The determination, which came as something of a surprise given the ingredient's market history, has raised questions of fairness and transparency. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • Until or unless government servant or Public Authority is motivated to maintain transparency and accountability nothing can be solved. (dawn.com)
  • Equity, transparency, and accountability: open science for the 21st century. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although it may be obvious to legal scholars, to the untrained eye there often seems to be a lack of any methodology, which disqualifies the academic value of the legal discipline compared to other social sciences and has significant consequences with respect to the allocation of funds. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The CEGA-managed Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) held its 10th Annual Meeting on February 10-11, 2022. (berkeley.edu)
  • Wood, Abby K., Voters Use Campaign Finance Transparency and Compliance Information (January 18, 2022). (ssrn.com)
  • As Transparency International celebrates its 25th anniversary, we are witnessing a worrying situation where democratic progression has slowed to a near halt. (transparency.org)
  • Transparency International celebrates its 20th anniversary in Berlin. (irblog.eu)
  • This underlines the urgent need for transparency and anti-corruption efforts to create a safer world. (transparency.org)
  • I'm interested in international organizations, norm and policy diffusion, the politics of anti-corruption, and global IR / sociology of science. (irblog.eu)
  • Furthermore, the Global Corruption Report is Transparency International's flagship publication, bringing the expertise of the anti-corruption movement to bear on a specific corruption issue or sector. (lu.se)
  • Using vignette and conjoint survey experiments, I show that voters in primary elections incorporate transparency and compliance considerations into candidate selection. (ssrn.com)
  • The authors argue that this lack of transparency means organizations that set prices through external price referencing risk overpaying. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • But the flipside is that this "lack of transparency" probably allows organizations that set prices through other means (such as tendering for supply, or negotiating for 'packages' of drugs ) to pay less than other countries. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • Up until now the use of IMSI-catchers around the world has been shrouded in mystery, and this lack of concrete information is a barrier to informed public discussion," said co-lead author Peter Ney, a doctoral student at the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the UW. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Even though California was first to have a state official propose path-breaking private equity transparency legislation, as we've written, that effort was already falling short of its promise due to the lack of definition of key terms in the bill. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • [16, 17] Lack of algorithmic transparency can be a major impediment to the assessment and control of new occupational safety and health risks. (cdc.gov)
  • A series of 16 Blue Papers and special reports were commissioned by the Ocean Panel to form a comprehensive assessment of ocean science and knowledge. (wri.org)
  • To tackle this issue, the Center for Impact has developed the Open For Good™ platform, which offers a comprehensive assessment of corporate transparency across ESG categories. (ucla.edu)
  • By consistently providing this wealth of financial information and other metrics, our aim is to empower librarians and stakeholders with the necessary information to make well-informed decisions regarding the model," said Anne Ruimy, Senior Publisher for Mathematics titles at EDP Sciences. (edpsciences.org)
  • The Transparency Index below highlights the 20 companies that have the highest rates of disclosure on the 39 metrics covering ESG topics chosen by the Open For Good™ project. (ucla.edu)
  • The Open For Good™ Transparency Index puts equal weight on all of the metrics across ESG topics. (ucla.edu)
  • UMD also ranks in the Top 20 in five computer science specialties: Game Development: #4 public, #9 overall Cybersecurity : #5 public, #9 overall Artificial Intelligence : #8 public, #16 overall Software Engineering: #10 public, #13 overall UMD's computer science graduate program ranks 17th in the nation according to the latest list from U.S. News. (umd.edu)
  • The technology - launched in 2014 by the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc. (JBJS), and acquired by AAAS on 30 June 2015 - is consistent with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing , Anderson noted. (aaas.org)
  • She learned about Open Science during an internship and started implementing some principles during her PhD. "At the time, it was often a struggle to make co-authors see the utility of publishing Open access. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • Phenomenal transparency and cognitive self-reference. (bvsalud.org)
  • Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2, 353-393. (bvsalud.org)
  • Saying that scientific content has been peer-reviewed is no longer enough to overcome the mistrust in science that has resulted in part from the variability of journal practices," said Marcia McNutt, editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals. (aaas.org)
  • This rule has shown up as proposed legislation in the House several times in the past, but recently proposed changes will make it even worse for science and public health. (panna.org)
  • Lamar Smith, the former Republican head of the science committee in the House, introduced legislation that would do just this. (sciencefriday.com)
  • Science r eporter Lisa Friedman from the New York Times discusses how this proposal could be used to weaken regulations and discount certain scientific studies. (sciencefriday.com)
  • In recent years, BITSS has begun developing digital infrastructure to enable open science practices. (wikipedia.org)
  • By presenting users with a simple visual 'badge,' the PRE technology provides information about each step in the peer-review process and the practices and values of journals," Science Publisher Kent Anderson said. (aaas.org)
  • Science Publisher Kent Anderson added that AAAS is also exploring leveraging PRE to support open science practices and the feasibility of certification and training services for peer reviewers and publishers as part of PRE's development roadmap. (aaas.org)
  • Today's webinar will draw upon communication science, behavioral science, and the experiences of emergency responders to offer some best practices for overcoming message resistance. (cdc.gov)
  • At Science 2.0, scientists are the journalists, with no political bias or editorial control. (science20.com)
  • Those two aspects making inner states of mind transparent and the socio-political effects of making them transparent should produce public interest in committing social scientists to the rules of transparency, and in addition, it ought to produce in the social scientists themselves a commitment to the rules of transparency. (thiscenturysreview.com)
  • Open Science could be seen as a response to the reproducibility crisis, or to the sustainability issues of the academic rat race, or to problematic publishing structures, or to public distrust in science… there are many reasons to skin a cat. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • Increased transparency in study design and analysis is one proposed solution to the perceived reproducibility crisis facing science. (cdc.gov)
  • The accompanying Guide for Accelerating Computational Reproducibility in the Social Sciences elucidates a common approach, terminology, and standards for conducting reproductions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Open Science, then, is more than a series of protocols: it's an approach that comes with an idea of how science ought to be. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • It was all thanks to a relentless detective, DNA evidence from the crime scene-and a tech innovator named Steven Armentrout (Ph.D. '94, computer science), whose company Parabon NanoLabs ("Parabon") is taking DNA innovation where it has never been before. (umd.edu)
  • Open Science for more transparency and visibility! (uni-augsburg.de)
  • Why Open Science? (uni-augsburg.de)
  • In 2015, BITSS began awarding the annual Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science to honor outstanding achievements and emerging leaders in promoting transparency in social science. (wikipedia.org)
  • Upon further inspection it can be seen that engaging in open science is not an all or nothing endeavor. (vt.edu)
  • The joint statement, signed by the presidents of the three organisations, is a strong show of support for Open Science and Open Access. (scienceeurope.org)
  • Science Europe welcomes the launch or renewal of national open science strategies in several European countries. (scienceeurope.org)
  • This is clearly the sort of transparency that - while it may short-term inconvenience some western governments - could help the secular trend toward an open world that (in turn) fosters and strengthens enlightenment nations and people. (blogspot.com)
  • Whether that's because those products are seen to be better supported by science or whether it's because of a very narrow interpretation of the letter of law when it comes to the 'drug exclusion clause' of DSHEA is open to interpretation. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • What exactly is Open Science? (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • Maastricht University (UM) is on the forefront of a big cultural change in academia: Open Science. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • UM has a thriving Open Science community. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • UM is also on its way to implementing other Open Science themes, such as Recognition & Rewards, Preregistration and Open Educational Resources. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • Dennie Hebels is Open Science Officer at the Maastricht University Library, ambassador for FHML at the Open Science Community Maastricht and project manager at MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • in fact, any move towards Open Science would be effectively irrational. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • Rianne Fijten is the founder of the Open Science Community Maastricht and, like most of its members, a researcher herself. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • We are a nonprofit science journalism group operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that's educated over 300 million people. (science20.com)
  • A PhD in Sustainability Science at LUCSUS means developing expertise in critical thinking and real-world problem-solving in a creative, interdisciplinary, and collegial international atmosphere. (lu.se)
  • The findings bring campaign finance transparency and compliance into the scholarly conversation about candidate valence. (ssrn.com)
  • Within the report, we update information on the partnership with Knowledge Unlatched, the exceptional revenue received from the Fonds National pour la Science Ouverte (FNSO) and the CNRS, as well as the invaluable contributions made by the Advisory Committee in governing the S2O program. (edpsciences.org)
  • Marc Schiltz, President of Science Europe: "The manuscript - even after peer-review - is the intellectual creation of the authors. (scienceeurope.org)
  • IRA FLATOW: Just to try to get some reaction, we did reach out to the EPA for comment, and they provided the statement that in part says, "Science transparency does not weaken science, quite the contrary. (sciencefriday.com)