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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson, Richard Van Noorden
Summary: The Biden administration has instructed all US agencies to require immediate access to federally funded research after it is published, starting in 2026.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Max Kozlov
Summary: The data-sharing policy has the potential to establish a global standard for biomedical research, according to scientists, but they have concerns regarding logistics and equity.
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Chemistry, Physical
Yang Gao, Simin Yang, Yanping Huo, Qian Chen, Xianwei Li, Xiao-Qiang Hu
Summary: A highly efficient NiH catalytic system was developed for the selective hydroamination of alkynes, leading to structurally diverse quinolines. This method is applicable to a wide range of alkynes and has shown utility in the functionalization of natural products and the synthesis of complex molecules. Preliminary mechanistic experiments suggest an alkenylnickel-mediated alkyne hydroamination and intramolecular cyclization of enamine intermediates.
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Qianjin Zong, Zhihong Huang, Jiaru Huang
Summary: This study aimed to examine the effect of open access on policy impact by analyzing research articles in the field of library and information science. The findings revealed that open access has a significant and positive impact on policy impact.
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Bernd Pulverer
Summary: Starting from 2024, The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports will join EMBO Molecular Medicine, Molecular Systems Biology, and Life Science Alliance as Open Access journals, taking another step towards the goal of an integrated Open Science approach for disseminating highly selected and curated science.
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Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Qian Chen, Zilong Wang, Jiawei Chen, Haonan Yan, Xiaodong Lin
Summary: This article proposes a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG)-assisted adaptive federated learning (Dap-FL) system to address the resource heterogeneity problem in conventional FL. It introduces locally deployed DDPG-assisted adaptive hyper-parameter selection schemes to adaptively adjust the local learning rates and training epochs of resource-heterogeneous clients. The article also introduces the Paillier cryptosystem for secure and privacy-preserving aggregation of local models. Experimental results demonstrate that Dap-FL achieves higher model prediction accuracy and faster convergence rates compared to state-of-the-art RL-assisted FL methods.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
(2023)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Mallory K. Ellingson, Xiaoting Shi, Joshua J. Skydel, Kate Nyhan, Richard Lehman, Joseph S. Ross, Joshua D. Wallach
Summary: In 2019, medical researchers paid a wide range of fees for publishing in fee-based open access journals, with high-impact researchers paying significantly higher fees than general researchers.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Juan Pablo Alperin
Summary: The payment method used by the global north inhibits public and scholar-led publishing efforts in Latin America.
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Geochemistry & Geophysics
Sian Liao, Yongsong Huang
Summary: Group 2i Isochrysidales microalgae exhibit rapid growth at low temperatures, showing a preference for cold environments in high latitude oceans and saline lakes. Salinity has minimal impact on their growth rates, and C37:4% can be used as a proxy for sea ice.
ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY
(2022)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Shlomit Hadad, Noa Aharony, Daphne R. Raban
Summary: This study investigated the longitudinal impact of Open-Access (OA) publication in Israel and found a consistent citation advantage. The study also revealed the influence of funding on OA publications. These findings provide comprehensive insights into the impact of OA policies and emphasize the importance of funding agencies and the global scientific community.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Logesvar Balaguru, Chen Dun, Andrea Meyer, Sanuri Hennayake, Christi Walsh, Christopher Kung, Brittany Cary, Frank Migliarese, Tinglong Dai, Ge Bai, Kathleen Sutcliffe, Martin Makary
Summary: In 2020, NIH allocated 2.0% of its budget (US$2.2 billion) for COVID-19 research among a total of 56,169 grants awarded. The most common areas of research funded were social determinants of health, immunology, and pharmaceutical interventions. The average time from funding opportunity announcement to award notice date was 151 days.
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Psychology, Biological
Jamie Horder
Summary: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has announced a new policy framework requiring US federally funded research to be freely available upon publication, no later than January 2026. Dr. Alondra Nelson, head of the OSTP, discusses the background and implications of this widely discussed decision in an interview with Nature Human Behaviour.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
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Ecology
Yves P. Klinger, R. Lutz Eckstein, Till Kleinebecker
Summary: Photo observations are a valuable source of citizen science data that is rarely used. The use of smartphone applications for species identification has increased the availability of photo observations, allowing for ecological insights in poorly studied subjects. The iPhenology workflow proposed in this study utilizes publicly available photo observations to track phenological events at large scales, specifically focusing on plant reproductive cycles. Although there may be variation in the number and quality of observations, overall, CS photo observations can significantly advance our knowledge of plant phenology, and integrating the workflow with automated image processing may enable real-time tracking in the future.
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Layal Liverpool
Summary: The group behind Plan S is proposing a more radical revolution for science publishing, after already accelerating the open-access movement.
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Health Policy & Services
Stefan Reichmann, Bernhard Wieser
Summary: This article questions the potential of open science practices to enhance research uptake at the science-policy interface and argues that this hope is based on an oversimplified understanding of the interface. The authors find that improving communication alone is not enough to foster research uptake.
HEALTH RESEARCH POLICY AND SYSTEMS
(2022)