The ORION Open Science Podcast
Education
Episode Summary:
In this episode we are discussing Unpaywall. Unpaywall is a database and browser extension that legally searches for Open Access versions of research papers. Our interview guest will be Heather Piwowar who co-developed and manages Unpaywall. We will cover how and why Unpaywall was developed, and the issues with current Open Science tools.
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Episode Quotes:
“It is cool to see the green unlock icon, which if you click it takes you immediately to a free article, right beside a big box on a publisher’s page that says ‘$39 to view’. It feels like we are really unlocking the power of Open Access”.
A Week's Worth of SciComm: Berlin Science Week and the Value of Science Communication
Compound Interest: Discussing the EU Open Screen Project at the MDC
You Don't Say! Emma Dorris on Public Engagement and How Discussions with the Public Improve Research
A Public Scandal: Paola Masuzzo on the Absurdity of Locking Up Knowledge
The FAIR is in Town: figshare, The Turing Way, and Open Science Quest at the OSFAIR2019
Laying it all out: How The Science Breaker is supporting lay summaries and science communication
A Skeptic's Guide to Open Science: Steven Novella on tackling biases, publication noise, and pseudoscience
A Metric for Optimism: John Ioannidis on Reproducibility, Preregistration, and Data Sharing
'There is no spoon': Imagining Science Without Journals
Public Money? Public Code: What 'Free' Software Really Means in Research
An Ignoble Pursuit: Laughing and Thinking about Science Communication and the Ig Nobel Prize
Signing up to Open Science: Open Peer Review and Aligning Core Values
Open Data: FAIR, foul, and meta
Retraction Watch, Research Integrity, and Peer Review
Aubrey De Grey, Aging, and Alternative Approaches to Research
Communicating Animal Research Part 2
Communicating Animal Research Part 1
Preprints: what do scientists think?
Rewriting Diversity: Editing Wikipedia and Opening Science
Is science self-correcting?
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