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A Registered Report is a type of research journal article in which the introduction, methods, and analysis plan are proposed and peer-reviewed prior to the execution of the study. The goal is to limit publication bias based on study findings by conducting peer review on the merits of the study before the results are known. First introduced in 2012 (Chambers, 2013; Chambers & Tzavella, 2022), this format of journal article publication has become more commonplace. Here we provide an overview of the format as well as eight core lessons we learned while preparing Registered Reports. We integrate guidelines from the literature with our experience to provide insight into the process of preparing and publishing a Registered Report for those who have not yet tried it. Though Registered Reports require researchers to invest more effort at the earlier stages of idea generation, design, and analysis planning, they will benefit from the feedback of reviewers when it is most beneficial and leave behind the fear of rejection due to unanticipated study limitations or null results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents the results of a qualitative analysis of the use of the HAL platform by research laboratories. The analysis is based on semi-directive interviews with representatives from 50 laboratories affiliated to the ten Udice research universities. It focuses on the function that HAL fulfils for the laboratories, on its added value for their operation and their development. In particular, we are questioning the purposes of the use of HAL by the laboratories, the use of internal and external tools, and the trajectories of practices. We discuss the results from three angles: the discourses and communities of practice in the laboratories; the scope and challenges of the systems put in place by the laboratories upstream and downstream of HAL; and the transformation of HAL from a platform for self-archiving and direct scientific communication to an infrastructure for monitoring and evaluating scientific performance. This is the first in a series of three articles from the HAL/LO project.

A travers une analyse systémique de l’édition scientifique en France – et plus particulièrement via une étude des contextes historiques, socio-économiques et politique – cet article soulève les problématiques éthiques qui ont jalonné la construction de l’écosystème scientifique et l’exploitation des produits de la recherche, et livre une réflexion sur les défis éthiques liés à la mise en place depuis 2018 de la politique de la Science Ouverte mais aussi des conséquences directes que cela va avoir sur les pratiques des chercheurs.

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Continuing Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology's ongoing commitment to Open Science, we invited Oshiro et al. (2024) to submit a peer-reviewed tutorial of the typical format and to offer key pieces of advice when preparing Registered Reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Context and background: The knowledge society is a paradigm shift in form and substance. Open Science (OS) is a worldwide movement that aims to make research products accessible and that is accelerating with technological potential. It is based on a number of principles: broad and unfettered access and dissemination, sharing and spin-off of research products with civil society. Purpose and analysis: SO includes free and open access to articles, access to source data, data analysis, availability of preprints, open evaluation. In this context, the French-speaking world, through the heterogeneity of its situations and its linguistic homogeneity, appears to be a privileged field for observation and experimentation. GRISOF, which works to improve French-speaking research in medical science and health, proposes, based on its experience, a few practical keys for clinical researchers, biomedical researchers and public health researchers, directs its reflection towards evaluation and intensifies its roadmap on training. If English is the predominant language, automatic language processing (ALP) is a technological opportunity. Open access to articles provides an opportunity for work in French to become better known, just as digital translation provides access to articles in other languages. Conclusion: Open access to articles improves the depth and breadth of students' knowledge. It is an essential component of research learning. Engaging students in open publication of their own work is a way to raise awareness of open science practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Le vent du changement provoqué par la révolution numérique bouleverse et transforme profondément l’archivistique contemporaine. Les acteurs de la discipline se retrouvent face à une gestion très complexe des documents et données numériques à cause de la croissance volumétrique sans précédent et dont les formats de fichiers, les matériels, les logiciels de gestion et de communication de ces documents et données sont victimes de l’obsolescence absolument très accélérée conduite depuis 1965 par la loi de Gordon Earle Moore appelée « Loi de Moore ». Notre article propose des dispositifs à travers les panorama et perspectives de la science ouverte pour ce qui est de l’obsolescence et, de la ‘’macro-évaluation, outils génériques d’évaluation pour ce qui est de la croissance volumétrique. Une collaboration multidisciplinaire voire transdisciplinaire est sollicitée afin de braver ces verrous ou menottes numériques posés par la volumétrie et l’obsolescence.

Dans le cadre d’une recherche sur l’application des principes de la science ouverte au domaine de la bioéconomie, nous avons mené une étude scientométrique de la production scientifique de la France dans ce domaine, pour la période de 2015 à 2019. L’étude a permis d’identifier 1913 publications dans la base de données Scopus. Nous avons analysé ce corpus sous différents aspects : types et sources des documents, avec volumétrie et impact ; auteurs, organismes et établissements ; sources de financement ; degré d’internationalité et taux d’ouverture (libre accès). La discussion porte sur la terminologie et les sources d’une telle étude scientométrique, sur l’accessibilité des publications et sur la position de la France dans ce domaine. La conclusion propose quelques recommandations pour la conduite d’une étude similaire, notamment à destination des professionnels de l’information.

Research information systems (CRIS) evaluate research achievements and should contribute to the continuous improvement of research. Based on an online survey and interviews with experts from the euroCRIS organization, this research paper gives an overview of the ethical aspects in the field of research information management and shows how CRIS represent ethical dimensions of scientific research and how their development, implementation and functioning should comply with common ethical standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Citizen Science is one of the eight objectives defined within the European Commission's Open Science policies. It is based on collaboration between scientists, researchers and institutions with the public in the scientific investigation process. Libraries, archives and museums can be active partners in the scope of Citizen Science, supporting "non-professional" researchers in the performance of their work, through the identification and description of documents, including photographs. Social indexing refers to the free and personal tagging of information and Web resources in an open and shared environment. Platforms that allow social indexing of photographs are used for dissemination, but also as aggregators of contributions from the general public. The overall goal is to regulate the social indexing of photographs from public and private institutions within the concept of Citizen Science to assess how citizen participation provides beneficial results to institutions. The methodology is based on a selective bibliographic research and on the content analysis of collected texts. This study identifies advantages for institutions in using Citizen Science activities, namely the promotion of practices of social indexing of photographs through Web platforms, as a way of implementing a more exhaustive description and indexing of their collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The approach to epistemic cultures exposes the differences in the construction of the processes of production and creation of knowledge between the different academic fields, which, in turn, implies the fragmentation of knowledge. The digital humanities are an inter and transdisciplinary field composed of different epistemic cultures marked by different knowledge production practices that differ from each other. In the current scenario of academic communication, the discourse around open practices in the course of research has increasingly taken a prominent place. However, this discourse, under the open science paradigm, proves to be more framed in the context of the epistemic cultures of science, and does not fully consider other domains of knowledge. This study aims to frame the epistemic cultures of the digital humanities in the discourse of openness of knowledge, through a literature review about digital humanities and open science. Its conclusion points to the need to adopt a specific discourse around the openness of knowledge, which considers the diversity of academic communication practices, including those that are specific to the humanities, as well as to the fact that the digital humanities can contribute to the consolidation of this discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La qualité de la recherche scientifique s’évalue non seulement par son impact positif sur le développement socio-économique et le bien-être humain, mais également par sa contribution à l’élaboration des connaissances scientifiques valides et fiables. De ce fait, les chercheurs, quelle que soit leur discipline scientifique, sont censés adopter des pratiques de recherche basées sur la transparence et la rigueur. Or l’histoire des sciences et la littérature scientifique nous apprennent qu’une part importante des résultats scientifiques n’est pas reproductible de façon systématique (Ioannidis, 2005)1. Cela renvoie à ce qui est communément connu sous le nom de la « crise de réplication » qui concerne aussi bien les sciences de la nature que les sciences humaines et sociales, dont la psychologie ne fait pas exception. Dans cet article, nous présentons d’abord certains aspects de la crise de réplication et les pratiques de recherche douteuses. Puis, nous abordons la manière dont nous pouvons impliquer plus de laboratoires en Afrique dans la recherche scientifique mondiale, notamment le Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA). Dans ce sens, nous développerons un tutoriel pour les laboratoires en Afrique, en mettant en avant les pratiques de la science ouverte. Enfin, nous discutons de comment rendre la science psychologique plus participative et inclusive.

Cet article présente de manière non exhaustive les récentes transformations de l'environnement académique de la revue Recherche et Applications en Marketing. Tout d'abord, la transformation de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche est évoquée. Ensuite, la question du classement des revues est abordée. Enfin, le tournant de la Science Ouverte est examiné. Ces trois champs de transformations ne sont pas sans poser des questions sur l'avenir de la revue Recherche et Applications en Marketing, dont les réponses reviennent à l'ensemble de la communauté. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Communication research has recently entered the discussion on open science. Through the lens of Normalization Process Theory, this preregistered qualitative study addresses how open science has been normalized within the field of mass communication. Through 19 semistructured in-depth interviews with communication scholars from across the globe and different career stages, the results reflect that scholars are driven to implement open science for idealistic, research-oriented, and political reasons. Yet, scholars have reservations regarding open science’s feasibility and concerns for participant privacy. In particular, this study identifies issues of coherence in open science that are key to its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cet article vise à offrir une vision d'ensemble des récentes évolutions des pratiques de recherche en psychologie. Un rappel des différents symptômes de la crise de la réplicabilité (et de confiance) ayant affecté la psychologie sera suivi par une discussion approfondie et nuancée des facteurs responsables de cette situation. Il s'agira ensuite, en s'appuyant sur des illustrations et des ressources, de démontrer le rôle crucial des pratiques de recherche ouvertes comme moyen de résoudre ces difficultés. La connaissance et l'adoption de ces pratiques de recherche popularisées par le mouvement de la science ouverte sont indispensables afin de contribuer, via la transparence et l'ouverture, à l'effort collectif d'amélioration de la fiabilité et de la réplicabilité des résultats en psychologie. This article aims to provide an overview of the recent developments of research practices in psychology. A review of the different symptoms of the crisis of replicability (and of confidence) that affected psychology will be followed by an in-depth and nuanced discussion of the factors responsible for this situation. Then, the next step will be to demonstrate, using illustrations and resources, the crucial role of open research practices to address these challenges. Knowledge and adoption of these research practices popularized by the open science movement are essential to contribute, through transparency and openness, to the collective effort to improve the reliability and replicability of psychological results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the unavailability of national government support and perpetual scarcity of resources, there are indications that the number of natural language processing (NLP) studies on Nigerian languages is growing. This study collates information about the resources, institutional structures, and financial sources that support the research of Nigerian languages from published scientific articles. Relevant publications were systematically retrieved from Google, Web of Science, and Scopus. Information on research data availability, authors' institutional affiliation, and funding acknowledgement was collected from the full texts of the NLP publications for analysis. Results reveal that only 14.28% of the published papers shared 18 different resources (speech and textual corpora, electronic dictionary, and source codes) online, and 27.95% of the articles were funded. Support for the NLP of Nigerian languages was significantly higher from outside Nigeria—for instance, most of the funding sources were from the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Secondly, more papers were written by authors that were affiliated with institutions outside Nigeria than authors from within Nigeria. Thirdly, most of the available resources on online repositories were shared by authors that were affiliated with institutions outside Nigeria. The top five research hubs on the NLP of Nigerian languages are Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; the University of Uyo, Nigeria; African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria; and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Instances of research collaboration between Nigerian and foreign universities for NLP capacity building were identified. This study provides an insight into the existing structure and resources for the NLP of Nigerian languages, which could be harnessed by stakeholders for the development of Nigerian languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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