The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship
Group leaders Summary The advent of large language models has lately and precipitously increased the demand for scientific publications for AI training, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation. However, these use cases
Group leaders Summary This Working Group will explore the gap between global scholarly infrastructure and local research practices, with a focus on how persistent identifiers and related infrastructures are understood,
Group leaders Summary Scholarly publications play a crucial role in designing any hypothesis, projects, reports, thesis etc. and are helpful in making policies. Besides growing rapidly much of it remains
Group leaders Summary A growing set of actors are hosting large research information datasets in shared spaces, notably in Google BigQuery. This working group will act to coordinate amongst current
The disconnect between “what science says” — yielded as a shield to shut down a conversation rather than as contextual evidence to drive discussions forward — and the extent to which conclusions can be drawn from the referenced results of scientific studies is becoming increasingly apparent
A crowd-sourced mapping of peer review resources for a global research community to be informed and continue to co-create what we see as useful best practices and community standards
Librarians are looking for ways to evaluate publishers in order to make more informed collection investment decisions. A rubric that evaluates journal publishers’ practices for alignment with library values has been developed as part of the Library Partnership Rating (LPR)
Research is often more than the text content, and can include both the software and computational environments to reproduce work. These can be shared by researchers as computational notebooks, however, scholarly communications infrastructure is currently poorly positioned to both display, interact with, and archive that content
