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Data tracking in research: Aggregation and use or sale of usage data by academic publishers
by LMU Open Science Center News May 27, 2021

May 27, 2021

Dear list, in case you have missed this: The German Research Foundation issued a briefing paper about the digital tracking of researchers (and selling of that data) by academic publishers (see quoted email below). From the report: There is a risk that this shift in the commercial business model towards data analytics will result in the knowledge society becoming privatised, and that ultimately it will no longer be the public sector but increasingly private companies that are privy to knowledge about research content and trends, its institutions and stakeholders. Potentially, research tracking of this kind can fundamentally contradict academic freedom and informational self-determination. It can endanger scientists and hinder the freedom of compe- tition in the field of information provision. For this reason, scholars and academic instituti ons must become aware of the problem and clarify the legal, technical and ethical framework con- ditions of their information supply – not least so as to avoid involuntarily violating applicable law, but also to ensure that academics are appropriately informed and protected. This topic also has been covered in: * a recent comment in the „Frankfurter Allgemeine“ (in German): https://zeitung.faz.net/faz/geisteswissenschaften/2021-05-26/276e8404c41a1b… * a blog post by Renke Siems: https://elephantinthelab.org/when-your-journal-reads-you/ Please consider signing our petition https://stoptrackingscience.eu and join hundreds of other researchers standing up against this threat to academic freedom. Best, Felix --- Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Managing Director of the LMU Open Science Center | http://www.osc.lmu.de Psychological Methods and Assessment, Department Psychology | https://www.psy.lmu.de/pm/personen/lehrstuhlmitarbeiter/schoenbrodt/index.h… http://www.nicebread.de http://www.researchtransparency.org http://www.shinyapps.org Twitter: @nicebread303<https://twitter.com/nicebread303> ‌‌ ‌ Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: Allgemeine Information Nr. 43 20. Mai 2021 Datentracking in der Wissenschaft Informationspapier des Ausschusses für Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken und Informationssysteme ist erschienen Der Ausschuss für Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken und Informationssysteme (AWBI) der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) hat ein Informationspapier zum Thema „Datentracking in der Wissenschaft“ veröffentlicht. Dieses Informationspapier beschreibt die digitale Nachverfolgung von wissenschaftlichen Aktivitäten. Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler nutzen täglich eine Vielzahl von digitalen Informationsressourcen wie zum Beispiel Literatur- und Volltextdatenbanken. Häufig fallen dabei Nutzungsspuren an, die Aufschluss geben über gesuchte und genutzte Inhalte, Verweildauern und andere Arten der wissenschaftlichen Aktivität. Diese Nutzungsspuren können von den Anbietenden der Informationsressourcen festgehalten, aggregiert und weiterverwendet oder verkauft werden. Das Informationspapier legt die Transformation von Wissenschaftsverlagen hin zu Data Analytics Businesses dar, verweist auf die Konsequenzen daraus für die Wissenschaft und deren Einrichtungen und benennt die zum Einsatz kommenden Typen der Datengewinnung. Damit dient es vor allem der Darstellung gegenwärtiger Praktiken und soll zu Diskussionen über deren Konsequenzen für die Wissenschaft anregen. Es richtet sich an alle Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler sowie alle Akteure in der Wissenschaftslandschaft. Weiterführende Informationen Zum Informationspapier „Datentracking in der Wissenschaft“ des AWBI: www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/infrastruktur/lis/lis_awbi<http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/infrastruktur/lis/lis_awbi> Das Informationspapier ist auch auf Englisch verfügbar: www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/awbi<http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/awbi> Ansprechpartnerinnen in der Geschäftsstelle: Dr. Angela Holzer, Tel. +49 228 885-2568, angela.holzer(a)dfg.de<mailto:angela.holzer@dfg.de> Dr. Juliane Kant, Tel. +49 228 885-2009, juliane.kant(a)dfg.de<mailto:juliane.kant@dfg.de>

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June 1-3: Online Conference "Philosophy and Methodology of Medicine"
by LMU Open Science Center News May 14, 2021

May 14, 2021

[News from our website: https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/news/online_conference_philo_med/index.html] Online Conference: "Philosophy and Methodology of Medicine" organized by Dr. Jürgen Landes (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) and Dr. Michael Wild (University of Kent) 01.06.2021 – 03.06.2021 When: June 1st to June 3rd, 2021 (each day starting around 09:40 ) Where: Online (Registration via e-mail to Jürgen Landes<http://juergen.landes@lrz.uni-muenchen.de/>) Language: English We are incredibly excited to announce an interesting online conference by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP)<https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html>: "Philosophy and Methodology of Medicine" Idea & Motivation The claims of medicine have been supported by a wide variety of different methods, ranging from randomized controlled trials to expert judgement and mechanism-based reasoning. Miriam Solomon has therefore aptly characterized medicine in terms of a developing, untidy, methodological pluralism. But can philosophers help with this development? In recent years, philosophers of science have become increasingly interested in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the various methods employed in medicine. Some have defended the methodological superiority of randomized controlled trials, or at least meta-analyses of such trials. Others have challenged this superiority by on the one hand stressing the weaknesses of such methods in terms of their internal or external validity, and on the other hand emphasising the strengths of alternative methods, including methods involving expert judgement and mechanistic evidence. The online conference will bring together philosophers of science and medical methodologists in an attempt to make progress towards resolving these debates concerning the strengths and weaknesses of the various methods employed in medicine. Among others, the following topics will be covered within the conference: * Foundational issues in statistics in medicine * Bias in medical inference * Medical epistemology * Multi-agent medical epistemology * Mechanisms in medicine * Analogy and extrapolation in medicine * Expert judgement in medicine The conference is organized by Dr. Jürgen Landes<https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/people/faculty/juergen_landes/…>, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy<https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html> and member of the LMU Open Science Center (OSC)<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/index.html>, and Dr. Michael Wild<https://www.kent.ac.uk/european-culture-languages/people/1679/wilde-michael>, Admissions Officer for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kent<https://www.kent.ac.uk/philosophy>. More information about the schedule, all speakers and the presented topics can be found at the website of the conference<https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/events/workshops/container/met…>. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to juergen.landes(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de<mailto:%20juergen.landes@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> with the following subject line: "Registration: Philosophy and Methodology of Medicine". A registration covers all three days. Registered participants are not required to attend all talks. ____________________________________________________ [cid:2866B567-570F-4A89-A687-DDE12EE140C1] http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Unsubscribe<https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc> from the newsletter.

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June 1-2: Workshop “Prediction, Registration, and Replication of Scientific Findings”
by LMU Open Science Center News May 6, 2021

May 6, 2021

Dear colleagues, I am writing to announce a workshop “Prediction, Registration, and Replication of Scientific Findings”, which will take place on June 1-2, in an online format. The workshop is hosted by the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU and co-organized with the LMU Open Science Center. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bring together researchers from several disciplines to discuss recent developments in the agenda of transparent and reproducible science. Topics discussed in the workshop include, but not limited to: (i) preregistration and pre-analysis plan, (ii) prediction of experimental outcomes, (iii) registered reports, and (iv) peer review and selective reporting. You can see the list of speakers and the schedule here: https://www.taisukeimai.com/cas_workshop_2021/index.html From our OSC, Dr. Felix Schönbrodt and Dr. Sabine Hoffmann kindly agreed to be on board and speak about their recent works. If you are interested in participating, please register from the official workshop website at the CAS (https://www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de/events/conferences/ws_imai/index.html) Please contact me at taisuke.imai(a)econ.lmu.de<mailto:taisuke.imai@econ.lmu.de> if you have any questions. Kind regards, Taisuke Imai -- Taisuke Imai LMU Munich Department of Economics https://www.taisukeimai.com/ ____________________________________________________ [cid:8765873E-CB66-464D-A3C1-E469A850B588] http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Unsubscribe<https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc> from the newsletter.

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