Looking east: EMBO and Japan
New initiatives strengthen the existing collaborations between EMBO and Japan.
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DORA receives grant to accelerate research assessment reform
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) received a 1.2 million US dollar grant that will support the development of new policies and practices for academic career assessment. EMBO is one of the original signatories of the declaration.
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Review Commons is a Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2021
The journal-independent peer review platform created by EMBO and ASAPbio is in the top ten projects for Science and Innovation Management.
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Open science organizations collaborate on DocMaps – the foundation for a distributed peer review ecosystem
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, eLife/Sciety, EMBO and Knowledge Futures to pilot the DocMaps framework in community preprint reviews and evaluations.
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Are virtual meetings with us to stay?
Quo vadis, EMBO? EMBO Courses & Workshops have to prepare for the future after the pandemic. Gerlind Wallon, head of the programme, discusses options.
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Review Commons launches blog “The Commons”
Review Commons has launched a blog, The Commons, dedicated to discussing innovations in scientific publishing and the platform’s policies.
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“The international agenda of EMBO is important, today more than ever before”
Fiona Watt, the incoming EMBO Director, shares her views on EMBO and her own research aspirations
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Fiona Watt appointed as EMBO Director
The British cell biologist will take up the appointment in early 2022
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New policies on preprints and extended scooping protection
Review Commons is announcing two new policies today: As of August 1, 2021, Review Commons will require all authors to post their manuscript as a preprint, prior to transfer to an affiliate journal1. In return, all the affiliate journals provide authors with scooping protection from the date of posting of the preprint.
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Will Refereed Preprints transform scientific communication?
The pandemic has shown how preprints accelerate the dissemination of research findings, but it also highlights the crucial importance of peer review.
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