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SciCrunch announces Luxembourg collaboration
The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg is partnering with SciCrunch. The LCSB will be one of the first
academic institutions to use the firm’s SciScore – an automated validation tool for scientific articles – as part of its internal quality control process. It will contribute to further enhance the rigour and reproducibility of the publications written by LCSB’s researchers. Scientific research always faces new challenges and, with the increasing volume of data, the complexity of new tools and the fast pace of modern science, ensuring that experiments can be repeated and results validated is as crucial as ever. Over the past years, the scientific
community has widely acknowledged that the reproducibility crisis needs to be addressed in order to guarantee trust in the published literature and best use of valuable resources. Early on, the LCSB recognised
reproducibility as a key topic and decided to tackle the issue by implementing measures to promote research quality. Grouped under the umbrella of the Responsible and Reproducible Research (R3) initiative, they include state-of-the- art IT infrastructures, GDPR-compliant data processes and tools for high- quality scientific computing code. ‘A particular emphasis has been placed on a standardised publication workflow which will now be complemented through the
Chorus deal ‘enhances open research audit process’
Chorus, the non-profit membership organisation, is now using Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) technology to speed up and enhance their open research audit process. The organisation is applying the GetFTR API to further automate the gathering and checking of key data on journal articles and conference proceedings from multiple publishers, supporting its mission of advancing sustainable, cost-effective public access to content reporting on research funded by public organisations. For GetFTR, this means its
technology is being used in increasingly innovative ways
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By using GetFTR to
automate the metadata feed from millions of individual Versions of Record (the definitive version of a journal article), Chorus is now supported in scaling the auditing of some of its largest publisher members, including the American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis Group and Wiley. Additionally, GetFTR will enable Chorus’ reporting to be more timely, as its auditing process gets faster. Howard Ratner, Chorus
executive director, said: ‘Before integrating the GetFTR
data feed, Chorus used a combination of manual and automated processes to audit whether article and conference proceedings versions of record or accepted manuscripts were open on a publisher’s website. ‘Using GetFTR complements
our own auditing process, as it can rapidly check our records against a publisher’s access control systems, without interacting with the HTML of multiple publisher sites. ‘While it doesn’t fully replace Chorus’ own audit processes (because not every publisher is using GetFTR and because it doesn’t yet support open Accepted Manuscripts),
Chorus will be encouraging our members to get involved with GetFTR.’ GetFTR launched its pilot in
late 2019 and has since been welcoming partners, building and evolving the service after feedback from all scholarly community sectors. GetFTR’s primary purpose has been to increase speed and ease of accessing research by making it clear which content researchers can access across different publisher and research platforms. The GetFTR service is now being used by six publishers and eight integrating partners. Find out more at
getfulltextresearch.com.
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development of a pre-publication check, said Dr Christophe Trefois, R3 team leader. This internal verification is aimed at
monitoring the compliance with the latest standards and high quality of all manuscripts written at the LCSB, through a series of checks addressing issues such as plagiarism, data protection and source code quality. SciScore, through its rigour check, will be one of the main components in this pre-publication pipeline. Anita Bandrowski, founder and CEO of SciCrunch, said: ‘Part of recent research is not reproducible due to flaws in reference material, unreliable source identification, and similar issues,’. ‘Our solution helps flag these issues before scientific articles become part of the permanent record.’
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