{"id":2290,"date":"2022-07-06T17:46:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T17:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2022-07-06T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T17:46:38","slug":"research-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2022\/07\/06\/research-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Research News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ground-breaking Open Research Platform, Octopus, to Launch<\/strong>\u00a0(Jisc, June 24)<br>&#8220;Octopus aims to enable fast, free and fair publishing of research that is open to all and focuses on the intrinsic quality of research. It sets out to avoid researchers being tempted to \u2018sell good stories\u2019 in their work, and instead rewards them for rigour and specialism.&#8221;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/carl-abrc.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9000187600&amp;id=dd1ff04af0&amp;e=5a1c256af7\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hijacked-journal Tracker Helps Researchers to Spot Scam Websites\u00a0<\/strong>(H.\u00a0Else,\u00a0<em>Nature News<\/em>, June 22)<br>&#8220;Hijacked journals \u2014 scam websites that impersonate legitimate titles \u2014 have duped unsuspecting researchers out of author fees for years. Now, a tool will help researchers to check the validity of titles they are considering before they submit their work. The online spreadsheet, called the Retraction Watch hijacked journal checker, lists more than 150 titles and associated web addresses of allegedly hijacked journals. It has been put together by Anna Abalkina, an economics researcher at the Free University of Berlin, and scientific-misconduct blog Retraction Watch.&#8221;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/carl-abrc.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9000187600&amp;id=8de66cbd0d&amp;e=5a1c256af7\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ground-breaking Open Research Platform, Octopus, to Launch\u00a0(Jisc, June 24)&#8220;Octopus aims to enable fast, free and fair publishing of research that is open to all and focuses on the intrinsic quality of research. It sets out to avoid researchers being tempted to \u2018sell good stories\u2019 in their work, and instead rewards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}