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#AcademicPublishing #Virology
Reviewed pre-print at @eLIFE now online which describes our screen for host mechanisms that limit the ability to activate HIV from latency and identifies a target that could be druggable: "Integrator complex subunit 12 knockout overcomes a transcriptional block to HIV latency reversal" https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103064.1 Revisions for the paper should not be too difficult. Also good timing for the first author, Carley Gray, whose defense is tomorrow afternoon.


Have you ever thought about questionable research practices (QRPs) in academia?

The Retraction Watch team have highlighted this new paper in PLoSOne that has a systematic analysis. The authors identify 25 QRPs and then survey a lot of academics.

The results are interesting, widespread use of QRPs, sort of a grey area of acedemic behaviour, with some explanatory factors.

I'm bookmarking this for future use.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0304342

#academia #academicchatter #research #researchethics #academicpublishing


MIT dropped its contract with Elsevier, the huge scientific journal company. Their library instead arranged alternate access to journals and tools for researchers to get them. They’re saving $2 million/year:

https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/

#academicpublishing #OpenAccess #science #scientificpublishing


The negotiations of #SwissUniversities "with Elsevier have not yet resulted in a mutually acceptable agreement. As the current agreement ends on 31 Dec 2023, preparations were put in place for a scenario without agreement as of 2024." https://www.swissuniversities.ch/en/themen/digitalisierung/open-access/publisher-negotiations/elsevier
#Elsevier #publishing #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #NoDeal

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