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Dear Colleagues, Across the sciences, generic monitors of trust in results from science are being introduced. As educators and researchers, our article in J Appl Cryst considers these terms within the context of biological and chemical crystal structure analyses. The weblink is:- https://journals.iu...

Dear Colleagues, The USA National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, US National Committee on Crystallography and USA National Institute of Standards and Technology "Crystallography and Structural Databases " Course lectures’ recordings are now becoming available including my own lectur...

Dear Colleagues, In the past months I have sought advice from CODATA colleagues to answer the question "Just who does own research data?" This arose, in different ways, from two workshops held by CommDat. One workshop was focussed for chemical crystallographers and the other was focussed for macromo...

Dear Colleagues, I imagine you would be interested in the book “Collecting Experiments. Making Big Data Biology” which I have reviewed here:- https://journals.iucr.org/j/issues/2022/01/00/xo0187/index.html My book review is open access. Best wishes, John Emeritus Professor John R Helliwell DSc Chair...

Dear Colleagues, The UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee is conducting an inquiry into Reproducibility and Research Integrity. Details are here:- https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1433/reproducibility-and-research-integrity/ The first session has been held and a recording is available...

Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of my coauthors: Andy Gotz(ESRF), Jon Taylor and Tobias Richter (both ESS), here is our article available today:-
https://zenodo.org/record/5155882#.YQ0qVy14WhA
This article is under the auspices of the PaNOSC (Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud).
Best wishes,
John

Dear Colleagues, At the Research Data Alliance "RDA 17 PLenary" Event I was invited to present a 5 minutes summary on Provenance in Crystallography to a Birds of a Feather Discussion on provenance in different science domains. There were equivalent presentations from other research area domain scien...

Dear Colleagues,
Here is my Report on the CODATA with GoFAIR International Conference 2020:-
https://www.iucr.org/resources/data/mee ... odata-2020
Best wishes,
John
IUCr Representative to CODATA

Dear Colleagues,
The Swiss Universities Bulletin August 2020 Issue is on Research Data Management :-
http://vsh-aeu.ch/download/275/VSH_Bull ... 20_WEB.pdf
I have contributed an article on Open science and the reproducibility of the scientific record.
Best wishes,
John

Dear Colleagues, Super initiative from Photon and Neutron Facility Partners in the EU described in this 3 minutes youtube video from the ILLGrenoble ensuring open science and reproducibility is fully realised with the assignment of dois per experiment. See:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekn0qicVF...