Documents Without Borders: Show Me the (International) Data!

Show me the data

The integrity of data, and transparency about their acquisition, are vital to science. The impact factor data that are gathered and sold by Thomson Scientifi c (formerly the Institute of Scientifi c Information, or ISI) have a strong infl uence on the scientifi c community, affecting decisions on where to publish, whom to promote or hire (1), the success of grant applications (2), and even sala...

OTHER INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS Climate Protection without Borders

* Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. This text is the author’s translation of an extract from his article “Internationale Energiepolitik” (“International Energy Policy”), published in the anthology Die Zukunft der Energie (The Future of Energy). If the global climate is to be stabilised to ensure that the average temperature on Earth does not in...

Show Me The Data: The Pilot UK Research Data Registry

The UK Research Data (Metadata) Registry (UKRDR) pilot project is implementing a prototype registry for the UK’s research data assets, enabling the holdings of subjectbased data centres and institutional data repositories alike to be searched from a single location. The purpose of the prototype is to prove the concept of the registry, and uncover challenges that will need to be addressed if and...

Misanthropy without borders: the international children's rights regime.

The issue of children's rights has become key to human rights-based international security strategies. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is being operationalised in complex political emergencies. Children's rights now inform humanitarian principles. Universal concern for children is viewed as transcending political and social divides and able to mobilise societies to confront ...

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