Communication in science

The COVID-19 pandemic has been the greatest global public health crisis in a century. Scientific research and its effective communication have been at the centre of the worldwide response to the emergency. This report analyses how the scholarly communication system – involving the production, evaluation...

Report

Science and health misinformation in the digital age

21 Jul 2021

Eric Merkley,

Peter Loewen

Public Policy Forum

This report highlights three case studies of science communication and misinformation — climate change, vaccines and COVID-19. It concludes with recommendations for practitioners and government agencies to combat misinformation and its effects in science and health policy.

Book

Communicating science: a global perspective

6 Oct 2020

Toss Gascoigne,

Bernard Schiele,

Joan Leach,

Michelle Riedlinger,

Bruce Lewenstein,

Luisa Massarani,

Peter Broks

Australian National University

This publication is a comprehensive attempt to chart the history of science communication as it developed in the modern era. It tells the story from the perspective of researchers and practitioners in the field, collecting accounts of how modern science communication has developed internationally.

Journal article

Drivers of article processing charges in open access

1 Jul 2020

Oliver Budzinski,

Thomas Grebel,

Jens Wolling,

Xijie Zhang

It is no longer readers and libraries paying subscription fees, but scientific organizations and authors themselves who pay for the cost of having their article published to allow unrestricted access. Data shows a tremendous variance in article processing charges (APC) across journals, and this study...

Journal article

Consolidating institutional repositories in a digital, free, open access publication platform for all scholarly output

29 Jun 2020

Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer,

Eva Mendez,

Jeroen Sondervan,

Frans Oort

This paper explains the University Journals project, and how the involved universities want to facilitate a valuable alternative publication platform that complies with Plan S principles that enables publication and dissemination of all research outcomes.

Transcript

Science advice: A bastion against the post-truth/post-trust torrent?

26 Sep 2017

Peter Gluckman

Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor (New Zealand)

What is the role of science as an institution in a world where trust in institutions, elites and experts may be in decline? How can we ensure respect for the place of scientifically derived knowledge?

Report

Communication and climate change: what the Australian public thinks

11 Jul 2011

Peta Ashworth

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

While the majority of Australians believe climate change is a real phenomenon, some confusion and misconceptions exist when trying to decipher the information presented by the media and other communication specialists. In October 2010, CSIRO conducted an internet survey aimed at understanding the current attitudes...