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From solving attribution issues to understanding terms of service, here are some welcomed tips from Europeana, the Getty Museum, and Newfields.
How can online workshops be productive, engaging, caring and fun? How can researchers creatively adapt to a 'virtual normal' and develop caring and co-operative ways of working.
Vietnam chose to prevent rather than fight Covid-19, a strategy which means it has had no virus deaths.
As scientists, we try to make sure our research is rigorous so that we can avoid costly errors. We should take the same approach to tackle issues in research culture, says Professor Christopher Jackson.
Study found that preliminary criterion scores fully account for racial disparities - yet do not explain all of the variability - in preliminary overall impact scores.
Just 15% of professors at Eindhoven University of Technology were women until it introduced a radical new scheme.
COVID-19 is a major acute crisis with unpredictable consequences. Many scientists have struggled to make forecasts about its impact. However, despite involving many excellent modelers, best intentions, and highly sophisticated tools, forecasting efforts have largely failed.
Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken.
This Article examines the effect of abolishing peer review on the changed incentive structure and the likely effects on the behaviour of individual scientists, and concludes that, abolishing peer review has overall slightly positive results.
Over 150 Georgia State University faculty members signed an open letter to the school's president, Mark Becker, regarding a greater push for diversity and inclusion within its faculty.
Institute ends negotiations for a new journals contract in the absence of a proposal aligning with the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.
Nations are increasingly making conscious efforts to propel a subset of their universities into the global elite. But are such aspirations ever met? And, if they are, is that a blessing or a curse for those institutions denied entry to the club?
Personal integrity and local culture are key to research integrity, and bullying and harassment is the single biggest negative influence, according to a new study by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet peer reviewers did not see raw data behind findings before publication.
COVID-19 has given the public a newfound sense of the vitality of science. At the same time, policy makers are more than ever leaning on scientific advice to guide the way forward.
Don't blame last week's journal retractions on the scary pace of the pandemic. "Once-in-a-lifetime" scandals like this seem to happen all the time.
Academics and some scientific organizations will stop research activities on 10 June to reflect and take action on systemic inequalities in science.
Nature commits to working to end anti-Black practices in research.
IBM is also advocating for police reform.
The research world has moved faster than many would have suspected possible in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In five months, a volume of work has been generated that even the most intensive of emergent fields have taken years to create.In our new report, How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture, we investigate the research landscape trends and cultural changes in response to COVID-19. The report includes analysis of publication trends, geographic focal points of research, and collaboration patterns.
cOAlition S announces that the tender was awarded to a consortium coordinated by OPERAS.
Nearly three-quarters of UK universities slipped down while Asian institutions rose.
