Global Protests Reveal Bitcoin's Limitations - CoinDesk
Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild.
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Implementing the New EU Provision That Protects the Public Domain
An explanation of the mandatory provision in the new Copyright Directive that ensures that faithful reproductions of public domain works of visual art cannot be subject to exclusive rights.
Congress Creates Two New Bodies to Tackle Foreign Influence on U.S. Research
Congress is set to approve a major defense bill that would establish two new high-level bodies aimed at preventing foreign governments from unfairly exploiting the U.S.
Raising Research Quality Will Require Collective Action
Institutions must act together to reform research culture.
In Memoriam: Margarita Salas (1938-2019)
In memory of Margarita Salas, the biochemist whose discoveries led to faster, more-accurate DNA testing.
Review Commons is Now LIVE
ASAPbio and EMBO Press have launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts in the life sciences before they are submitted to a journal.
How Twitter is Changing Medical Research
From online journal clubs to 'tweetorials' to conference updates, social media is changing the dissemination and discussion of biomedicine.
To Fix Research Assessment, Swap Slogans for Definitions
Evaluation reforms will go round in circles without conceptual clarity, warns Anna Hatch.
Games Academics Play and Their Consequences: How Authorship, H-Index and Journal Impact Factors Are Shaping the Future of Academia
Games Academics Play and Their Consequences: How Authorship, H-Index and Journal Impact Factors Are Shaping the Future of Academia
Research is a highly competitive profession where evaluation plays a central role. Yet such evaluations are often done in inappropriate ways that are damaging to individual careers, and to the profession.
Releasing a Preprint is Associated with More Attention and Citations for the Peer-reviewed Article
Releasing a Preprint is Associated with More Attention and Citations for the Peer-reviewed Article
This observational study can help researchers and publishers make informed decisions about how to incorporate preprints into their work.
Physicist Embroiled in Sexism Row with Wikipedia After Female Scientists She Wrote Profiles for 'not Notable Enough'
Physicist Embroiled in Sexism Row with Wikipedia After Female Scientists She Wrote Profiles for 'not Notable Enough'
A physicist has become embroiled in a sexism row with Wikipedia after profiles she created for female scientists were removed because they were "not notable enough".
Why Ethics and Science Move at Different Speeds, and the Unfortunate Trend to Legalize Research Ethics
Why Ethics and Science Move at Different Speeds, and the Unfortunate Trend to Legalize Research Ethics
When I sat down to think about what to say during this panel entitled "Are there ethical limits to what science can achieve or should pursue", I couldn't help but feel intellectually stuck in three paradoxes, paradoxes that I think animate our condition today, and that I take as a point of departure for my talk. First. Alongside the unprecedented potential of science and technology to solve complex global challenges, there is a perpetual threat of a catastrophe: from the atomic bomb to chemical,
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal
UK health service will not gain commercial benefit from future Amazon products using its data
China's CRISPR Babies: Read Exclusive Excerpts from the Unseen Original Research
China's CRISPR Babies: Read Exclusive Excerpts from the Unseen Original Research
He Jiankui's manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.
Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: Which is Best for Me?
Being able to find, assess and place new research within a field of knowledge, is integral to any research project.
Celebrating 6 Months of Published Peer Review at PLOS
More than 800 PLOS articles have already been published with accompanying peer review history, transforming options for transparency in the assessment process.
'The Netflixisation of Academia': is This the End for University Lectures?
Universities are increasingly recording lectures, but academics are wary of being spied on or made obsolete.
Chinese Universities with Military Ties Classed As "Risky" Collaborators
Forty-three Chinese universities should be considered "very high" or "high" risk collaborators because of their involvement in research for military and defence purposes, according to an Australian think tank.
More Indigenous and Latin American Students Are Joining US Graduate Programmes - But Overall Diversity Remains Low
More Indigenous and Latin American Students Are Joining US Graduate Programmes - But Overall Diversity Remains Low
Proportions of female students and those from under-represented ethnic groups are rising, yet parity is a way off.
Dutch End 'one-sided' Research Focus and Hope World Follows
Proposals include new job classifications, a rolling back of metrics, and shorter publication lists in a bid to end excessive 'emphasis on research performance'.
What Are the Larger Implications of Ex Libris Buying Innovative?
The deal, which is expected to close in early 2020, further cements Ex Libris as the leader in the library systems marketplace and can be expected to put added pressure on OCLC.
Proposed Schema Changes - Have Your Say - Crossref
The first version of our metadata input schema (a DTD, to be specific) was created in 1999 to capture basic bibliographic information and facilitate matching DOIs to citations. Over the past 20 years the bibliographic metadata we collect has deepened, and we've expanded our schema to include funding information, license, updates, relations, and other metadata. Our schema isn't as venerable as a MARC record or as comprehensive as JATS, but it's served us well.
DOAB and OAPEN Jointly Selected for Second Funding Cycle SCOSS
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has selected OAPEN and DOAB for its second funding cycle.
Open Innovation in OpenAIRE
We would like to inform you that the Open Call is launched again in a new form and slightly modified topics.
Why Science Failed to Stop Climate Change
It's a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time. Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late 1950s and political leaders have been discussing it for nearly as long. In 1961, Alvin Weinberg, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called carbon dioxide one of the "big problems"
Even 50-year-old Climate Models Correctly Predicted Global Warming
Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate
Cheers to Horizons, the Independent Swiss Science Magazine!
Horizons should stimulate debate about research and science policy, writes Matthias Egger, the President of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Are You Ready to ROR? An Inside Look at This New Organization Identifier Registry
What is the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and why do we need it? Learn more from the team behind it (CDL, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science) in this interview with Alice Meadows.
The New Europe PMC is Here
It's time to embrace change. Today Europe PubMed Central (PMC) proudly unveils a new website, packed with useful features, including a better search and reading experience, as well as better access to data.
Webinar: PhD Students Take on Openness and Academic Culture
Webinar: PhD Students Take on Openness and Academic Culture
OASPA webinar of 2019: invitation to speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access.
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