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The European Union’s research commissioner Carlos Moedas has proposed setting up a European Innovation Council (EIC) to fund applied research and innovation. Inspired by the well-loved European Research Council (ERC), this idea is one of several measures announced here yesterday to boost innovation across the union.
The connections between scholarly resources generated by persistent identifiers (PIDs) and associated metadata form a graph: the PID Graph. Today we are announcing another important milestone: we added the required functionality to the DataCite GraphQL API that allows us to keep track of the growth of the PID Graph in terms of nodes (resources) and edges (connections).
Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.
The hospital technology, typically used to identify human ailments, captured perhaps the world's smallest magnetic resonance image.
Institutions cannot boast of a respectful environment for researchers and trainees if they flout those values to cut legal liability, says Steven Piantadosi.
Former students recount their experiences dropping out.
A path forward for open access in the humanities and social sciences.
Some star psychologists don't disclose in research papers the large sums they earn for talking about their work. Is that a concern?
Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide.
Global effort to combat research misconduct gathers pace.
Agreement will allow for continued explorations between Elsevier, VSNU, NFU and NWO on how to work together toward future Dutch open science infrastructure services.
Analysis of data on drug-gene interactions suggests that decentralized collaboration will increase the robustness of scientific findings in biomedical research.
Researchers describe how a government crackdown on foreign influence is affecting them following a statement of support from their university.
Researchers identified nearly 400 common medical practices and theories that were contradicted by rigorous studies. Here are some of the most notable findings.
Most plant life survived the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl - and they have a lack of legs to thank for it.
The Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) started a year ago to mitigate anticipated software license fee increases.
A Dutch conference discussed the current rewards and incentives system and thought about the evaluation criteria of the future.
This factsheet of the Royal Society explains why leaving the EU with "no-deal" is a bad deal for science.
Explaining the current trends, issues and challenges of open access with special focus on Plan S, Plan U, article processing charges (APC), access issues and predatory publishing practices.
This graphic is an adaptation of Kramer and Bosman's Rainbow of open science practices and Stanley and Vandegrift's Periodic Table of Digital Research Resources. It is meant to inspire and invoke ongoing discussions about what a community- or academy-owned research infrastructure might begin to look like.
OpenCitations is a scholarly infrastructure organization dedicated to open scholarship and the publication of open bibliographic and citation data as Linked Open Data using Semantic Web technologies, to the development of software tools and services that enable convenient access to these open data, and to community advocacy for open citations. This paper describes OpenCitations and its datasets, tools, services and activities.
Digital Science launched a report on the state of open access monographs. The report addresses the question of how we integrate and value monographs in the increasingly open digital scholarly network.
Reviewers can now enter their ORCID iD in the Editorial Manager submission system for all PLOS journals and opt-in to automatically get credit when they complete a review, the same way they would for their published articles.
Releasing lab-built open source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has signed the international declaration aimed at strengthening and promoting best practice in the way research is assessed.
Coalition S acknowledges that there is a wide range of work to be done to implement Plan S and identified 9 priorities for the next few months.
After near-death experience, top scientists seek a long-term home in the U.S. government.
