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Are You Ready to ROR? An Inside Look at This New Organization Identifier Registry

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

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.

The People You Won't Hear from at One of the World's Largest Scientific Meetings

The People You Won't Hear from at One of the World's Largest Scientific Meetings

Researchers from racial and ethnic groups that are under-represented in US geoscience are the least likely to be offered opportunities to speak at the field's biggest meeting.

UK Election 2019: What the 'wisdom of Crowds' Forecasts

UK Election 2019: What the 'wisdom of Crowds' Forecasts

Crowd-based prediction markets have even been shown to outperform intelligence analysts.

Towards Responsible Research Career Assessment

Towards Responsible Research Career Assessment

Growing evidence suggests that the evaluation of researchers’ careers on the basis of narrow definitions of excellence is restricting diversity in academia, both in the development of its labour force and its approaches to address societal challenges. Recommendations are suggested for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

Keeping Up With Scientific Integrity in the US

Keeping Up With Scientific Integrity in the US

Quarterly updates on scientific integrity in the US nearly three years into the Trump administration.

Lib Dems Warn of Brexit Brain Drain As EU Academics Quit

Lib Dems Warn of Brexit Brain Drain As EU Academics Quit

Figures show 11,000 have left UK universities in three years since referendum.

Releasing a New CORE Discovery Browser Extension

Releasing a New CORE Discovery Browser Extension

CORE Discovery helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher's website. It is backed by our huge dataset of millions of full text open…

Monitoring Agreements with Open Access Elements: Why Article-Level Metadata Are Important

Monitoring Agreements with Open Access Elements: Why Article-Level Metadata Are Important

With more agreements including some form of Open Access, consortia and academic institutions need to monitor the number of Open Access publications, the costs and the value of these agreements.

Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter

Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter

This blog post is a joint announcement of an initiative by several publishers in collaboration with Fairsharing and DataCite to help authors select appropriate data repositories.

I'm Striking Because Insecure Academic Contracts Are Ruining My Mental Health

I'm Striking Because Insecure Academic Contracts Are Ruining My Mental Health

A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.

Europe's New Space Budget to Enable CO2 Mapping

Europe's New Space Budget to Enable CO2 Mapping

Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. The enhanced capability is expected to be a potent tool in helping all nations - not just European ones - better understand their carbon footprint.