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The Rise of Junk Science
Fake publications are corrupting the world of research- and influencing real news.
Negotiating with Scholarly Journal Publishers: A Toolkit
A North American framework for creating transformative change in the scholarly publishing industry based on initial insights from the University of California's 2018-19 negotiations with Elsevier.
Credit Data Generators for Data Reuse
To promote effective sharing, we must create an enduring link between the people who generate data and its future uses, urge Heather H. Pierce and colleagues.
Research England Awards £2.2m to Project to Improve and Increase Open Access Publishing
Research England Awards £2.2m to Project to Improve and Increase Open Access Publishing
A new Research England funded project is set to help universities, researchers, libraries and publishers to make more, and better, use of open access book publishing.
Research Integrity is Much More Than Misconduct
All researchers should strive to improve the quality, relevance and reliability of their work.
We Don't Trust Course Evaluations, but Are Peer Observations of Teaching Much Better?
We Don't Trust Course Evaluations, but Are Peer Observations of Teaching Much Better?
Why colleges and universities that claim to take teaching seriously need a comprehensive and fair system of evaluating it.
Racial and Gender Biases Plague Postdoc Hiring
Changing the name on a CV affects how physics and biology faculty members view theoretical applicants, according to a new study.
It's Time to Retire Statistical Significance
While statistical significance sends the so-called significant results into the literature, the results on the other side of the threshold often disappear into the “famous file drawer”.
Theme of 2019 International Open Access Week To Be "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge"
Theme of 2019 International Open Access Week To Be "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge"
As the transition to a system for sharing knowledge that is open by default accelerates, the question “open for whom?” is essential—both to consider and to act upon.
Innovation in Citizen Science Using Machine Learning
An interdisciplinary team has come up with a mobile app for identifying plants based on users taking a photo of the plant on their mobile. For Citizen Science the enthusiastic engagement of the public with Flora Incognita shows a clear path forward for more widespread uses of machine learning in public participation with science and scholarship, and in knowledge creation.
'A Loss for Both Sides' if Swiss Excluded from EU R&D
The president of Switzerland's top-ranked university warned that both Switzerland and the European Union would lose out if his country were excluded from the next big EU research programme.
Launching Transpose, a Database of Journal Policies on Preprinting & Peer Review
Launching Transpose, a Database of Journal Policies on Preprinting & Peer Review
ASAPbio launched Transpose, a database of journal peer review, co-reviewing, and preprint policies relating to media coverage, licensing, versions, and citation.
CERN Prepares Open Source Push Following Microsoft Price Hike
CERN has launched an ambitious drive towards open source software after Microsoft revoked its academic discount and introduced a new contract which was set to lead to a tenfold increase in licensing costs.
COAlition S Appoints Jisc Expert to Accelerate Open Access
Neil Jacobs, Head of Open Science and research lifecycle at UK not-for-profit, Jisc, has been appointed as interim programme manager for cOAlition S.
IEEE Announces 14 New Open Access Journals
IEEE to provide more high-quality options for authors and researchers.
The War to Free Science
How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world's academic research from paywalls.
Peer Review is Not Just Quality Control, It is Part of the Social Infrastructure of Research
Peer Review is Not Just Quality Control, It is Part of the Social Infrastructure of Research
The purpose of peer review is often portrayed as being a simple ‘objective’ test of the soundness or quality of a research paper. However, it also performs other functions primarily through linking and developing relationships between networks of researchers.
ELife Announces New Funding to Support Diversity in Science
The Ben Barres Spotlight Awards will give scientists in underrepresented communities an opportunity to gain visibility for their work and increase collaboration.
Swiss Women Strike to Demand Equal Pay
Hundreds of thousands protest against ‘culture of sexism in everday life’.
When English is Not Your Mother Tongue
Seven researchers discuss the challenges posed by science's embrace of one global language.
Plan S: the Final Cut
The Lancet welcomes the latest Plan S guidance, but differs in one aspect.
'Broken Access' Publishing Corrodes Quality
Funders should award competitive grants directly to journals to underwrite the costs of open access, urges Adriano Aguzzi.
Indicators of Open Access for Universities
This paper presents a first attempt to analyse Open Access integration at the institutional level. For this, we combine information from Unpaywall and the Leiden Ranking to offer basic OA indicators for universities. OA indicators are also disaggregated by green, gold and hybrid Open Access. We then explore differences between and within countries and offer a general ranking of universities based on the proportion of their output which is openly accessible.
Researchers Reject APC-based OA Publishing As Promoted by Plan S
Lynn Kamerlin, Bas de Bruin and their colleagues have been the most vocal critics of Plan S from the very beginning, braving continuous opposition from certain OA leaders. Now that final Plan S guidelines were released, the chemists publish this Open Letter expressing their worry about a possible dystopian OA future.
Hyped-up Science Erodes Trust. Here's How Researchers Can Fight Back.
Science is often poorly communicated. Researchers can fight back.
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