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European Parliament Petition on Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor - Green Tea and Velociraptors

European Parliament Petition on Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor - Green Tea and Velociraptors

Elsevier's role in the EU's Open Science Monitor is examined more closely.

New Research on Graduate Student Mental Well-being Says Departments Have Important Roles to Play in Fostering Healthy Environments

New Research on Graduate Student Mental Well-being Says Departments Have Important Roles to Play in Fostering Healthy Environments

New studies find variation by departments, with many findings of significant rates of depression and anxiety.

Bart De Strooper: 'Bright Young Scientists Won't Come to Join Us in UK'

Bart De Strooper: 'Bright Young Scientists Won't Come to Join Us in UK'

The Belgian biologist fears for the future of the pioneering UK Dementia Research Institute after Brexit

Commission Plans to Shake Up Its Big Research Department

Commission Plans to Shake Up Its Big Research Department

EU research chief Jean-Eric Paquet lays plans to refocus staff on policy goals, efficiency and cooperation with other parts of the Commission.

Surprise! Shutdown Also Disrupting U.S. Science Agencies That Aren't Closed

Surprise! Shutdown Also Disrupting U.S. Science Agencies That Aren't Closed

And at NASA, nearly 200 postdocs furloughed

Shutdown Will Cast a Long Shadow over Research

Shutdown Will Cast a Long Shadow over Research

The sudden halt to US government functions leaves me worried about the effects on science for years to come, says Anne Jefferson.

'Make Love, Not CO2': Swiss Students March for Climate Action

'Make Love, Not CO2': Swiss Students March for Climate Action

Thousands of school children and university students across Switzerland skipped class on Friday to march in the streets and demand climate action, telling politicians "There is no planet B".

Women Who Win Prizes Get Less Money and Prestige

Women Who Win Prizes Get Less Money and Prestige

A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do, report Brian Uzzi and colleagues.

Change Ahead: How Do Smaller Publishers Perceive Open Access?

Change Ahead: How Do Smaller Publishers Perceive Open Access?

Reporting results from a comprehensive survey of publishers in the German-speaking world, Christian Kaier and Karin Lackner explore the attitudes of smaller publishers towards open access, finding …

Who Are You Writing For? The Role of Community Membership on Authors' Decisions to Publish in Open Access Mega-Journals

Who Are You Writing For? The Role of Community Membership on Authors' Decisions to Publish in Open Access Mega-Journals

Open Access mega-journals have in some academic disciplines become a key channel for communicating research. In others, however, they remain unknown. This article explores how authors’ perceptions of mega-journals differ across disciplines and are shaped by motivations associated with the multiple communities they function within.

The Effect of Publishing Peer Review Reports on Referee Behavior in Five Scholarly Journals

The Effect of Publishing Peer Review Reports on Referee Behavior in Five Scholarly Journals

To increase transparency in science, some scholarly journals have begun publishing peer review reports. Here, the authors show how this policy shift affects reviewer behavior by analyzing data from five journals piloting open peer review.

How UK Scientists Are Preparing for a Chaotic No-Deal Brexit

How UK Scientists Are Preparing for a Chaotic No-Deal Brexit

Lab gloves, fly food and charter planes - UK research institutes are preparing for a possible snap departure from the European Union in just 10 weeks.

Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Provide Recommendations for Plan S Implementation

Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Provide Recommendations for Plan S Implementation

Harvard Library and the MIT Libraries are in broad support of Plan S and its goals while also recomending certain adjustments to the implementation details.

Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand

Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand

 When the year began, the world's largest academic publisher, Elsevier, had increased their annual profits, with an operating profit approaching US$1.2 billion in science, technology, and medicine - a profit margin of over 36%. By year's end, a hefty chunk of the world's research community was walking away from big subscription deals with Elsevier and others. 

Women Who Win Prizes Get Less Money and Prestige

Women Who Win Prizes Get Less Money and Prestige

A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do.

Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant

Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant

Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll access journals open access, taking for granted that existing open access journals are Plan S compliant. We suspected this was not so, and set out to explore this using DOAJ's journal metadata. We conclude that an overwhelmingly large majority of open access journals are not Plan S compliant, and that it is small HSS publishers not charging APCs that are least compliant and will face major challenges with becoming compliant. Plan S need to give special considerations to smaller publishers and/or non-APC-based journals.

Pay to Publish Open Access: On the DEAL-Wiley Agreement

Pay to Publish Open Access: On the DEAL-Wiley Agreement

Details of the contract between the German consortium DEAL and Wiley reveal that the transformative nature of this new big deal may come at a high cost. 

Why We Need a Public Infrastructure for Data on Open Access

Why We Need a Public Infrastructure for Data on Open Access

The necessity of developing a public infrastructure for open access, its benefits and the obstacles to reaching this goal.

Well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing Information Flow in Science

Well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing Information Flow in Science

Information-aesthetic explorations of emerging patterns in scientific citation networks. A cooperation between the Eigenfactor® Project (data analysis) and Moritz Stefaner (visualization).

Patricia Falcone Talks About Women in Science on 'She Roars' Podcast

Patricia Falcone Talks About Women in Science on 'She Roars' Podcast

Leading scientist Patricia Falcone speaks with podcast host Margaret Koval about the importance of college mathematics, early research experience and clear communications.

Elsevier's High Profit Model Makes them Anti-Open

Elsevier's High Profit Model Makes them Anti-Open

Elsevier argues that they make their citation data available through their subscription database, Scopus, and that “[…] Elsevier cannot make such a large corpus of data, which it has added significant value to, available for free."

International Collaboration Publishes Concept Design for a Post-LHC Future Circular Collider at CERN

International Collaboration Publishes Concept Design for a Post-LHC Future Circular Collider at CERN

Today, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration submitted its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for publication.

Glaciers Are Retreating. Millions Rely on Their Water.

Glaciers Are Retreating. Millions Rely on Their Water.

Glaciers are crucial sources of water for people and crops in Central Asia. But global warming is causing glaciers there and around the world to shrink every year.