Brexit is happening: what does it mean for science?
Negotiators have less than a year to agree on how the United Kingdom will participate in European Union research programmes.
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The Deceptively Simple Number Sparking Coronavirus Fears
Here's what the oft-cited R0 number tells us about the new outbreak-and what it doesn't.
What Should the Next President Do to Restore Science to Decisionmaking?
The new report, Presidential Recommendations for 2020: A Blueprint for Defending Science and Protecting the Public, outlines a suite of recommendations that the next president can take to protect the health and safety of the public through restoring science to government decisionmaking processes. The report focuses on strengthening three major principles underlying science-based decisionmaking: independence, transparency, and free speech.
Wellcome Open Research: a Summary of Year 3
Analysis of publishing activity on the Wellcome Open Research platform and preview of some of the activities planned for 2020.
Scientists Are Moving at Record Speed to Create New Coronavirus Vaccines - but They May Come Too Late
Scientists Are Moving at Record Speed to Create New Coronavirus Vaccines - but They May Come Too Late
Even in the best-case scenario, developing, testing, and mass-producing a new vaccine takes many months.
Epic's Call to Block a Proposed Data Rule is Wrong for Many Reasons
Epic's Call to Block a Proposed Data Rule is Wrong for Many Reasons
Epic, the large electronic health record company, wants to scuttle a rule that requires information to flow freely between EHRs. It should embrace it.
Boost for UK Science with Unlimited Visa Offer to World's Brightest and Best
Top scientists to be given fast-tracked entry into the UK.
Edward Snowden to the Hundreds of AMLD Participants at EPFL: "Don't Stay Safe. Stay Free! "
Edward Snowden to the Hundreds of AMLD Participants at EPFL: "Don't Stay Safe. Stay Free! "
The main points developed by Edward Snowden during his speech at the Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL. In the second part of his speech, the American answered questions. The main part of this interview are also reported.
Scientists Are Unraveling the Chinese Coronavirus With Unprecedented Speed and Openness
Scientists Are Unraveling the Chinese Coronavirus With Unprecedented Speed and Openness
Just 10 days after it was first reported, scientists released the genetic sequence of the coronavirus. The freely available data unleashed a massive collaborative research effort.
Conflict Between Open Access and Open Science: APCs Are a Key Part of the Problem, Preprints Are a Key Part of the Solution
Conflict Between Open Access and Open Science: APCs Are a Key Part of the Problem, Preprints Are a Key Part of the Solution
Will preprinting accelerate the death of predatory journals and facilitate better models for scholarly communication?
Making Flying Actually Sustainable
CO2-neutral synthetic fuels are technically feasible today and the best promise for decarbonizing aviation. The right policy instruments could turn promise into reality, writes ETHZ professor.
The Gender Politics of Doctoral Reform
Where are the white guys when we talk about changing the way Ph.D.s are advised and trained?
Trump's Dismantling of Environmental Regulations Unwinds 50 Years of Protections
President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to "ensure" that the United States has the "cleanest air" and the "cleanest water," but his administration's efforts to slash environmental regulations have been extensive.
Offline: Scientific publishing - trust and tribulations
Scientific publishers as we know them today remain a threatened species. They will have to do more to prove their added value to science and society. Unless they do so, they may not deserve to survive.
It's Not What Libraries Hold; It's Who Libraries Serve
The business of higher education, as it relates to libraries, is undergoing continued and drastic change. Managing collections is now only one aspect of library management, which is moving towards a user-centered future.
European Science Cloud Will Uncover 'Hidden Treasure'
The European Open Science Cloud, an enormous repository of research results that is due to go live later this year, will add new value to vast stores of unused data, Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president pledged on Wednesday.
ACM Signs New Open Access Agreements with Four Leading Universities
New ACM Open Publishing Model Promises to Accelerate ACM's Transition to Full Open Access New York, NY, January 23, 2020-ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, entered into transformative open access agreements with several of its largest institutional customers, including the University of California (UC), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Iowa State University (ISU). The agreements, which run for three-year terms beginning January 1, 2020, cover both access to and open access publication in ACM's journals, proceedings and magazines for these universities, and represent the first transformative open access agreements for ACM. "This joint agreement shows …
Open Up to Research Integrity
The authors of LERU's new paper on research integrity - Inge Lerouge and Ton Hol - discuss trust in science and how to earn it.
Why Snakes Probably Aren't Spreading the New China Virus
One genetic analysis suggests reptilian reservoir - but researchers doubt that the coronavirus could have originated in animals other than birds or mammals.
Open Scholarship Knowledge Base
The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base is a collaborative initiative to curate and share knowledge about the what, why, and how of open scholarship.
Berghahn will flip thirteen anthropology journals to open access in 2020
Berghahn Books will take the step of publishing thirteen core anthropology journals as open access starting with their 2020 volumes under the subscribe-to-open model (S2O).
'People Can't Learn About Treatments They Need': Why Open Access to Medical Research Matters
'People Can't Learn About Treatments They Need': Why Open Access to Medical Research Matters
Campaigners have argued for open access to scientific research since the dawn of the internet - so why is it taking so long?
Tell It Like It is: On the Pressure to Provide 'Clean' Narratives
Tell It Like It is: On the Pressure to Provide 'Clean' Narratives
Science is messy, and the results of research rarely conform fully to plan or expectation. ‘Clean’ narratives are an artefact of inappropriate pressures and the culture they have generated.
Access for Patients - and Other Ways to Get Elsevier Articles Without a Subscription
Access for Patients - and Other Ways to Get Elsevier Articles Without a Subscription
We're updating our list of free and low-cost article access programs, including patient/caregiver access.
Software Searches out Reproducibility Issues in Scientific Papers
Software Searches out Reproducibility Issues in Scientific Papers
Papers are getting more rigorous, according to a text-mining analysis of 1.6 million papers, but progress is slower than some researchers would like.
Measuring Originality in Science
Originality has self-evident importance for science, but objectively measuring originality poses a formidable challenge.
Citation Concept Analysis (CCA): A New Form of Citation Analysis
In recent years, the full text of papers are increasingly available electronically which opens up the possibility of quantitatively investigating citation contexts in more detail.
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