Swiss Women Strike to Demand Equal Pay
Hundreds of thousands protest against ‘culture of sexism in everday life’.
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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.
Taiwan Considers Double-blind Peer Review for Grants
If the system is adopted, reviewers and applicants will be anonymous, in an attempt to make selection fairer.
The Science for Public Good Fund
If you are an early career scientist looking for ways to get involved with advocacy, or a faculty member who wants to engage your students in the role of science in democracy, the Science for Public Good Fund is for you. We want to support the next generation of science advocacy leaders today.
Building Shareyourpaper.org to Make Self-archiving the Simplest Way to Increase a Paper's Impact.
Building Shareyourpaper.org to Make Self-archiving the Simplest Way to Increase a Paper's Impact.
Introducing shareyourpaper.org, the simplest way for authors to legally self-archive and for your library to fill your repository.
New Tool and Dataset Make Permissions Checking Easier, Faster, and Clearer for Libraries.
New Tool and Dataset Make Permissions Checking Easier, Faster, and Clearer for Libraries.
Together with librarians, we’re building a new way to perform permissions checking that is backed by a modern approach and informed by a decade of experience and open, community-editable, machine-readable data.
The Politics of Open Access in Action
Open access is a movement constituted by conflict and disagreement rather than consensus and harmony. Given just how much disagreement there is about strategies, definitions, goals, etc., it is incredible that open access has successfully transformed the publishing landscape.
Metadata2020 Survey
The purpose of this study is to understand the familiarity and usage of metadata by those who use metadata in the process of preparing, publishing, cataloging, or sharing research papers, media and other associated objects in scholarly communications.
Three Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating the Impact of "spin" in Health News Stories Reporting Studies of Pharmacologic Treatments on Patients'/Caregivers' Interpretation of Treatment Benefit
Three Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating the Impact of "spin" in Health News Stories Reporting Studies of Pharmacologic Treatments on Patients'/Caregivers' Interpretation of Treatment Benefit
Spin in health news stories reporting studies of pharmacologic treatments affects patients’/caregivers’ interpretation.
How Gold Open Access May Make Things Worse
The article processing charge (APC)-based version of ‘gold’ OA could be a looming threat that may deteriorate the situation even beyond the abysmal state scholarly publishing is already in right now.
Gender 'Holds Women Academics Back'
Men reach more senior levels than women, even after parenthood is accounted for, research suggests.
Globalisation, Localisation and Glocalisation of University-Business Research Cooperation: General Patterns and Trends in the UK University System
Globalisation, Localisation and Glocalisation of University-Business Research Cooperation: General Patterns and Trends in the UK University System
Exploratory study presenting a new systematic way of looking at ‘university-business interactions’ in the UK university system.
Book Release: Science Policy Under Thatcher
Book Release: Science Policy Under Thatcher
Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's leadership.
Pfizer Had Clues Its Blockbuster Drug Could Prevent Alzheimer’s. Why Didn’t It Tell the World?
Pfizer Had Clues Its Blockbuster Drug Could Prevent Alzheimer’s. Why Didn’t It Tell the World?
A team of researchers inside Pfizer made a startling find in 2015: The company’s blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis therapy Enbrel, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 64 percent.
PRESS RELEASE: Researchers Respond to Revised Guidance for Plan S
The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc), the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), and the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) jointly welcome the revised implementation guidance for Plan S.
A Messier Parliament, and an Uncertain Future for Horizon Europe
In the aftermath of the European elections, the calculators are starting to come out in labs and universities around Europe that depend on the EU for research funding: Will it mean more or less money for science and technology? The answer so far: fuzzy maths.
White House Science Chief Leaves Door Ajar to Open Access Mandate
Asked by THE why taxpayers should not be able to immediately see the results of research they financed, Kelvin Droegemeier answered: 'They maybe should'
Brexit 'may Bar UK Scientists from €100bn EU Research Fund'
Nobel prize winner warns UK science will suffer unless it can gain access to Horizon Europe
Chief Scientist Calls for Formal Action to Bake in Better Research Practices
"Our focus has to shift from quantity to quality…we must abandon the assumption that a passive apprenticeship system works" Dr Finkel calls for formal action in Nature journal to improve better research practices. Nature published an article by Dr Finkel on 19 February 2019 on how to move research from quantity to
Ambitious Open-Access Plan S Delayed to Let Research Community Adapt
Funders behind the policy revise rules after major consultation.
Views from a Continent in Flux
Nature asked nine leading Europeans to pick their top priority for science at this pivotal point. Love, money, and trust got the most votes.
2019 Big Deals Survey Report
The Second EUA Big Deals Survey Report is an updated mapping of major scholarly publishing contracts in Europe. Conducted in 2017-2018, the report gathers data from 31 consortia covering an unprecedented 167 contracts with five major publishers: Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and American Chemical Society.
The Significant Difference in Impact
This paper analyses usage statistics, citation data and altmetrics from a university press publishing open access monographs. The data suggests, despite the small sample, that authors can to a greater extent influence how their book is discovered by the readership.
GM Fungus 'kills 99% of Malaria Mosquitoes'
A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.
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