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Introducing shareyourpaper.org, the simplest way for authors to legally self-archive and for your library to fill your repository.
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.
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.
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.
Spin in health news stories reporting studies of pharmacologic treatments affects patients’/caregivers’ interpretation.
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.
Men reach more senior levels than women, even after parenthood is accounted for, research suggests.
Exploratory study presenting a new systematic way of looking at ‘university-business interactions’ in the UK university system.
Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's leadership.
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.
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.
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.
Asked by THE why taxpayers should not be able to immediately see the results of research they financed, Kelvin Droegemeier answered: 'They maybe should'
Nobel prize winner warns UK science will suffer unless it can gain access to Horizon Europe
"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
Funders behind the policy revise rules after major consultation.
Nature asked nine leading Europeans to pick their top priority for science at this pivotal point. Love, money, and trust got the most votes.
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.
A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.
Female animals were once deemed too hormonal and messy for science. Some scientists warn it's not enough to just use more female lab rats.
Following a large consultation, have updated our open access (OA) policy so it now aligns with Plan S. The changes will apply from 1 January 2021.
The standardized test normally required for graduate school entrance in the US is being dropped by an increasing number of science PhD programs, amid concerns about diversity and the test's predictive value.
Plan S has injected a much-needed sense of urgency to the debate about transformation to full and immediate open access, but what are we missing in our focus on the minutiae of compliance?
Resolving the question of how to provide an infrastructure for open access books and monographs has remained a persistent problem for researchers, librarians and funders. The Open Research Library aims at bringing together all available open book content onto one platform, but has been met with mixed responses.
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.
Academics are thronging to university counselling rooms to seek help for mental health problems and stress, a report suggests.
Article concludes that the Citation Ratio is a useful and promising tool for comparing scientific impact of publications across disciplines and potentially for interdisciplinary works.
