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How Persistent Identifiers Can Save Scientists Time

How Persistent Identifiers Can Save Scientists Time

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) provide unique keys for people, places, and things, which supports the research process by facilitating search, discovery, recognition, and collaboration. This article reviews the main PIDs used in research (DOIs, ORCIDs, ...), as well as demonstrating how they are being used, and how, in combination, they can increase trust in research and the research infrastructure.

Why Schools Should Not Teach General Critical-Thinking Skills

Why Schools Should Not Teach General Critical-Thinking Skills

Students need to be given real and significant things from the world to think with and about if teachers want to influence how they do that thinking.

 

Knighthood in Hand, Astrophysicist Prepares to Lead U.S. Fusion Lab

Knighthood in Hand, Astrophysicist Prepares to Lead U.S. Fusion Lab

Steven Cowley takes over Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on 1 July.

4 Big Takeaways from a Huge New Report on Sexual Harassment in Science

4 Big Takeaways from a Huge New Report on Sexual Harassment in Science

Science needs to reckon with the #MeToo moment, and it needs to do so immediately, says a new report from the prestigious National Academies of Sciences.

Wide Racial Gaps Persist in College Degree Attainment

Wide Racial Gaps Persist in College Degree Attainment

Compared to White adults in the United States, Black adults are two-thirds as likely to hold a college degree and Latino adults are only half as likely – with both groups attaining degrees at a lower rate in 2016 than White adults did back in 1990, according to a new report by The Education Trust.

OpenUP Hub - OpenUP Blog Competition for Early Career Researchers and Students

OpenUP Hub - OpenUP Blog Competition for Early Career Researchers and Students

Early career researcher or student? Tell us your ideas for the future of review, dissemination or assessment in research and win a scholarship to attend the OpenUP Final Conference in Brussels, September 5th and 6th 2018, and present your ideas!

Q&A about the Cancellation of the Agreement with Elsevier Commencing 1 July

Q&A about the Cancellation of the Agreement with Elsevier Commencing 1 July

Why was the agreement with Elsevier not renewed?

Four Principles to Make Evidence Synthesis More Useful for Policy

Four Principles to Make Evidence Synthesis More Useful for Policy

Reward the creation of analyses for policymakers that are inclusive, rigorous, transparent and accessible.

The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade

The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade

Taubes founded NuSI to support objective science; now, it's his own objectivity he has to defend.

University of Victoria Digital Humanities Lab Expert on the Privatization of Knowledge

University of Victoria Digital Humanities Lab Expert on the Privatization of Knowledge

"Their profit margins are bigger than oil and gas. Most people don’t know this,” explains Alyssa Arbuckle, Associate Director of a digital humanities lab at the University of Victoria.

Creating Research Value Needs More Than Just Science - Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences Can Help

Creating Research Value Needs More Than Just Science - Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences Can Help

Mobilising value from science and technology needs help from thinkers, designers, makers, policymakers, and enablers - and this expertise often sits in the humanities, arts and social sciences domain.

Evidence-Informed Policymaking: Does Knowledge Brokering Work?

Evidence-Informed Policymaking: Does Knowledge Brokering Work?

Sarah Quarmby takes a look inside a knowledge broker organisation, the Wales Centre for Public Policy, to see how its day-to-day workings tally with the body of knowledge about evidence use in policymaking.

European Union, Worried About Rising Tensions, Plans to Boost Military Research

European Union, Worried About Rising Tensions, Plans to Boost Military Research

After decades of keeping a low profile in the military arena, the European Union is flexing its muscles.  Proposed European Defence Fund would spend EUR13 billion on R&D.

Study Finds Recommendation Letters Inadvertently Signal Doubt About Female Applicants More Than They Do for Men

Study Finds Recommendation Letters Inadvertently Signal Doubt About Female Applicants More Than They Do for Men

Letters about women include more doubt-raising phrases than those about men, and that even one such phrase can make a difference in a job search.

Diversity Begets Diversity: A Global Perspective on Gender Equality in Scientific Society Leadership

Diversity Begets Diversity: A Global Perspective on Gender Equality in Scientific Society Leadership

A checklist and recommendations for societies to contribute to global gender equality in science.

Sexual Harassment Is Rife in the Sciences, Finds Landmark US Study

Sexual Harassment Is Rife in the Sciences, Finds Landmark US Study

Existing policies to address the issue are ineffective, concludes a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Why the Medical Research Grant System Could Be Costing Us Great Ideas

Why the Medical Research Grant System Could Be Costing Us Great Ideas

Funding is harder to find in general, and the current approach favors low-risk research and proposals by older scientists and white men.