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Nature has just announce plans to create a Machine Intelligence imprint, and researchers in this normally open access field are not happy. Over two thousand have signed a statement saying they won’t publish in it.
Across time, public understanding about how science works is affected by journalism. A journalist, with very little extra effort, can increase the accuracy of public understanding and minimize public vulnerability to distortions of science.
Men were more likely to secure health research grants than women in Canadian study.
Study finds that countries ranking higher on measures of gender equality tend to have fewer women pursuing a STEM education than those further down the gender equality ranks. The analysis suggests that there are girls with the grades, confidence, and the enjoyment of science to go into STEM, who still end up pursuing other careers. For the numerous organizations dedicated to addressing the problem of women’s underrepresentation in science, solutions are far from clear.
Sneha Kulkarni from Editage takes a look at the ever-increasing global scientific output, and asks questions about quantity versus quality.
The financial pressure that publishers impose on libraries is a worldwide concern. Gold open-access publishing with an expensive article-processing charge paid by the authors is often presented as an ideal solution to this problem. However, such a system threatens less-funded departments and even article quality.
There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many.
Institutions including Oxford and Cambridge under scrutiny as the number of academic misconduct cases surges.
An informal group of like minded organizations coming together around a common purpose: work on a joint roadmap for open science tools.
Response to a proposed rule announced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a 24 April 2018 press release.
Perspectives on the benefits of open peer review, and responding to concerns.
This study finds that 73.7 percent of articles about OA are openly available.
As Inder Verma soared at Salk Institute, women say a parallel tale of unwelcome advances and comments unfolded.
Inequality is reproduced (and whiteness is institutionalized) by citation patterns as earlier periods of overt exclusion are legitimated by an almost ritualistic citation of certain thinkers.
PLOS ONE has created a Physical Sciences and Engineering team as part of a wider effort to better serve our communities through subject-specific in-house editorial groups.
Contrary to commonsense belief, attempts to measure productivity through performance metrics discourage initiative, innovation and risk-taking. The entrepreneurial element of human nature is stifled by metric fixation.
Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. While these changes may generate some positive publicity for the company, they are likely to compound the real problem, further diminishing transparency and opportunities for independent oversight.
If you are a scientist, there are many compelling reasons to openly share your source code, from reproducibility to increasing impact.
When one of the first online science journals went under, its papers all disappeared. Enter: Portico, the Wayback Machine for scholarly publications.
Commission Recommendation of 25 April 2018 on access to and preservation of scientific information.
Images from Landsat satellites and agricultural-survey programme are freely available to scientists - but for how long?
Women with female PhD supervisors publish more papers and are 50% more likely to become academics than those with male advisers.
