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Requirements for citations to be treated as First-Class Data Entities In my introductory blog post, I listed five requirements for the treatment of citations as first-class data entities. The thir…
With state intervention back in vogue, and publishers’ profit margins still sky-high, journals could be the next monopoly to come under scrutiny.
The journal Archives of Iranian Medicine just published a set of 33 papers about one study.
When you criticize science in public, you are taking a complicated argument to people who don’t care very much about the work of someone who wishes you’d shut up. This can be difficult to navigate. Although it’s often ‘a complete pain in the taint’ more than just ‘difficult’.
Canada's Budget 2018 has been released by Finance Minister Bill Morneau. In this post, Brooke Struck examines the budget's implications for Canada's three research granting councils.
Given significant changes in publishing research article over the past dozen or so years, the Wellcome Trust thinks the time is right to look again at its OA policy.
Fixing the problems with seeing, finding, and using software mentioned in the literature.
Reasons to adopt the ORCID identifier and accept the CRediT taxonomy.
Without the extension of the program - or a pathway to citizenship - those who know what it’s like to be undocumented say U.S. science could suffer.
In 1940, the AAUP published a Statement on Academic Freedom. In 2018, it's time for it to be updated--and some items clarified.
The altering of the Chinese national constitution to remove the text limiting China’s president and vice-president to two terms, cementing Xi Jinping’s leadership possibly for the next two decades, will mean a further ideological tightening in universities, and an extension of ‘Xi Jinping research’ in institutions.
Chinese officials say they are seeing a payoff from their investments in higher education.
Some scientists say they should have the right to review stories in which their work or words are covered prior to publication. Journalists disagree.
Elsevier announced a partnership with a nonprofit named Hypothesis, which makes annotation software that lets readers make margin notes on online articles.
On his last day in one of the most powerful research seats in Europe, Robert-Jan Smits talks about his legacy and the future.
HRB Open Research is a platform for rapid, open access publication and open peer review of any research funded by the Health Research Board.
A set of criteria behind PLOS recommended data repositories.
Decolonising knowledge and democratising information is the great promise of our times. With universal access to knowledge, we can begin to achieve the potential of the Internet and provide a better world for future generations.
Science is not a belief system. It is rather a defined process we can use to accurately answer questions and come to a better understanding of our natural world.
With some 173,000 articles during the period 2011-2015, Switzerland produced 1% of worldwide publications. It is therefore in the top 20 countries of all sizes that publish the most scientific articles.
Pension changes spur more than 40,000 university academics to walk out on research activities, conferences and lectures.
New Stanford research shows how companies alienate women before they start working.
FAIRsharing.org: a series of open data resources and tools, and an outlet for the developers and maintainers of these resources to emphasize the approach they take to ensure the data they host and serve are increasingly FAIR.
Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers.
From efforts to increase the transparency of the review process to initiatives offering training, there are many attempts underway to make better reviewers out of researchers.
