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For most of history, the easiest way to block the spread of an idea was to keep it from being mechanically disseminated. In today’s networked environment, it would seem that censorship ought to be impossible. This should be the golden age of free speech.
UCL Press is launching a new open access megajournal that will provide academics and students with ground-breaking research free of charge in a move that challenges traditional commercial publishing models.
Oxford University Press has today joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC).
This article describes the use of qualitative research to explore the peer review process used for awarding grants to ten multi-national natural science research consortia
The leaders of Elsevier have now decided that the epoch of journals will soon be over, argues the former editor of the BMJ.
Han Chunyu retracted disputed ‘breakthrough’ research but still enjoys support from university and local government.
The NSF encourages people to help build a better, more informed society by participating in Citizen Science, or Public Participation in Scientific Research in a program designed to engage the public in addressing societal needs and accelerating science, technology, and innovation.
As a culture and a profession, medicine continues to systematically disadvantage women physicians at every stage of their careers.
More EU ministers and commissioners are voicing support for bigger research and innovation funding - but the political argument is a long way from won. To win the case for more funding, innovation fans are going to have to talk, not abstractly, but concretely.
When rewards such as funding of grants or publication in prestigious journals emphasize novelty at the expense of testing previously published results, science risks developing cracks in its foundation.
A small group of researchers is studying how science could destroy the world - and how to stop that from happening.
We ran data on the scientific publications of 37 laureates of the Nobel prizes in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry. The results showed that those laureates have produced knowledge that has been taken up in innovation more widely than the work of the average US or world scientist.
Using newly available open access status data, year-on-year open access levels are explored across research fields, languages, countries, institutions, funders and topics, and the resulting patterns are related to disciplinary, national and institutional contexts.
Style guide presents central principles, issues, and innovations regarding open access citations.
Analysis suggesting that trustworthiness of published science in a given field is influenced by false positive rate, and pressures for positive results. We find decreasing available funding has negative consequences for resulting trustworthiness, and examine strategies to combat propagation of irreproducible science.
New in-depth look at the price of hosting EU and non-EU students shows benefits far outweigh cost to taxpayer
Metrics from different sources are compared in two studies published as preprints. The research indicated that altmetrics, as currently framed, are significantly weaker indicators of research quality - as measured by expert peers’ assessments - than traditional metrics.
Paper advising universities to provide early-career researchers with temporal space for research and networking, facilitate stays at other universities, inform them about career success factors, and tailor faculty development programmes to the distinct stages of academic careers.
An article addressing the constant struggle to improve science communication.
It’s easier than ever to learn how to produce captivating clips that can boost your scientific outreach - or open the door to a new job.
On the role of different stakeholders on how to collectively improve the process of scholarly communications not only for preprints, but other forms of scholarly contributions.
US male PhD holders earn more than female counterparts across nearly every scientific field.
There is a replication crisis spreading through the annals of scientific inquiry.
