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There is a significant discrepancy between the reality of academic publishing and the optimism of politicians and science functionaries who praise Open Access as a panacea for all the ills afflicting science culture.
Open Science Training Handbook now open for comments and suggestions until 4th of March 2018.
Wellcome, in partnership with Crossref and several research funders including the NIH and the MRC, are looking to pilot an initiative in which new grants would be assigned an open, global and interoperable grant identifier.
If clinicians are expected to change their practice based on their reading of medical journals, they need to know that the evidence in published papers can be verified.
The website Levers in Heels, which features African women in STEM, in January called on the internet to tweet the names of African women scientists. People shared hundreds.
What happens when you cite someone’s research? Have you ever wondered what happens with citation data that you produce and how it is being used by others? Citation data is not released automatically - by default the references are hidden from the public eye and can only be obtained from Crossref with specific consent from the publisher.
It’s wreaking havoc in universities and jeopardizing the progress of research.
Signed reviews could encourage reviewers to produce more careful evaluations, and make fewer gratuitously negative comments. Publicly identifying and crediting reviewers for their work could help them win tenure and promotions.
Empirical study examining the similarities and distinguishing features of scientific attention as measured by citations and public attention in online fora.
More than hundred and ten libraries have signed an open letter to Taylor & Francis: the academic research which was previously available to universities as part of the Taylor & Francis "big deal" will now have to be purchased as a separate package.
She was a physicist, too—and there is evidence that she contributed significantly to his groundbreaking science.
The U.S. government does not consider sexual harassment a form of scientific misconduct. Should it?
Roughly six-in-ten black STEM workers say they have experienced any of eight specific forms of racial or ethnic discrimination at work.
What two Times journalists learned from trying to quote more female experts.
Striking success has been had in catalyzing retractions by publicly calling out perplexing data and spotting anomalies in the literature.
Last summer we launched our interactive figures initiative with plotly. Since then, we have published 22 interactives figures in seven articles across two platforms. In this post authors describe their figures and share why they wanted to make them interactive.
Statistical significance and hypothesis testing are not really helpful when it comes to testing our hypotheses.
Institutions have made little progress against the misuse of research metrics when hiring and promoting academics.
HHMI meeting examines ways to improve manuscript vetting: little consensus on whether reviewers should have to publicly sign their critiques, which traditionally are accessible only to editors and authors.
The case for decentralized, trusted platforms for the dissemination of scientific information and attribution.
