Open Data Publishing
An overview of open data for data publishers including information on database rights, best practices and added data to Wikidata.
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An overview of open data for data publishers including information on database rights, best practices and added data to Wikidata.
Amidst the push from universities and funding agencies for increased interdisciplinary research, interdisciplinarity has also been the subject of a number of critiques in recent years.
Time series and international data are also included.
Tuition tax out, but orphan drug credit reduced.
A primer on the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the ICT sector and opportunities for positive impact.
Agency analysts are told to avoid these 7 banned words and phrases in budget documents.
Agency will no longer set a 10-year cutoff for eligibility.
AAAS and APS presidents seek justice for physician and scientist Ahmadreza Djalali, who faces death sentence, in letter to Iran President Rouhani.
Current trends say generating new bitcoins will use all the power in the world by 2020.
Full membership is restored, but the Swiss are still counting the cost of being outside the EU research fold.
Slides explaining the publishing process and how Open Access fits in the traditional journal-subscription based model.
My bullying supervisor damaged my mental health. But when I decided to stand up to them, I received no support from my university.
Schools must encourage young people to question gender norms and behaviours, and ensure that sex education goes beyond biology
On the need to recognise good practice, engage researchers early in their career with research data management and use peers to talk to those who are not ‘onboard’.
Academic cultural critique is best served in blog form and there are a slew of academic blogs waiting to dish. We’ve picked 9 of the best academic blogs.
China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do - your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.
Without action, the UK might end up in the situation of funding both subscriptions and article-processing charges on an ongoing basis.
Lawsuit alleges that the institution mishandled complaints about cognitive scientist Florian Jaeger.
Professional isolation and stress-induced illness during a protracted investigation leave a survivor to wonder: Would keeping quiet have been the wiser choice?
Having children can offer unique career benefits, this scientist writes.
Science is a brutally competitive field. Long days in the lab are a given. Every hour of available time is an advantage, especially in the crucial early years of a postdoctoral career.
The latest report of the Knowledge Exchange initiative presents an overview and a synthesis of the evolving landscape of "Federated Research Data Infrastructures".
Nature investigates how many papers really end up without a single citation.
The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why.
Overall satisfaction with the peer review system used by scholarly journals seems to strongly vary across disciplines.