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In an effort to strengthen and secure the network of non-commercial services that underpin the burgeoning field of Open Science, a newly-formed coalition of international organisations is spearheading an unconventional appeal.
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn’t exist,” says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
Current estimates for the cost of subscription articles converge around US$5,000 per article. This number is reached by dividing the estimated US$10b spent on subscriptions annually world-wide.
Though women earn significantly more bachelor’s degrees than men, they are substantially less likely to obtain a degree in science, technology, engineering or math.
Fostering collaboration and good data practices in faculties.
When a clinical trial falters, doctors find themselves sifting through the rubble.
The OECD has just released a comprehensive report on Science, Technology and Industry for 2017. So how is France doing?
Springer Nature is considering a potential 4-5 billion euro stock market listing next year.
Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.
Legal methods to retrieve paywalled articles for free are on the rise, but better self-archiving practices could help improve accessibility.
Retraction Watch interviews Irene Hames.
When fellow scientists critiqued Mark Jacobson, he took their dispute to court.
"It is not statistics that is broken, but how it is applied to science." - S. Goodman
Peer review decisions award >95% of academic medical research funding, so it is crucial to understand how well they work and if they could be improved.
For the year 2016, 28.9 % of all peer-reviewed articles produced within the Finnish universities were reported as being OA.
The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market.
The UK government’s long-awaited industrial strategy has arrived. It brings with it a fund to support interdisciplinary research and funding boosts for both the research councils and quality-related research funding.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences.
Climate updates describes how our understanding of the science of climate change, and its impacts, have progressed since the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed reaction from the research community.
A small community of scientists has taken a do-it-yourself approach to microscopy: when the right tool for the job doesn’t exist, make it.
New report considers the developments and varying perspectives of blockchain technology and its possible impact on the academic arena.
Combining the minds of humans and machines to avoid confirmation bias.
