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Leading figures from policy, science, publishing and advocacy discuss how open science can maximise the value of research and innovation for our societies.
Of all 956,050,193 references from journal articles stored at Crossref, 32.00% are from journal articles published by Elsevier, none of which are in the Crossref “Open” category, freely available for others to use.
Creating a culture of replication takes prizes, grants and magnanimity — as well as publications.
Academia needs to carefully evaluate why new family friendly policies have not been very effective.
A new movement calls for tech investors to back more start-ups led by women and people from ethnic minorities.
'Free science'/pirate site operator 'working on solving DNS issue'
Adequate sample size is key to reproducible research findings: low statistical power can increase the probability that a statistically significant result is a false positive.
High-risk, high-reward ideas in areas such as AI, blockchain and synthetic biology are typical contenders for support from the EU’s new Innovation Council.
STEMM Equality Congress (SEC) is an annual two day event that looks at ways of addressing equality and diversity in STEMM through policy, practice and collaboration. 2018's Congress will be held in Amsterdam.
A US Research Integrity Advisory Board is long overdue. Such a leadership body would mitigate bad practices and strengthen good research.
While green and gold open access have been put forward as two worthy emperors, it is time to conclude that they are unclothed.
In this piece, I will explain how the explanation of the emergence of life could also explain the mechanism of Deep Learning.
Journals are adopting policies that require the disclosure of individual authors’ contributions. However, it is not clear whether and how these disclosures improve upon the conventional approach.
This Thanksgiving, we bring you four portraits of immigrants in tech—from the C-Suite to the gig economy.
With the revision to the Copyright Act, the Federal Council wants to strengthen the rights and interests of creative artists and the cultural industries by taking a resolute approach to pirated online content.
Scientific careers are built on recognition. It influences every stage of employment, from obtaining your first postdoc to landing an academic position or winning funding.
Here's a list of more cultural things we can do to reduce the stress/pressure around the reproducibility crisis.
Some of the 1,250 people working at the year-old laboratory say its open plan layout, designed to produce collaboration, makes it hard to focus on work
By day, "Olivia Doll" sits on the boards of seven academic journals; by night, she's a Staffordshire terrier named Ollie, owned by Mike Daube, a public health expert in Perth, Australia.
Claiming overreach by a new publisher, the journal’s editorial board asks for disciplinary action from the National Library of Medicine.
On the important role of professional medical writers in improving the quality of reports on clinical trials.
The accusations against the Hollywood producer have prompted frank conversations about sexual misconduct. But it will still take a lot to shift how higher education treats such cases, experts say.
Tool to scrutinize research papers identifies mistakes in gene sequences.
