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The Ethics and Economics of Academic Publishing

The Ethics and Economics of Academic Publishing

Is it unethical for a Publisher to extract content from an academic author and commercially benefit from the sale of this without returning any of the economic gains back to the provider of that content or his/her employer?

If Trump Wants to Make America Great Again, the Nation Should Spend More on R&D, Not Less

If Trump Wants to Make America Great Again, the Nation Should Spend More on R&D, Not Less

The president’s proposed cuts to research funding would cripple American innovation. We should be spending more on R&D, not less.

ProgrammingHistorian.org

ProgrammingHistorian.org

A novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.

Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?

Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?

The pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the biomedical literature.

Under Fire, National Academies Toughen Conflict-of-Interest Policies

Under Fire, National Academies Toughen Conflict-of-Interest Policies

Critics of two reports by the academies have cited potential disclosure problems among study panelists. Now, an official says, the idea of a policy review "has just gained more and more traction."

Too Many Studies Have Hidden Conflicts of Interest. A New Tool Makes It Easier to See Them.

Too Many Studies Have Hidden Conflicts of Interest. A New Tool Makes It Easier to See Them.

PubMed, the Google of scientific search, is now publishing funding information in its abstracts.

Inside eLife: Forking Software Used in ELife Papers to GitHub

Inside eLife: Forking Software Used in ELife Papers to GitHub

New eLife's GitHub account to track new software or a new algorithm when they are central to an article and to make sure that the right version of the code that was used within an article persists.

Jimmy Wales Goes After Fake News with Wikitribune

Jimmy Wales Goes After Fake News with Wikitribune

In an exclusive video with WIRED, Wales said he wants Wikitribune to 'bring the fact-based, fact-checking mentality we know from Wikipedia to news'

What We Can Learn From Tweets Linking to Research Papers

What We Can Learn From Tweets Linking to Research Papers

3 basic issues inherent in using tweets for research evaluation: whose tweets can be used to assess a paper, what objects can be evaluated, and how to score the paper according to each tweet.

March for Science: Protesters Gather Worldwide to Support 'Evidence'

March for Science: Protesters Gather Worldwide to Support 'Evidence'

Crowds massed in the US capital and around the world Saturday to support science and evidence-based research -- a protest partly fueled by opposition to President Donald Trump's threats of budget cuts to agencies funding scientists' work.

More Surgeons Must Start Doing Basic Science

More Surgeons Must Start Doing Basic Science

They say they don't have the time or incentives to do research — and that’s dangerous for translational medicine.

Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.

Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.

Patients in red states and blue states alike benefit from work funded by the National Institutes of Health

Donald Trump Shouldn’t Appoint a Science Adviser. He Doesn’t Deserve One, and It Won’t Help.

Donald Trump Shouldn’t Appoint a Science Adviser. He Doesn’t Deserve One, and It Won’t Help.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has been headless since Donald Trump moved into the White House.

SHERPA RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving

SHERPA RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving

SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving.

Ways to Remove Greenhouse Gases to Be Investigated with New £2m Grant

Ways to Remove Greenhouse Gases to Be Investigated with New £2m Grant

An Imperial-led study will focus on how the world can meet climate change targets by removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.