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New program aims to recruit and retain early-career scientists who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Federally funded research will now come with an open access clause – but uncertainties remain
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing predatory journal publishing company, OMICS Group, for hiding fees and deceiving researchers. It's a first for the largely unregulated industry.
ScienceOpen has teamed up with OpenAIRE and Digital-Science, alongside two of their portfolio companies – Figshare and Overleaf, to organise an OpenCon ‘satellite’ event to be held in Berlin on the 24-26th November.
Peer reviews created by self-generated text machines are the latest threat to scientific integrity.
Anonymous individual or group claims that 22 papers from the University of Tokyo contain fabricated or falsified data.
The move to providing the underlying data behind research articles has been a major step towards promoting reproducibility, transparency and data re-use. However, analyses of the quality and annota…
As we celebrate Peer Review Week, this post summarizes some of the reviewer preferences along with ways to boost recognition for peer review activities.
The relatively new exception to copyright law that we enjoy in the UK, permitting text and data mining (TDM) for the purposes of non-commercial research, offers potential to further knowledge and make scientific and medical breakthroughs.
We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus beginning to emerge?
We don't know what knowledge we'll need in the future, and that's where maths research comes in.
Science is a public good and deserves to be valued more highly and used effectively by decision-makers at all levels.
As a researcher who gets such severe criticism, you have to go through the 5 stages of grief...
An interview with Tom Culley, Marketing Director of Publons, on how provide recognition for this vital part of the scientific process.
Windows, desks and employees are being wired up in a quest to create healthy, evidence-based environments.
Recap of contest launched by the Winnower and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to answer the question – How do we ensure that research is reproducible?
The Lars Løkke Rasmussen government is moving to cut funding for universities and the student financing system and increase political control over higher education institutions.
It’s the most wondrous time of the year! Peer Review Week is the time when the scholarly communications community comes together to recognise the importance and value of peer review and peer review…
Researchers will have to publicly report the results of many more clinical trials under new government rules announced Friday.
The tension between simple but invalid indicators that are widely used and more sophisticated indicators that are not used or cannot be used in evaluation practices because they are not transparent for users, cannot be calculated, or are difficult to interpret.
This paper presents a brief overview of emerging policies to open up access to research data in the United States.
Post-coup crackdown has led to a huge number of requests for help, say charities for at-risk scholars.
Don't believe every science study you read, because sometimes not even their authors believe them. Here are the issues corrupting good, honest science – and how to fix them.
Today, a scientist's most desired citation may be from a publication not often thought of as prestigious: Wikipedia.
Two and a half years ago now, a narrow majority of the Swiss electorate approved the so-called popular 'Stop Mass Immigration' initiative or MEI proposed by the Swiss People’s Party or SVP...
Postdoc positions in industry can teach people skills that they would not learn in academia.
Investigators are now required to disclose all clinical trials, whether successful or not.
NIH wants to expand the sharing of summary data from clinical trials, such as test results being reviewed here at NIH’s clinical center.
