NEJM doubles down on resistance to data sharing
NEJM doubles down on resistance to data sharing
An editorial argues that data sharing can cripple scientific progress and harm patients, but there are myriad flaws with that reasoning.
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Chemists to get preprint server of their own
American Chemical Society to lead effort to match other disciplines
What it costs to publish in eLife
We present a deeper view of our 2015 financials, covering publishing and non-publishing expenses. As part of our ambition to change how science publishing works, especially among highly selective journals, we hope that being transparent about our costs will help to set a future course for research communication that is efficient and sustainable.
Digital Science White Paper
Through highlighting six recent advances in research infrastructure, this whitepaper seeks to recast how we think about metadata - not as a series of static records, but as objects that move between systems and organizations.
ChemRxiv: A preprint server to promote early research sharing
American Chemical Society announces intention to establish “ChemRxiv” preprint server to promote early research sharing
How Scientific Success in Physics Depends on Network Positions
Utilizing 250,000 papers from ArXiv.org we construct large coauthorship networks to investigate how individual network positions influence scientific success. Surprisingly, inter(sub)disciplinary collaborations decrease the probability of getting a paper published in specialized journals for almost all positions.
A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany
A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany
How much German universities and research organisations spent on open access publication fees.
Confirming What We Already Knew About Open Access
A new study from the University of California system confirms much of what we already knew about open access, particularly the increased financial burden it places on productive universities.
World Academic Summit 2016
LinkedIn co-founder, a Nobel laureate and more than 10 university presidents among high-profile speakers at Times Higher Education’s flagship event.
Replications, ridicule and a recluse
As failures to replicate results using the CRISPR alternative stack up, a quiet scientist stands by his claims.
The Replication Crisis
Stephanie Wykstra Ivan Oransky Stuart Buck Brian Nosek Julia Galef (Moderator) How can we produce research findings that are both useful and robust?
Nature Index Institution outputs
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. Updated monthly, the Nature Index presents research outputs by institution and country. Use the Nature Index to interrogate publication patterns and to benchmark research performance.
Supporting Sci-Hub vs. Explaining Sci-Hub
Association of American Publishers complains about Cal State librarian who studies popularity of pirated scientific papers. Cal State defends its librarian.
Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line
Think tanks are seen as independent, but their scholars often push donors’ agendas, amplifying a culture of corporate influence in Washington.
Yes, Serious Academics Should Absolutely Use Social Media
Like the phone, typewriter, or parchment and ink, social media is a tool for communicating with our fellow humans. It’s the best we’ve ever had, in fact.
Iran executes nuclear scientist who returned to country from US
Iranian judiciary confirms hanging of Shahram Amiri who it claims was a spy who had given away state secrets
Journal-Flipping
Harvard Library publishes report on converting subscription journals to open access.
I’m a non-serious academic. I make no apologies for this
Dean Burnett: Some scientists argue that social media use is pointless. This scientist disagrees.
Accountability in academic publishing
Currently, there is no record of previous submission of a paper to other journals and the comments it might have received in the journey to the final publication. A paper that might have been rejected by three or four journals goes into press, and people hear about the results without any of the background scientific debate and conversation that led to this publicatio.
The Replication Game: How Well Do Psychology Studies Hold Up?
Researchers have created a new system to test influential papers for reproducibility.
Science Communication as a Moral Imperative
While things are improving, we need to do a much better job of encouraging scientists to be stronger communicators, and share the wonders of science, and the important results of their research, to the broader world. To do less is a moral failure of science and academia.
I'm a serious academic, not a professional Instagrammer
We should not have to parade ourselves on social media to please our employers or be considered enthusiastic
Research impact of paywalled versus open access papers
Study showing open access papers have a 50% greater citation advantage than articles behind paywalls.
Nobel-Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 70
Ahmed H. Zewail, an Egyptian-American who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for developing a revolutionary technique to observe the dance of molecules as they break apart and come together in chemical reactions, died on Tuesday. He was 70.
NSF tries two-step review, drawing praise—and darts
Thousands of conservation and environmental biologists must now survive two rounds of peer review before getting funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF says that the two-stage review process, which it launched 4 years ago as a pilot project in two divisions within its biology directorate, has resulted in a more manageable workload and fuller consideration of the highest-quality proposals.
Researchers Push Back Against Journals’ Demands That Medical Data Be Shared
Researchers Push Back Against Journals’ Demands That Medical Data Be Shared
Hundreds of scientists said the research community isn’t yet ready to release data on a relatively quick turnaround.
The 10 principles of open research data : Scientific Data
The 10 principles of open research data : Scientific Data
With the publication of the Concordat on Open Research Data last week, the UK further cemented its leadership position in promoting access to tax payer-funded research data.
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