Reproducing results: how big is the problem?
Paul Jump examines the many reasons for irreproducibility in science and efforts to tackle it.
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Barriers to Open Access publishing: views from the library literature
Insights into the most prevalent issues hindering the development of open access.
Unpatients - why patients should own their medical data
Unpatients - why patients should own their medical data
For the benefits of digital medicine to be fully realized, we need not only to find a shared home for personal health data but also to give individuals the right to own them.
Living science: Triaging Shakespeare
What if every creative endeavor had to go through Peer Review? Indira M Raman considers the possibility.
The ReScience Journal
ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research, promoting new and open-source implementations in order to ensure that the original research is reproducible.
Nikola Tesla on gender equality and how technology will unleash women's true potential
Nikola Tesla on gender equality and how technology will unleash women's true potential
One of Tesla’s predictions peers into the future of society’s changing gender roles and considers how the advent of wireless technology would empower women, liberating us to develop our full intellectual potential repressed by the patriarchy for centuries.
Women are funded more fairly in social science
UK data hold lessons for how to close the gender gap in bioscience grant applications, success and size, argue Paul Boyle and colleagues.
Report claims success for elite universities drive
Report praises US$5-billion scheme for making leading universities more competitive - but some smaller institutions have done just as well.
Agencies plan research-ethics overhaul
Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.
Discrete Analysis
Well-known mathematician, Tim Gowers, launches an arXiv.org-overlay journal "Discrete Analysis" with no charges for both readers and authors.
arXiv.org will use ORCID identifiers
arXiv will use ORCID iDs in preference to the internal arXiv author identifiers in order to facilitate better data exchange. The arXiv author identifiers will remain to provide local user profile pages.
Fifth retraction for Voinnet follows correction
After correcting a paper due to problematic figure panels, researchers led by Olivier Voinnet have now retracted it.
Preprints and the speed of science
Peer review is often claimed to be the guarantor of the trustworthiness of scientific papers, but it is a troubled process. Preprints offer a way out.
Research funding should be 'simpler'
UK Minister for Universities and Science Jo Johnson wants to see a "simpler" research funding system as well as faster routes for private provider "challenger institutions" to enter higher education.
The self-fulfilling prophecy of fear of academic failure
Academic success in Higher Education is influenced by a number of different factors. This paper tackles the question if the individual levels of motivation, anxiety, enjoyment and self-efficacy, measured immediately before entering university, influence the probability of academic success. Former studies have shown an influence of the high school grade, the learning environment and motivational variables. They do not investigate, however, the individual levels of the mentioned constructs before the beginning of the studies. This research was conducted at the University of St. Gallen/Switzerland. The sample includes 695 first-year students who provided information about the individual level of the mentioned constructs.
Psychology Is Not in Crisis
Failure to replicate is not a bug; it is a feature. It is what leads us along the path of scientific discovery.
Institutions must do their part for reproducibility
Tie funding to verified good institutional practice, and robust science will shoot up the agenda.
Why we need to rank by innovation
University league tables do not pay enough attention to institutions’ innovative spirit, argues the European Commission’s Gerard de Graaf.
Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research
This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining by academic researchers.
Pay academics bonuses to boost productivity, study suggests
Performance-related pay causes the best academics to cluster together, evidence from Germany suggests.
JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
The world's first peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed scientific video journal.
JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator
Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!
What ETH Zurich paid to Elsevier, Springer and Wiley
By paying 3.5 Mio CHF for Elsevier journals in 2014 the ETH tops all British universities..
PubPeer founders reveal themselves, create foundation
The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site..
A new journal wants to publish your research ideas
The new journal RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) will publish papers on your methods, workflows, data, reports, and software - in short, all outputs of the research cycle.
How methods videos are making science smarter
Methods videos rising popularity has been spurred on by the so-called replication crisis, itself partly a result of the growing sophistication and interdisciplinary nature of life-science research.
The 12 hottest startups in Switzerland
We collected some of Switzerland's most exciting technology startups and ranked them by the amount raised, headcount, and how cool and original they are.
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