NSF unveils plan to make scientific papers free
Scientific journal articles will become freely available, thanks to new policies at major U.S. science agencies.
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ERC activities and achievements in 2014
The main goal of the European Research Council (ERC) is to encourage high quality research in Europe through competitive funding
Wiley-Publons pilot program enhances peer-reviewer recognition
Wiley is piloting a partnership with Publons to give you official recognition for your peer review work. This partnership means you can opt-in to have your reviews for participating Wiley journals automatically added to your reviewer profile on Publons.
Data.gov: Open with apps
Data.gov now enables the public to open data directly with apps like Plotly and CartoDB for robust visualization and analysis. New tools are making it easier to visualize and analyze data at the click of a button.
23andMe expands into the drug discovery business
Personal genetics firm 23andMe has revealed it is to launch a new drug discovery and development division.
The Hague Declaration
The Hague Declaration aims to foster agreement about how to best enable access to facts, data and ideas for knowledge discovery in the Digital Age. Following a period of public comment, our global experts are now preparing the final version of the text.
Ukraine joins Horizon 2020 to work with EU in science and research
Ukraine will now be able to fully participate in Horizon 2020 on equal terms with EU Member States and other associated countries.
ThinkLab
ThinkLab
ThinkLab is a platform that aims to facilitate and reward a 'massively collaborative', open, online model of research.
Ramakrishnan to lead Royal Society
The next president of the Royal Society will be the Nobel-winning Cambridge researcher Prof Sir Venki Ramakrishnan. He will succeed geneticist Sir Paul Nurse in December 2015.
Tax dispute brings US banking hassles for researchers
Swiss researchers who work in the US are having trouble keeping their bank accounts in Switzerland due to complications from long-standing tax evasion issues between the two countries.
Science doesn't only need sprinters
Reasons for removing time-bound criteria from MRC fellowship applications to help give people the time they need.
The glaring paradox of impact vs. experience in biology journals
The professionally trained scientists who make decisions on biology papers at the big journals with the big journal impact factors have significantly less scientific experience and far weaker publication records than the editors of lower journal impact factor biology journals.
Why you can't always believe what you read in scientific journals
When people talk about the flaws in the scientific process, they often raise the problem of peer review. Right now, when a researcher submits an article for publication in a journal, it's sent off to his or her peers for constructive criticism or even rejection.
An exciting alternative to university science research
An exciting alternative to university science research
Free from bureaucracy, independent science labs offer a flexibility that can't be matched by universities.
A better future for everyone
Things are improving for women working in most STEM-based fields, although there are some notable exceptions.
A clean, green science machine
As the world warms and technology improves, researchers and institutions should look at their carbon footprints and question whether they really need to travel to academic conferences.
The effect of document properties and collaboration patterns
This paper analyses the main patterns of five social media metrics as a function of document characteristics (i.e., discipline, document type, title length, number of pages and references) and collaborative practices and compares them to patterns known for citations.
Women in science
This data tool illustrates the extent to which the scientific community is losing a talented workforce.
On the importance of being negative
Negative findings matter too and new OA publications are helping researchers to give a fuller account of themselves.
Mistrust and meddling unsettles US science agency
Republicans in the US Congress have put the NSF under the microscope, questioning its decisions on individual grants and the purpose of entire fields of study.
An astonishingly small number of elite graduate schools produce the academics who get jobs
An astonishingly small number of elite graduate schools produce the academics who get jobs
An astonishingly small number of elite universities produce an overwhelming number of professors.
Psychology retractions have quadrupled since 1989
Psychology has been home to some of the most infamous cases of fraud in recent years, and while it's just a few bad apples who are spoiling the bunch, the field itself has seen an overall increase in retractions.
World Reputation Rankings 2015
Times Higher Education's definitive list of the top 100 most powerful world university brands.
In the beginning
This month marks the 350th anniversary of arguably the first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.
We can make science funding go further by better sharing equipment
We can make science funding go further by better sharing equipment
A new report suggests more sharing of research equipment may be a better way of getting more bang out of the science funding buck than clawing back ‘efficiency savings’ out of grant funding.
Crowdsourcing decision-making lands you in trouble
Crowdsourcing decision-making lands you in trouble
Giving equal weight to everybody’s opinion might be the worse thing you could do.
Will double-blind reviewing bring quality into focus?
Nature is offering anonymity for both reviewer and reviewed, but questions remain about value and effectiveness of the approach.
Mediators propose CERN-like organization for Human Brain Project
The HBP should be remade into an international organization modeled on CERN or the EMBL in Heidelberg, says a panel formed to unite the neuroscience community.
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