Shaping the future of research
Proceedings of participant-driven workshops and the organizers’ synthesis of the outcomes of a recent symposium for early career researchers.
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Nature makes all articles free to view
Nature will make its articles back to 1869 free to share to be read online but not to be printed or downloaded.
A changing research landscape
Bibliometrics has become an integral part of research quality evaluation and has been changing the practice of research.
Confusion over publisher's rules
PLOS open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations.
Open Library of Humanities submission system
The Open Library of Humanities is now open for submissions.
Harsh reality
Two reports highlight the plight of postdocs on both sides of the pond aiming for academia and how it might threathen research integrety.
Julia Goodfellow to be first female UUK president
Dame Julia Goodfellow will become the first ever woman to lead Universities UK (UUK), after being named its next president.
Professors take action
February 9 was a shock for many scientists in Switzerland. Now they start to speak up.
How sociologists made themselves irrelevant
In the effort to keep ourselves academically pure, we’ve also become largely irrelevant in molding the most important social enterprises of our era.
The peer-review scam
When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing systems. Editors are trying to plug the holes.
What counts as an academic publication?
While The Conversation is built around a journalistic model, there is a big growth in online, open-access journals each with different approaches to peer review.
Incentives for researchers
Each country, scholarly field, and institution has developed responses to new scholarly communication systems, and those policies and responses influence the behavior of the scholars within those systems.
Counting the costs of OA
The estimated cost to UK research organisations of achieving compliance with OA mandates in 2013/2014.
How to reduce the administrative burden in research
How to reduce the administrative burden in research
CASRAI is an international non-profit dedicated to reducing the administrative burden on researchers and improving business intelligence capacity of research institutions and funders.
To some a citation is worth $3 per year
Everyone knows the peer review system is broken, but it’s difficult to break free of when incentives are aligned to maintain it.
OpenCon 2014
A playlist of all videos from OpenCon 2014, the Student and Early Career Conference on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.
Unpaid bills complicate EU science budget crisis
A political impasse and a mounting pile of debts pose a threat to research in Europe.
Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals.
Counting the Costs of OA in the UK
SPARC Europe and London Higher have jointly commissioned a study by Research Consulting into the overhead costs to universities of complying with the RCUK OA policy.
Confusion over publisher's pioneering open-data rules
The Public Library of Science’s open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations.
Wellcome Trust wants research dreams to flourish
Director Jeremy Farrar on new plans to support more young scientists and ambitious projects, large and small.
Wellcome Trust announces major funding scheme changes
Early career researchers among those targeted for extra support
Now Google wants your genome
For $25 a year, Google will keep a copy of any genome in the cloud.
Gutausgebildete sagen der Schweiz Goodbye
One out of eight highly skilled students emigrates from Switzerland. The big looser is the state. But where do they go?
Why isn't academic research free to everyone?
Scholarly articles, filled with indubitable knowledge and analysis, only exist for the general public behind pricey paywalls. So one lecturer is advocating for them to be free of charge.
Aaron Swartz was no criminal
One of Swartz' lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT's gutless support of his prosecutors.
Peer review is fraught with problems, and we need a fix
Problems and limitations of the traditional and alternative peer review methods.
Science journals have passed their expiration date
Technology has helped so many industries evolve over the past few decades, but scientific publishing, surprisingly, has hardly changed since the first journal article in 1665.
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