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UK Academics Face Furious Backlash for Encouraging Students to Vote

UK Academics Face Furious Backlash for Encouraging Students to Vote

Universities have a legal obligation to encourage voter registration. This has prompted an angry reaction in some areas.

Accelerating Scholarly Communication: The Transformative Role of Preprints

Accelerating Scholarly Communication: The Transformative Role of Preprints

Study explores the place of preprints in the research lifecycle from the points of view of researchers, research performing organisations, research funding organisations and preprint servers/service providers.

Meta-Research: A Collection of Articles

Meta-Research: A Collection of Articles

The study of science itself is a growing field of research. Also known as meta-science or the science of science, it involves studying the processes and decisions that shape the evolution of scientific research. This collection of articles highlights the breadth of meta-research with articles on topics as diverse as gender bias in peer review, statistical power in clinical trials and the readability of the scientific literature.

As SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites, Scientists See Threat to 'Astronomy Itself'

As SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites, Scientists See Threat to 'Astronomy Itself'

Various companies are pressing ahead with plans for internet service from space, which has prompted astronomers to voice concerns about the impact on research from telescopes on Earth.

A Turning Point is a Time for Reflection - Crossref

A Turning Point is a Time for Reflection - Crossref

Crossref strives for balance. Different people have always wanted different things from us and, since our founding, we have brought together diverse organizations to have discussions-sometimes contentious-to agree on how to help make scholarly communications better. Being inclusive can mean slow progress, but we've been able to advance by being flexible, fair, and forward-thinking. We have been helped by the fact that Crossref's founding organizations defined a clear purpose in our original certificate of incorporation, which reads:

Science Funds for Minority Colleges Become Political Football in the Senate

Science Funds for Minority Colleges Become Political Football in the Senate

Minority-serving colleges and universities are looking on helplessly as vital funding for their science, engineering and math programs are bogged down in the Senate morass.

Ethical Research - the Long and Bumpy Road from Shirked to Shared

Ethical Research - the Long and Bumpy Road from Shirked to Shared

From all too scarce, to professionalized, the ethics of research is now everybody's business, argues Sarah Franklin.

Academics Protest As Cambridge Fellow Told to Leave Britain

Academics Protest As Cambridge Fellow Told to Leave Britain

Letter warns immigration rules may damage UK universities' ability to attract global talent

Citizen Science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Citizen Science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Data from conventional sources cannot fully measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here the authors present a roadmap describing how citizen-science data can integrate traditional data and make a significant contribution in support of the SDGs agenda.

Identifying Publications in Questionable Journals in the Context of Performance-based Research Funding

Identifying Publications in Questionable Journals in the Context of Performance-based Research Funding

Study finds that the number of publications in open access journals rises every year, while the number of publications in questionable journals decreases from 2012 onwards. Both early career and more senior researchers publish in questionable journals.

Impact Factor Volatility to a Single Paper: A Comprehensive Analysis of 11639 Journals

Impact Factor Volatility to a Single Paper: A Comprehensive Analysis of 11639 Journals

Study find that Impact Factors (IF) are highly volatile. For example, one in ten journals had their IF boosted by more than 50% by their top three cited papers.

Who Owns H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs? The Taxpayers, U.S. Says

Who Owns H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs? The Taxpayers, U.S. Says

In an unexpected lawsuit, US federal officials claim that Gilead Sciences willfully disregarded government patents on medicines necessary to end the AIDS epidemic.

Math Looks The Same In The Brains Of Boys And Girls, Study Finds

Math Looks The Same In The Brains Of Boys And Girls, Study Finds

A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged in basic math tasks, researchers reported.

Physics Worth More to EU Economy Than Retail and Financial Services

Physics Worth More to EU Economy Than Retail and Financial Services

Industries that rely on physics expertise contribute more to the EU economy than financial services or retail, according to a new study.

Increasing Gender Diversity in the STEM Research Workforce

Increasing Gender Diversity in the STEM Research Workforce

In this article, potentially high-impact policy changesare outlined that build upon existing mechanisms for research funding and governance and that can be rapidly implemented to counteract barriers facing women in science. These approaches must be coupled to vigorous and continuous outcomes-based monitoring, so that the most successful strategies can be disseminated and widely implemented.

The Beijing Declaration on Research Data

The Beijing Declaration on Research Data

The Beijing Declaration is intended as a timely statement of core principles to encourage global cooperation, especially for public research data.

Nature at 150: Evidence in Pursuit of Truth

Nature at 150: Evidence in Pursuit of Truth

A century and a half has seen momentous changes in science. But evidence and transparency are more important than ever before.

Octopus: a Radical New Approach to Scientific Publishing

Octopus: a Radical New Approach to Scientific Publishing

In order to align incentives with good science, we need to move to a system in which work that is well thought-out, well carried-out, and well communicated – regardless of the ‘story’ it tells – is given the highest reward. Changing what is rewarded will change what is done.

Peer Review: New Initiatives to Enhance the Value of eLife's Process

Peer Review: New Initiatives to Enhance the Value of eLife's Process

Michael Eisen, eLife's Editor-in-Chief, reflects on lessons learned from a recent peer-review trial, and describes how eLife aims to make peer review more effective.