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Wiley claim they are committed to moving towards greater openness and reproducibility of research, including increasing transparency in peer review
You can restore credibility to Congress and lead on issues from opioid addiction to clean water
The Swiss Programme for International Research by Scientific Investigation Teams promotes team-oriented cross-border research.
International University of Sarajevo (IUS) is the only university in the West Balkans that created and is implementing a Gender Equality Plan in higher education.
The gender gap in research productivity varies widely from study to study. This paper looks at how (and why) measuring productivity in different ways provides different pictures of the gender gap.
Men produce twice as many scientific publications as women. At least that's the long-held assumption. But Lynn Nygaard, a special adviser and doctoral research fellow at PRIO, challenges this widespread belief in her recent article.
The Ascent of Open Access analyses the Open Access landscape since the turn of the millennium. A key finding of the report is that the volume of Open Access articles has clearly been rising in recent years
Some U.S. researchers knew of a Chinese scientist's intentions to implant edited embryos but were unable to stop him. Now scientific institutions are trying to devise global safeguards.
In 2018, the OLH launched the EmpowOA programme, designed to provide scholars and librarians working in the humanities with tools, spaces and cogent arguments about open access. Now, the OLH extend the functionality for the visitors to the website
More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics.
An existential threat. That's what scientific societies supported by journal subscriptions call Plan S.
How has the open data movement matured over 2018 and what opportunities does it create for publishers in 2019?
Open Data Day is the yearly event where we gather to reach out to new people and build new solutions to issues in our communities using open data. To make sure some of those events have everything they needed to be great for their communities, mini-grants for the people organizing Open Data Day events will be provided.
Seemingly owned by an Oxbridge Essays shareholder, company offers up to 100,000 words of 'model writing assistance'.
SSH is crucial for succcess of programmes. These guidelines provide useful tools for those who deal - in one way or another - with research funding programmes.
Saying it wants to "again become a place where talent feels valued and nurtured," Ghent University overhauls its system for faculty evaluation to de-emphasize quantitative metrics and annual progress reports. Professors will be asked about their goals and what they are proud of.
Publicly funded research brings social and economic benefits for all. It's critical that the global academic community continues to champion this work, says Ian Jacobs
I write to provide feedback in an individual capacity on the Plan S implementation guidelines.
Scientists with first-hand experience of rejection offer their advice.
The EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships selection process undergoes analysis.
Elsevier's role in the EU's Open Science Monitor is examined more closely.
Concern for and interest in research integrity has increased significantly during recent decades, both in academic and in policy discourse.
Does it matter that there's no record of the Plan S leader publishing in a peer-reviewed journal?
People often suffer from an 'illusion of knowledge,' write the authors of a new study that finds that people who hold the most extreme views about genetically modified foods know the least.
The Belgian biologist fears for the future of the pioneering UK Dementia Research Institute after Brexit
EU research chief Jean-Eric Paquet lays plans to refocus staff on policy goals, efficiency and cooperation with other parts of the Commission.
Wikipedia should be embraced by universities as an open-access source of information that can be the starting point for deeper research and learning, says John Lubbock.
