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Who May Swim in the Ocean of Knowledge?
Decolonising knowledge and democratising information is the great promise of our times. With universal access to knowledge, we can begin to achieve the potential of the Internet and provide a better world for future generations.
The Scientific Method - An Overview
Science is not a belief system. It is rather a defined process we can use to accurately answer questions and come to a better understanding of our natural world.
Europe's Influential Science-Policy Chief on His Successes and Disappointments
Robert-Jan Smits, the European Union’s departing director-general of research, sets out his parting thoughts. After eight years, he hands over his role as director-general of the European Commission’s research directorate to Jean-Eric Paquet, currently a deputy-secretary-general at the commission.
Scientific Publications in Switzerland, 2006-2015
With some 173,000 articles during the period 2011-2015, Switzerland produced 1% of worldwide publications. It is therefore in the top 20 countries of all sizes that publish the most scientific articles.
UK Scientists Brace for Disruption from Huge Academic Strike
Pension changes spur more than 40,000 university academics to walk out on research activities, conferences and lectures.
Why Are There Few Women in Tech? Watch a Recruiting Session
New Stanford research shows how companies alienate women before they start working.
High-Quality Science Requires High-Quality Open Data Infrastructure
FAIRsharing.org: a series of open data resources and tools, and an outlet for the developers and maintainers of these resources to emphasize the approach they take to ensure the data they host and serve are increasingly FAIR.
Guidance to Facilitate the Implementation of Targets to Promote Gender Equality in Research and Innovation
How to Write a First-Class Paper
Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers.
How to Make Scientists Into Better Peer Reviewers
From efforts to increase the transparency of the review process to initiatives offering training, there are many attempts underway to make better reviewers out of researchers.
Do Interdisciplinary Research Teams Deliver Higher Gains to Science?
Do Interdisciplinary Research Teams Deliver Higher Gains to Science?
The present paper takes its place in the stream of studies that analyze the effect of interdisciplinarity on the impact of research output. Unlike previous studies, in this study the...
The UCUStrikes: a Battle for the Future of Higher Education
What type of university system do we want? One with a casualised workforce and vice-chancellors who can claim they deserve exorbitant pay packages for running commercial organisations? Or one in wh…
Researchers Coy About Complete Review Transparency
Survey reveals reluctance to take open peer review to the limit.
20 Years Ago, Research Fraud Catalyzed the Anti-Vaccination Movement. Let’s Not Repeat History.
20 Years Ago, Research Fraud Catalyzed the Anti-Vaccination Movement. Let’s Not Repeat History.
How Andrew Wakefield’s shoddy science fueled autism-vaccine fears.
Read What You Are Looking For! ScienceOpen Integrates More Open Access Data
Read What You Are Looking For! ScienceOpen Integrates More Open Access Data
One of the biggest challenges for researchers is time. So when you find an abstract of interest and have just a moment to actually read, you need the full text right now. With our newest release, the ScienceOpen discovery environment incorporates open access data from Impactstory to provide researchers with more ways to read the …
DMTPTool.org: An Online Data Management Plan Tool
A free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans complying with funder requirements.
Merkel Makes a Surprise Pick for German Research Minister
Anja Karliczek is little known in science policy circles.
Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability
Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability
Data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal.
Statcheck - a Spellchecker for Statistics
A study has revealed a high prevalence of inconsistencies in reported statistical test results. Such inconsistencies make results unreliable, as they become “irreproducible”, and ultimately affect the level of trust in scientific reporting.
Open Philanthropy Project
The Open Philanthropy Project’s mission is to give as effectively as we can and share our findings openly so that anyone can build on our work. Through research and grantmaking, we hope to learn how to make philanthropy go especially far in terms of improving lives.
Canadian Science Wins Billions in New Budget
Canada's 2018 budget includes almost Can$4 billion (US$3.1 billion) in new funding for science over the next five years. This is in contrast to the Can$1 billion in new science funding contained in last year's budget - almost none of which went to basic research.
Why Scientists Love to Study Dogs (and Often Ignore Cats)
An inquiry into why research on the nature of dogs gets so much attention raises the question of whether there are actually more studies of dogs.
As a Saudi Woman Scientist, I'm Tired of Negative Stereotypes
I’ve encountered even more prejudice as a researcher from the Middle East than as a woman working in Saudi Arabia, says Malak Abedalthagafi.
"Publication Practice Has to Change"
Lutz Jäncke and Lawrence Rajendran talk about the crisis in the publication process and new solutions.
It's Time to Stand up to the Academic Publishing Industry: Here’s How
Academia is unique in that professionals with highly specialized expertise, who are paid by public institutions, write articles and provide peer reviews to corporations who profit greatly without giving back to the research enterprise.
SpringerNature Hurries 7 Billion Euro Frankfurt Listing
SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazine Nature, has brought forward a listing which may value it at more than 7 billion euros ($8.6 billion) including debt, to reduce the risk from volatile stock markets.