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Learning Networking by Reproducing Research Results
Students taking Stanford’s Advanced Topics in Networking class have to select a networking research paper and reproduce a result from it as part of a three-week pair project.
Open Letter Defends ETH Professors
Some of the colleagues of a professor couple facing bullying allegations at the ETH Zurich have written an open letter of support.
It’s Time to Do Something About Predatory Publishers
Sure, it’s happened to all of us — the invitation to be keynote speaker at a conference you’ve never heard of or an invitation to sit on an editorial board for a journal with a name you don’t recognize.
How Wikimedia Helped Authors Make over 3000 Articles Green Open Access
Michele Marchetto of Wikimedia Italia shares the story of how they helped authors to make their open access articles more widely available.
How Does Blogging Work as a Teaching Concept?
The opportunities and experiences of blogging as part of teaching.
You Can Download Hawking's PhD For Free, but It Took 50 Years To Make It Happen
On the slow but steady rise of Open Access.
Key Legislator Tells Trump Officials to Back off on Proposed Overhead Spending Cap for NIH
The Unexpected Reason Researchers Choose Open Access
Open-access publishing held to the same standards as paid subscription journals.
European Open Science Cloud
The Commission made the Declaration of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) available to all scientific stakeholders, for their endorsement and commitments to the realisation by 2020.
PREreview, A New Resource for the Collaborative Review of Preprints
Reviewing preprints provides feedback to the authors and helps involve more scientists in peer review.
Trashing Science in Government Grants Isn’t Normal
The Case of the EPA, John Konkus, and Climate Change.
Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research
Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research
Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.
Building a Culture of Data Sharing: Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research
Building a Culture of Data Sharing: Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research
Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within seven development research projects.
Share Your Data
An analysis of a collection of open-access datasets quantifies their benefit to the scientific community.
Alibaba Is Plowing $15 Billion into R&D with 7 New Research Labs
Alibaba wants to compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. The advisory board includes Harvard's geneticist George Church and others.
Collaboration and Concerted Action Are Key to Making Open Data a Reality
Collaboration and Concerted Action Are Key to Making Open Data a Reality
How to make widespread open data a reality.
Big Science in a Small Country
Switzerland's unique geography and economy put it at the centre of the world when it comes to scientific collaboration.
Swiss University Dissolves Astronomy Institute after Misconduct Allegations
Swiss University Dissolves Astronomy Institute after Misconduct Allegations
ETH Zurich in Switzerland launched an investigation into allegations that a leading professor mistreated graduate students for more than a decade.
Scholia: Wikidata Scholarly Profile
Scholarly profile pages constructed from queries to information in Wikidata.
How Science Transformed the World in 100 Years
We need to be more concerned than ever about how society uses scientific discoveries, says Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society UK.
‘Health Valley’ Gets even Healthier
ADC Therapeutics, a Swiss start-up that specialises in cutting-edge cancer drugs, has raised almost CHF200 million ($200 million) in private funds.
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