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Big Names in Statistics Want to Shake up Much-Maligned P Value
One of scientists’ favourite statistics — the P value — should face tougher standards, say leading researchers.
7 Functionalities the Scholarly Literature Should Have
As a regular user of the scholarly literature since before the internet, I have closely followed its digitization. I find it rather frustrating that some of the most basic functionalities are still excluded.
The Plan to End Science’s Pernicious #Manel Problem
In the past few months, three high-profile science conferences have ignited internet ire for their lack of representation of women.
Research in the Age of Open Science
UK leads drive towards more open way of sharing science, says Jo Johnson
Scientists, Please Run for Office. The Planet Needs You.
The country desperately needs more egghead lawmakers. Right now, Capitol Hill has almost none.
A Surprising Amount of Medical Research Isn’t Made Public. That's Dangerous.
When the results of clinical trials aren’t made public, the consequences can be dangerous — and potentially deadly.
Fraud Scheme Uncovered in China
The Chinese government finds almost 500 researchers guilty of misconduct in relation to a recent spate of retractions from a cancer journal.
Why the Open Access Movement in Agriculture Matters
From fungal networks sharing information and resources connecting all living things to the open source paradigm: Agroecology needs Open Access.
Support from Swiss Funder
SNSF grant-holders may deposit their scientific data in any recognized digital archive (commercial or not) that meets the FAIR principles.
Budget Chief Wants to Protect Research from Cuts in 2021-2027 Budget Cycle
Günther Oettinger says research should be the only programme spared spending cuts as the EU weighs how to make up for losing the UK’s €11B per annum contribution.
How Better Training Can Help Fix the Research Reproducibility Crisis
Giving researchers the data skills they need to share, review, and validate each other’s work, writes Erin Becker.
Linking Academic Research With the Public and Policy-Makers
It’s time for a global movement that pushes academic research beyond journal paywalls so it makes a difference in the world.
ELife Joins Substance Consortium to Support Development of Open-Source Online Content-Editing Tools
ELife Joins Substance Consortium to Support Development of Open-Source Online Content-Editing Tools
By joining the consortium, eLife will support the introduction of innovative new tools to help expand the current online open scholarly infrastructure.
Scientific Integrity Must Be Defended, Our Planet Depends on It
To conserve Earth's remarkable species, we must also defend the importance of science and scientific integrity.
Peer Review Is a Black Box. Let's Open It Up
A new paper argues that journal publishers should become much more transparent about their peer review practices.
Don't Run Biomedical Science as a Business
Science should abandon its assembly-line mentality and rebuild for quality, not quantity, argues Michele Pagano.
Changing Publishing Ecologies
A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing.
The Tao of Open Science for Ecology
The field of ecology is poised to take advantage of emerging technologies that facilitate the gathering, analyzing, and sharing of data, methods, and results.
Wellcome’s New Policy on Sharing Research Data
What it means for researchers.
Understanding the Demand for Reproducible Research Articles
Life scientists told us whether they would like to share and read computationally reproducible research articles.
Ravens Are So Smart, One Hacked This Researcher's Experiment
Researchers had to remove the bird because they were worried it’d teach the others.
Promote Scientific Integrity via Journal Peer Review Data
Promote Scientific Integrity via Journal Peer Review Data
There is too little sound research on journal peer review.
Sci-Hub Provides Access to Nearly All Scholarly Literature
Sci-Hub's contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals and 77.0% of the 5.2 million articles published by inactive journals.
Text Mining of 15 Million Full-Text Scientific Articles
An analysis of 15 million English scientific full-text articles published during the period 1823-2016.