107 Cancer Papers Retracted Due to Peer Review Fraud
New papers were found through investigations into previous fraud.
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Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.
Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.
Patients in red states and blue states alike benefit from work funded by the National Institutes of Health
Donald Trump Shouldn’t Appoint a Science Adviser. He Doesn’t Deserve One, and It Won’t Help.
Donald Trump Shouldn’t Appoint a Science Adviser. He Doesn’t Deserve One, and It Won’t Help.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has been headless since Donald Trump moved into the White House.
Open Research,Open Engineering, and the Role of the University in Society
Open Research,Open Engineering, and the Role of the University in Society
Thoughts and reflections on the role that open research can play in defining the purpose and activities of the university.
McGill Institute Takes Open Science to a New Level
All research findings at the Montreal Neurological Institute are being shared publicly to accelerate scientific discovery.
SHERPA RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving
SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving.
It Takes a Village: One Year of Journals Requiring ORCID iDs
Getting researcher buy-in to new tools and systems can be challenging - even when those tools are intended to help free them of administrative burden.
Anticipated Effects of an Open Access Policy at a Private Foundation
Evaluating the impact of the Moore Foundation Open Access new policy.
What All Those Scientists on Twitter Are Really Doing
Analysis reveals that female researchers are over-represented on the social-media site and that mathematicians and life scientists are less likely to use it.
A World Without Science — Part 1: Infectious Diseases
Advances in science and public health policy have saved over 107 million lives in 25 years.
Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things. It Won’t.
Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things. It Won’t.
Scientists need to learn how to communicate science strategically.
Want to Fix Science’s Replication Crisis? Then Replicate
Researchers should spend more trying to reproduce other scientists' results.
We Need a GitHub for Academic Research
The academic paper has some inherent limitations—chief among them, that it can provide only a summary of a given research project.
A Story About Science Together
The unconference about tools and rules in collaborative research.
Moore Foundation Rolls out New Open Access Policy
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently announced a new Open Access Policy that will help to maximize the impact of research.
Nature Index Country Collaboration
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.
Why Open Source Pharma Is the Path to Both Cheaper and New Medicines
Breaking the cycle in which only highly profitable drugs reach the market is not just the responsibility of government.
The Stars Are Aligning
An overview of recent events and the current state of preprints in the scholarly communications landscape.
Five Hacks for Digital Democracy
Beth Simone Noveck urges researchers to work out how technology can improve public institutions.
They Will Pay as Much Attention to Us as We Do to Ants
Jürgen Schmidhuber says artificial intelligence will surpass humans’ in 2050, enabling robots to have fun, fall in love – and colonise the galaxy.
The Growing Case for Geoengineering
As climate change accelerates, a handful of scientists are eager to move ahead with experiments testing ways to counteract warming artificially.
Open Knowledge Maps
Open Knowledge Maps is a visualization tool for researchers that allows them to view groupings of manuscripts that share common words when searching for a new research topic
The Evolution of Scholarly Access and Sharing
A webinar on how to access and engage with content and the importance of open access to scholarly research communication.
Science Is Society's Best Insurance Policy
Squeezed budgets for basic research will make it harder to respond to disease outbreaks and other global threats, say Arturo Casadevall & Ferric Fang.
Why Scientists Must Share Their Failures
Opinion piece by Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of ResearchGate, the professional network that connects the world of science and opens research up to all.
Automation Will Force Governments to Introduce Universal Basic Income
Automation Will Force Governments to Introduce Universal Basic Income
Elon Musk believes artificial intelligence that is much smarter than the smartest human on Earth could result in dangerous situations. He argues that the government must introduce a universal basic income program in order to compensate for automation.
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