German Scientists Regain Access to Elsevier Journals
Publisher restores access as negotiations for a nationwide licence continue.
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This Billionaire's Cancer Moonshot Is Falling Far Short of the Hype
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a biotech billionaire, launched a 'moonshot' to vanquish cancer. But an investigation found the hype far outruns the progress.
AAAS and Gates Foundation Partnership Announcement
To advance scientific communication and open access publishing. The partnership will also ensure open access to research funded by the Gates Foundation and published in the Science family of journals.
The White House Open Data Page Just Got Trumped
Trump Administration removed all open data (9GB) from the White House.
Academics on Twitter Are Taking on the Trump Administration With Satire
Satirical academic social media accounts go serious to protest Donald Trump.
I’m a Scientist. This is What I’ll Fight For.
A battle for the future, basic decency, and the people we love.
University Incubators May Lead to Lower-Quality Innovation
The establishment of university-affiliated incubators is often followed by a reduction in the quality of university innovations.
Heavyweight Funders Back Central Site for Life-Sciences Preprints
Coalition of scientists and research agencies argue for a one-stop shop server.
Equality in Science: A Mission Still Not Accomplished
In the 1960s three African-American women helped put astronauts into orbit. Hidden Figures tells their story, but women in science are still battling inequality.
Why Apprenticeships Are Science's Future
Practical experience and no student debt make vocational training an enticing career option
Preprints: We're Supporting Calls for a Central Service
We now allow researchers to cite preprints in their grant applications.
Gold, Green, and Black Open Access
The debate about open access has until now focused on the gold (journals) versus the green route (manuscript self‐archival).
Ambra, the PLOS Journal Publishing Platform, is Open Again
Ambra is an innovative Open Source platform for publishing Open Access research articles. It provides features for post-publication discussion and versioned articles that allows for a “living” document around which further scientific discoveries can be made. The platform is in active development by PLOS (Public Library of Science) and is licensed under the MIT License.
NIH Supports International Effort to Create a Central Service
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is working with an international group of research funders to explore the value and feasibility of establishing a Central Service for preprints. This is a unique opportunity to encourage sharing of preprints in the life sciences and to support the development of a core infrastructure to ensure the benefits of pre-printing are fully realized.
Debate Erupts Over Plan to Create Another Online Destination
Though no money is committed yet, major science funders back idea of an aggregator of preprints
110 Million for New Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Projects
The Research Council of Norway is awarding funding to six new projects under the new Centre for Digital Life Norway, which will bring the total number of projects associated with the centre to 12.
How Wikipedia Is Cultivating an Army of Fact Checkers to Battle Fake News
The online encyclopedia has been fact checking the Internet for more than 15 years. Now it wants to bring its skeptical eye to the masses.
Dutch Open Science Plan
A plan setting out what the Dutch are already doing and what they plan to do to grasp the opportunities and at the same time make science even more accessible to others.
The Future of Scholarly Publishing
If we were to have to invent the scholarly publishing system again from scratch today, what would it look like?
I’m a Scientist. This is What I’ll Fight For.
The War on Science is more than a skirmish over funding, censorship, and “alternative facts”. It’s a battle for the future, basic decency, and the people we love.
Why We Should Worry Less About Predatory Publishers and More About the Quality of Research and Training at Our Academic Institutions
Why We Should Worry Less About Predatory Publishers and More About the Quality of Research and Training at Our Academic Institutions
While we need to alert researchers to the presence of predatory journals, we should mostly put our efforts into transforming the academic research environment and reward systems, raising standards and developing true collegiality both within and between institutions.
The Importance of Being REF-Able: Academic Writing Under Pressure from a Culture of Counting
The Importance of Being REF-Able: Academic Writing Under Pressure from a Culture of Counting
Research on academics’ writing practices has revealed tensions around the ways in which managerial practices interact with academics’ individual career goals, disciplinary values and sense of scholarly identity.
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