A 21st Century Solution to the Serials Crisis
How centralization of journals led to the serials crisis and why democratizing digital journal publishing using services is the key to fixing it.
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Transferring Skills Beyond the Lab
Leaving research doesn’t mean that the skills you developed will be wasted.
Let’s Stand Together to Promote It Worldwide
Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student, currently faces up to eight years in prison for doing something thousands of researchers do every day: posting research results online for those who would not otherwise have a way to access them.
Science Covered in the News Is More Likely to Be Overturned
It often feels as though today’s health headlines are some scientific version of Mad Libs. And now there’s a study that provides evidence for that hunch.
Should AI Be Used in Science Publishing?
New technologies could make the scientific review process more objective and accurate — but some worry about the risks of letting computers determine what gets published.
Dokieli: Decentralised Article Publishing
A clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.
Communications Expert Advises How Science Should Respond to Fake News
The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics recently, but fake news is not at all new in the world of science.
Do Scientists Lose Credibility When They Become Political?
A new study suggests that, contrary to common fears, the answer is no.
The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review
The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review
The Edward Snowden of peer review.
Activists Push Psychology Journals Towards Open Data
Activists Push Psychology Journals Towards Open Data
Editor asked to resign from journal for saying he’ll review only papers whose data he can see.
Earth 2050
If you are a futurist or make predictions, send them to us, and the whole world will see them.
Illegal File Hosting Site, ResearchGate, Acquires Massive Financial Investment
Illegal File Hosting Site, ResearchGate, Acquires Massive Financial Investment
Financing massive-scale copyright infringement.
Horizon 2020 Rules Changed to Tackle Pay Gap
The European Commission has changed the Horizon 2020 model grant agreement, to try to address complaints about low salary levels among the newer 13 member states.
A Principled Method for Panel Assessment
How to take into account differences in standards, confidence and bias in assessment panels.
A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story
A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story
In 2016, Joel Pitt and Prof. Helene Hill published an intriguing paper with us looking at the prevalence of scientific fraud in preclinical research...
How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs
How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs
Why journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.
ResearchGate Raises $52.6M for Its Social Research Network for Scientists
As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals.
UK Scientists Welcome Changes to Controversial Research Reforms
Amendments aim to protect autonomy and the independence of research funders from political interference.
Open Science Prize Goes to Software Tool for Tracking Viral Outbreaks
A tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Basel to track Zika, Ebola and other viral disease outbreaks in real time.
The Journal of Open Source Software
A free, open-access journal designed to publish brief papers about research software.
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Researchers must seek out others’ deposited biological sequences in community databases, urges Franziska Denk.
Goldman Sachs and Bill Gates Quietly Invested $52 Million in a Social Network for Scientists
Goldman Sachs and Bill Gates Quietly Invested $52 Million in a Social Network for Scientists
Goldman Sachs, the Wellcome Trust, and Bill Gates all put money into the Berlin company, which has over 12 million scientists on its platform.
WHO Publishes List of Bacteria for which New Antibiotics Are Urgently Needed
WHO Publishes List of Bacteria for which New Antibiotics Are Urgently Needed
WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens"—a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
Does Engagement in Advocacy Hurt the Credibility of Scientists?
It is often assumed that issue advocacy will compromise the credibility of scientists.
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