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Turn Children on to Science Through Reading
Books have the power to trigger a lifelong urge to know more about the world and its environs.
Accelerating Translational Research through Open Science
Seeking to accelerate research advances and reimagine its role in the community, the Montreal Neurological Institute (Neuro) announced in the spring of 2016 that it is launching a five-year experiment during which it will adopt Open Science—open data, open materials, and no patenting—across the institution.
Swiss Army Knives of Scholarly Communication
A few slides comparing ResearchGate, Academia, Mendeley and others.
The licensing of bioRxiv preprints
PeerJ offers the better technology and user experience than bioRxiv, but bioRxiv has greater adoption in the biodata sciences.
Over 600 Springer Nature Journals Commit to New Data Sharing Policies
More than 600 journals across Nature Research, Springer, BioMed Central and Palgrave Macmillan have committed to encouraging good practice in the sharing and archiving and citation of research data by adopting new Springer Nature research data policies.
New Study on Next Generation of Researchers Begins
Today, the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the NAS announced the formation of a 16-person committee to work on the Next Generation of Researchers study. This study was commissioned by the U.S. Congress in the fiscal 2016 omnibus appropriations package that passed in December 2015.
Researchers Baffled by Nationalist Surge
Economic woes wrought by globalization are only part of the cause.
Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability, a Timeline
It’s not a new story, although “the reproducibility crisis” may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in the late 1950s. A timeline.
Digital Science Releases GRID Under CC0 License
GRID’s comprehensive database of over 66,000 global research organizations now available under a CC0 license, allowing users to make full use of the database releases with no need for attribution.
Methodologies for Identification and Assessment of Interdisciplinary Research
Methodologies for Identification and Assessment of Interdisciplinary Research
Choice of data, methodology and indicators can produce seriously inconsistent results despite a common set of disciplines and countries.
QOAM.eu - Quality Open Access Market
A market place for scientific and scholarly journals which publish articles in open access. Quality scoring of the journals in QOAM is based on academic crowd sourcing; price information includes institutional licensed pricing.
Breakthrough Awards $25m to Researchers at 'Oscars of Science'
Huda Zoghbi, Stephen Elledge, Jean Bourgain, Joe Polchinski and other researchers in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics share awards from prize founders Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin.
Time to Overhaul the Secretive Peer Review Process
Two features of peer review subvert the goals of science: reviews are kept secret and reviewers are usually anonymous, argues Jeffrey S. Flier.
Public voting open
Earlier this year, we announced that six teams had made it through to the final of the Open Science Prize. We’re asking you to help us choose the three most impactful and novel prototypes from among the six finalists.
Vote now for the Open Science Prize
Vote now for he Open Science Prize, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the US NIH and the HHMI to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit.
Dare to Share?
Dare to Share?
From clarity to confusion, Rebecca Pool looks at the highs and lows of data sharing in scholarly publishing
Preparing for Preprints
Preprints are one step towards an Open Science future.
Preventing the Ends from Justifying the Means
Preventing the Ends from Justifying the Means
Withholding results to address publication bias in peer-review
Tool to Access Bibliometrics for Papers Associated with a Portfolio
iCite allows users ti upload the PubMed IDs of articles of interest, optionally grouping them for comparison. It then displays the number of articles, articles per year, citations per year, and Relative Citation Ratio, a field-normalized metric that shows the citation impact of one or more articles relative to the average NIH-funded paper.
The real plague affecting science research? It isn't fraud
Science fraud draws attention, but most scientists think it’s a far lesser threat to their field than the many times researchers cut corners.
New Trends in Open Access Publications
The quality of scientific publications will benefit from a revolution in the peer review models.
How to Keep Up with the Scientific Literature
Are you having trouble staying on top of the ever-growing body of scientific knowledge? Science Careers asked a few scientists to discuss how they keep up with the literature.
Post-publication Criticism is Crucial, but Should be Constructive
In an era of online discussion, debate must remain nuanced and courteous.