Young scientists need to fight for their employment rights
Like junior doctors, early career biomedical researchers have an issue with contracts (or lack of them). So why don’t we strike too?
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Yes, I think academic publishers are greedy
Another day, another puff-piece from academic publishers about how awesome they are. This time, the Publisher’s Association somehow suckered the Guardian into giving them a credible-looking p…
Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You
CVs of failure in academia do not tell the whole story
Being open about failure is one thing, but we must also look at how we define success, says Shahidha Bari
Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of Book Publishing
How might Web technology change the publishing industry? Ask the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Google launches Science Journal to turn your phone into a research lab
Google believes there's a scientist in all of us, so it's launching a new app that turns your phone into a powerful little research lab.
Academic Publishing: Toward a New Model
To make research more accessible, separate the review and dissemination processes.
Preprints for the life sciences
Piece reflecting the opinions of researchers, funders, and journals.
Embrace preprints and set biomedical information free
Preprints uploaded to a public server without formal review can speed up the sharing of biomedical information without harming the scientific process.
Employment crisis for new Ph.D.s is an illusion
NSF surveys generate what seem to be conflicting data on the status of those entering the scientific job market
Plan to make programming mandatory at schools a step to foster creativity
It is essential that computer programming to be taught in schools will lead to improving children’s ability to think logically and creatively.
Elsevier denies it will force SSRN users on to other services
Purchase of research repository has horrified open access advocates who fear acquisition marks attempt to maintain control over publishing
Open medicine
Governments need to tighten regulation if the sharing of clinical-trial data is to succeed.
Mozilla Science Global Sprint 2016
A two-day sprint event bringing together researchers, coders, librarians and the public from around the globe.
Where do DOI clicks come from?
As part of our Event Data work we’ve been investigating where DOI resolutions come from.
Financial incentives could well make teaching sexy again
Has teaching been the poor cousin of research for too long?
Scientific sceptics hit back after rebuke
A science writer challenges the sceptics community to move beyond tackling just ‘easy’ issues.
Twelve principles for open innovation 2.0
Evolve governance structures, practices and metrics to accelerate innovation in an era of digital connectivity, writes Martin Curley.
Research groups going to war again over small business funding
Academic and entrepreneurial communities battle over bills to boost the research set-aside for SBIR
What Elsevier’s purchase of SSRN also means
SSRN’s data actually represents the world of social science scholarship reasonably well.
SSRN has been captured by the enemy of open knowledge
Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.
Social-sciences preprint server snapped up by publishing giant Elsevier
The Social Science Research Network says that it will continue to offer free submissions and downloads under its new owner.
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