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A report produced by Digital Science, together with an international collaboration of leading higher education professionals and policy experts who give their views on the global impact agenda in research policy and discuss what evidence of impact is useful to them.
Notices should make obvious whether a withdrawal of research is the result of misconduct or a genuine mistake, says Daniele Fanelli.
China has released its first national standards governing the treatment of laboratory animals, and scientists hope the guidelines will improve both conditions for animals and China’s prospects for international research collaborations.
While we may be drawn to the fantasy of Robin Hood, it is easy to see the danger of putting one individual’s idea of right and wrong ahead of society’s democratically enforced laws.
Other scientists also say the need to get a permit for applied ‘dual-use’ research may constrain academic freedom.
Scale can be achieved by broadly outsourcing the editorial process. Does this lead to a loss in quality control, and is this acceptable?
The number of researchers doubles every ten to fifteen years. In his manuscript, Gottfried Schatz highlights the problems which growth creates for science. He explains the difference between knowledge and science and the reason why less knowledge and more science should be taught in our kindergartens, schools and universities.
Authors and subscribers will be able to share content from over 2,700 journals and 300,000 new articles per annum with researchers across widely accessible platforms
Over the last week, there's been a storm over the executive compensation and financials at the Public Library of Science (PLOS).
Apple announced today the launch of CareKit, a new open source software platform that allows people to develop their own health care apps.
Putting Science 2.0 and Open Science into practice
The scientist who helped develop the neural networks behind Google's AlphaGo, which beat grandmaster Lee Sedol, on the past, present and future of AI
Scientific data might be filled with important things waiting to be discovered.
Fields Medal-winning Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers and a team of colleagues have recently launched a new editor-owned Open Access (OA) journal for mathematics.
High level European policy meeting on funding research data to support open innovation, 6 April 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Once again, reproducibility is in the news. Most recently we hear that irreproducibility is irreproducible and thus everything is actually fine...
Last week my friend Andy Kern (a population geneticist at Rutgers) went on a bit of a bender on Twitter prompted by his discovery of PLOS’s IRS Form 990 – the annual required financial filing of non-profit corporations in the United States.
Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change
A collection of 150 personal stories from scientists who are combining a career in research with their roles as parents and carers, each in their own way.
Female first authorship has increased since 1994 but plateaued from 2009 to 2014
Johns Hopkins and MedImmune team up to train scientists
Benefits and costs to the authors of posting preprints as a function of the time of posting.
