Are replicability and reproducibility under-rated in science?
Special Issue on reproducibility in EuroScientist.
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Are publisher profits justifiable?
It’s widely recognised that the established scholarly publishers skim an awful lot of money off the top of research budgets.
Royal Society Open Science to tackle publication bias
[5]Royal Society Open Science aims to tackle the biases in traditional formats.
Work smart with Workspace, our new platform for writing papers
[8]F1000Workspace offers scientists a comprehensive suite of software and services to write and collaborate on papers, annotate and share references and articles, as well as easily discover and save relevant new articles.
The retirement debate
You're in your 60s. Should you stay in the lab, or make way for the next generation?
Final report on Science 2.0 public consultation
Science 2.0 is a new approach to science that uses information-sharing and collaboration made possible by network technologies. This consultation gathers the opinions of a broad sample of interested parties from across the EU research landscape.
Area-wide transition to open access is possible
The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs..
How one case brought a biology institute to its knees
The fall out from the STAP case is still being felt across Japan.
Sexist peer review elicits furious Twitter response
A peer reviewer's suggestion that two female researchers find "one or two male biologists" to co-author and help them strengthen a manuscript they had written and submitted to a journal has unleashed an avalanche of disbelief and disgust on Twitter today.
Is Crowdfunded Science Legit Science?
A crowdfunding campaign for a brain imaging study closed Monday after raising almost $80,000 toward a unique goal: the first functional magnetic resonance images of the brain on LSD.
P values are just the tip of the iceberg
Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scrutiny of every step, not merely the last one.
Want to get your research noticed by politicians?
There’s no doubt political parties listen to think tanks. Using them to present academic work could help researchers penetrate the Westminster bubble.
Disrupting the subscription journals' business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
Disrupting the subscription journals' business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access business model.
Future Directions for Scientific Advice in Europe
This collection brings together agenda-setting essays by policymakers, practitioners, scientists and scholars from across Europe.
Beyond Bar and Line Graphs
Beyond Bar and Line Graphs
Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm.
Why are Authors Citing Older Papers?
With so much new literature published each year, why are authors increasingly citing older papers?
Awesome public datasets
An awesome list of (large-scale) public datasets on the Internet. (On-going collection)
Scientists genetically modify human embryos
Rumours of germline modification prove true — and look set to reignite an ethical debate.
Parliament up in arms against raid on research funds
The European Parliament has thrown a spanner into the works of Juncker's plan to slash €2.7 billion from the EU's 2014 to 2020 research budget for a new investment fund to help ramp up Europe's economy.
Researchers welcome €5-billion funding boost
Germany's ruling political parties have agreed to plough €5 billion (US$5.4 billion) more into science from 2018 to 2028.
Societies push back against NIH reproducibility guidelines
'Premature' rules for preclinical research need more flexibility and greater community involvement, say scientific society leaders.
Head of science foundation leaves under a cloud
Head of science foundation leaves under a cloud
Miguel Seabra stepped down from the presidency of Portugal's science funding agency. Although Seabra invoked "personal reasons" for his decision, scientists note that he resigned amid mounting criticism of the agency's policies.
The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics
Use these ten principles to guide research evaluation, urge Diana Hicks, Paul Wouters and colleagues.
Is this the new European Union?
European Investment Bank and European Commission ridicule the European Parliament.
A new chapter in science
A new chapter in science
This transformation will be a huge undertaking for all those involved, and exactly what these new forms of publication will look like none of us yet knows.
The transformative nature of transparency in research funding
A survey of policies at major research funders found that there is room for more transparency in the process of grant review, which would strengthen the case for the efficiency of public spending on research.
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