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Navigating the various requirements can be difficult and time consuming for authors. Every funding agency seems to have slightly different specifics to their OA policies and each paper has multiple authors with multiple funding agencies supporting their research.
An awesome list of (large-scale) public datasets on the Internet. (On-going collection)
Published chart integrates data from outside scientists.
Open access isn't just some "free culture" refrain. It really matters and can save lives.
The Web was invented to enable scientists to collaborate.
Nature readers favour creating more secure jobs to fix science’s broken postdoctoral system.
Nature Biotechnology asks peer reviewers to check accessibility of code used in computational studies.
The $3-million state initiative will coordinate with a national effort to promote individualized patient treatment.
An average academic journal article is read in its entirety by about 10 people. To shape policy, professors should start penning commentaries in popular media.
The internet has radically changed most forms of communication, government and business – why not science and research funding too?
How the Max-Planck Society (MPS) wants to improve the condition of PhDs. Interview with Martin Stratmann, President of the MPS.
US science and engineering professors preferred female job candidates by two to one.
How do reviewer recommendations influence editor decisions? And are Chinese authors treated fairly?
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Olivier Voinnet, a researcher at ETH in Zurich is retracting a 2004 paper in The Plant Cell, according to the journal's publisher.
Robert Weinberg, a prominent cancer scientist whose papers often notch hundreds or thousands of citations, has lost a fourth paper, this time a 2009 publication in Cell.
There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. But change could be on the way.
The Cell paper has been cited 150 times, according to Web of Science, while the Nature paper has been cited 40. The Nature paper has not yet been retracted.
Institutional public access plans for Open Science.
ORCID has been awarded an 18-month, $3 million grant by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to develop the infrastructure and capacity to support international adoption and technical integration of ORCID identifiers.
For half a century, the government funded research. Times are changing.
Biological data will continue to pile up unless those who analyse it are recognized as creative collaborators in need of career paths, says Jeffrey Chang.
Tech firms can banish sexism without sacrificing the culture that made them successful.
In recent years science has entered a crisis of trust. The results of many scientific experiments appear to be surprisingly hard to reproduce, while mistakes have highlighted flaws in the peer review system.
There are no valid arguments to support the recent trend toward seven-figure salaries for high-ranking university administrators.
