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Data Carpentry: workshops to increase data literacy for researchers

Data Carpentry: workshops to increase data literacy for researchers

Data Carpentry workshops teach skills to researchers to enable them to retrieve, view, manipulate, analyze and store their and other’s data in an open and reproducible way in order to extract knowledge from data.

Nikola Tesla on gender equality and how technology will unleash women's true potential

Nikola Tesla on gender equality and how technology will unleash women's true potential

One of Tesla’s predictions peers into the future of society’s changing gender roles and considers how the advent of wireless technology would empower women, liberating us to develop our full intellectual potential repressed by the patriarchy for centuries.

The ReScience Journal

The ReScience Journal

ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research, promoting new and open-source implementations in order to ensure that the original research is reproducible.

JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator

JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator

Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!

What is the one fact humanity needs to know?

What is the one fact humanity needs to know?

“If civilisation was destroyed, what scientific information would you pass on to the survivors?”

How many scientists does it take to write a paper?

How many scientists does it take to write a paper?

Modern science is becoming larger-scale and more collaborative.

Tips for promoting your research paper

Tips for promoting your research paper

Alert your followers on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social networking sites by announcing your published work along with a link to your article. To encourage sharing - use hashtags relevant to your subject and tag co-authors or department colleagues who may also want to share your paper. Looking for more ideas?

Futsci: Future Science

Futsci: Future Science

Crowdfunding for Life Science Research. FutSci is an arena for public engagement in Biomedical and Bioscience Research, enabling members of the public to directly fund research.

Visualizing research impact

Visualizing research impact

A visualization of 6,975 case studies capturing the work of 50,000 researchers working in 154 institutions and grouped into 36 disciplinary units of assessment.

Towards scientific foresight in the European Parliament

Towards scientific foresight in the European Parliament

Video presenting the new approach of Scientific Foresight in the European Parliament, for anticipating impacts of future techno-scientific trends.

The “Voinnet Case”

The “Voinnet Case”

Aside from one retraction, eight articles of ETH Zürich plant biologist Olivier Voinnet have been corrected by the journals so far. Large parts of the scientific community, however, are not exactly satisfied with them.

How to track the impact of research data with metrics

How to track the impact of research data with metrics

An overview of the key impact measurement concepts and the services and tools available for measuring impact.