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Digital Science launches GRID
The Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) is a free, easy-to-use online database that opens up information about research organisations around the world to data scientists, developers and innovators within academic and commercial organisations.
What's so wrong with the Impact Factor?
Once a paper has its perceived value raised by being cited, it’s likely to get cited again.
Are more retractions due to more scrutiny?
The question has actually been addressed in the scientific literature and the data don’t seem to support this assumption.
Nobel laureates who were not always noble
Racists, frauds, and misogynists: meet the rogues’ gallery of Nobel Prize winners.
Altmetric for ORCID bookmarklet
This application let you see the Altmetric Score metrics of works on your browser when you click the bookmarklet in ORCID Record pages.
400+ tools and innovations in scholarly communication
This is a shared database that grew out of the "101 innovations in scholarly communication" project.
The Open Scholarship Initiative: the future of global scholarly publishing
A 10-year series of annual meetings where high-level stakeholder representatives work together to improve the future of how research information gets published, shared and accessed.
Socientize as e-infrastructure through technology, innovation and creativity
Citizen science is an innovative concept to involve the general public in scientific processes.
How PowerPoint is killing critical thought
The bullet 'pointization' of information is making us stupid and irresponsible.
Openness Initiative
An initiative to incentivise open research practices through peer review.
DOI Event Tracker
Crossref will be introducing a new service that tracks activity surrounding a research work from potentially any web source where an event is associated with a DOI.
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
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
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!
JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
The world's first peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed scientific video journal.
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?”
SciCombinator
Discover the most talked about and the latest scientific content, sorted by Altmetric scores and topics.
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
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?
What is Open Science?
What is Open Science?
For-profit company Elsevier explains Open Science.
Einstein was boring before he was brilliant
Innovation almost always requires long periods of quite traditional training.
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.
CORE - COnnecting REpositories
The mission of CORE is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.