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This dataset contains projects funded by the EU under the H2020. Grant information is provided for each project, including reference, acronym, objective, title, total cost, EC contribution, start date, end date, duration, Call Id, Topic, Funding Scheme, legal basis.
Writing and reviewing journal articles is part of the core business of a scientist. But it’s not an efficient way to communicate research results.
Every cutting-edge science by definition has to be DIY. The super-resolution microscopes for which this year’s Nobel was awarded couldn’t be bought in a store: Betzig, Hell, Moerner and colleagues had to build them themselves.
Consumer-oriented websites allow researchers to compare the merits of scientific journals and review their publishing experiences..
"Open Humans" project backed by Knight and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites individuals to share their most personal health information to accelerate medical breakthroughs.
Biomedical researchers look to post-publication peer review to build grant funding case.
ThinkLab is a platform that aims to facilitate and reward a 'massively collaborative', open, online model of research.
The Hague Declaration aims to foster agreement about how to best enable access to facts, data and ideas for knowledge discovery in the Digital Age. Following a period of public comment, our global experts are now preparing the final version of the text.
Data.gov now enables the public to open data directly with apps like Plotly and CartoDB for robust visualization and analysis. New tools are making it easier to visualize and analyze data at the click of a button.
How scientists can use Twitter to expand their social contacts and find jobs.
FundRef provides a standard way to report funding sources for published scholarly research.
If you can read this sentence, you can talk with a scientist. Well, maybe not about the details of her research, but at least you would share a common language.
The website is called The Scientific 23 because each interviewee was asked 23 questions.
The history of the 21st century will be the story of non-hierarchical systems of human organization enabled by the Internet.
We need to assess who gets funded based on research merit, not journal label.
Leonid Schneider argues for a new way to ensure accountability for publicly funded research. It has become clear that scientific dishonesty is rarely sanctioned.
On the importance of being able to establish and maintain successful collaborations.
Michael Eisen co-founded the Public Library of Science, publisher of open access journals including PLOS ONE.
Data-Level Metrics (DLMs): NSF-funded project which will pilot a suite of metrics to track and measure data use that can be shared with funders, tenure & promotion committees, and other stakeholders.
Some ideas on the re-ranking of universities.
A guide to the popular, free statistics and visualization software that gives scientists control of their own data analysis.
Four conditions that need to be satisfied for a document to be considered a citable piece of scientific work.
Holiday discussion about the future of science and how it might one day be funded.
Scientific publishers must shake off three centuries of publishing on paper and embrace 21st century technology to make scientific communication more intelligible, reproducible, engaging and rapidly available.
100 top ranked specialties in the sciences and social sciences
First comprehensive study of patterns of text reuse within the full texts of an important large scientific corpus, covering a 20-y timeframe.
This article describes a systematic analysis of the relationship between empirical data and theoretical conclusions for a set of experimental psychology articles published in the journal Science between 2005-2012.
It is unclear whether or how the career preferences of women and underrepresented minority scientists change in manners distinct from their better-represented peers.
