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How Some Men Are Challenging Gender Inequity in the Lab

How Some Men Are Challenging Gender Inequity in the Lab

Six male researchers describe their efforts to support their female colleagues.

Neurosexism: the Myth That Men and Women Have Different Brains

Neurosexism: the Myth That Men and Women Have Different Brains

The hunt for male and female distinctions inside the skull is a lesson in bad research practice.

It's Not Only Better Salaries That Prevent Researchers from Newer Member States Returning Home

It's Not Only Better Salaries That Prevent Researchers from Newer Member States Returning Home

Although researchers do leave newer member states to pursue their career goals, especially in the early stages of their career, they almost always never want to return to their home countries.

Counting is Not Enough - How Plain Language Statements Could Improve Research Assessment

Counting is Not Enough - How Plain Language Statements Could Improve Research Assessment

Academic hiring and promotion committees and funding bodies often use publication lists as a shortcut to assessing the quality of applications. In order to avoid bias towards prestigious titles, plain language statements should become a standard feature of academic assessment.

Become an Ask for Evidence Ambassador

Become an Ask for Evidence Ambassador

Ask for Evidence is a public campaign that holds powerful figures, companies, organisations and public bodies to account. It helps people challenge claims in news stories, adverts and policies and ask for the evidence behind them. It’s making sure a discussion on the evidence happens when it really matters. Becoming an ambassador is an opportunity to encourage others in your region to Ask for Evidence by giving talks, running activities and talking with community groups about issues that matter to them.  

Open Access and Plan S: How Wellcome is Tackling Four Key Concerns | Wellcome

Open Access and Plan S: How Wellcome is Tackling Four Key Concerns | Wellcome

There has been a fair amount of reactions to the changes being made to Wellcome's open access policy to ensure that no research is behind a paywall. This is how Wellcome are working to address them.

What Would Scholarly Publishing Look Like if We Rebuilt It from Scratch in 2019?

What Would Scholarly Publishing Look Like if We Rebuilt It from Scratch in 2019?

Invited talk by Jon Tennant delivered at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference.

Open Science Isn't Always Open to All Scientists

Open Science Isn't Always Open to All Scientists

Current efforts to make research more accessible and transparent can reinforce inequality within STEM professions.

Celebrating Women and Girls in Science

Celebrating Women and Girls in Science

February 11 was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This year, it was marked by a joint statement celebrating women’s achievements in science from Europe’s eight EIROforum laboratories.

Accurately Analysing Diversity in Research - Digital Science

Accurately Analysing Diversity in Research - Digital Science

  This article by Dr Hélène Draux, Research Data Scientist at Digital Science, and Dr Suze Kundu, Head of Public Engagement at Digital Science takes note of 11th February, the annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

OPERAS Declaration on the Plan S Implementation Guidance

OPERAS Declaration on the Plan S Implementation Guidance

OPERAS, the European research infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in the Social Sciences and Humanities, provides its recommendations to the guidance document on the implementation of Plan S.

FOSTER/OpenAIRE Moderated Course on Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020

FOSTER/OpenAIRE Moderated Course on Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020

Are you participating in a H2020 funded project? Would you like to know more on how to comply with the H2020 Open Access mandate? Join in this moderated FOSTER/OpenAIRE Course on Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020.

ORCID Survey

ORCID Survey

To help us better understand and meet the needs of our current and future users, we invite you to complete this survey of what you know about ORCID, whether - and if so, how - you currently use ORCID and your experiences of doing so, what’s working and what isn’t, and more.

OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance

OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance

As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the of the OA journal output in the DOAJ*, OASPA is of course very supportive of the intentions of Plan S, as we commented previously at the beginning of October.

Q&A Adam Russell: The Search for Automated Tools to Rate Research Reproducibility

Q&A Adam Russell: The Search for Automated Tools to Rate Research Reproducibility

A US project is exploring the use of software to assign confidence levels to published research.