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Guidelines on How to Successfully Design, and Implement, Mission-oriented Research Programmes

Guidelines on How to Successfully Design, and Implement, Mission-oriented Research Programmes

SSH is crucial for succcess of programmes. These guidelines provide useful tools for those who deal - in one way or another - with research funding programmes.

Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand

Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand

 When the year began, the world's largest academic publisher, Elsevier, had increased their annual profits, with an operating profit approaching US$1.2 billion in science, technology, and medicine - a profit margin of over 36%. By year's end, a hefty chunk of the world's research community was walking away from big subscription deals with Elsevier and others. 

Why We Need a Public Infrastructure for Data on Open Access

Why We Need a Public Infrastructure for Data on Open Access

The necessity of developing a public infrastructure for open access, its benefits and the obstacles to reaching this goal.

Pay to Publish Open Access: On the DEAL-Wiley Agreement

Pay to Publish Open Access: On the DEAL-Wiley Agreement

Details of the contract between the German consortium DEAL and Wiley reveal that the transformative nature of this new big deal may come at a high cost. 

Women Who Win Prizes Get Less Money and Prestige

Women Who Win Prizes Get Less Money and Prestige

A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do.

How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change?

How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change?

Trees are supposed to slow global warming, but growing evidence suggests they might not always be climate saviours.

Glaciers Are Retreating. Millions Rely on Their Water.

Glaciers Are Retreating. Millions Rely on Their Water.

Glaciers are crucial sources of water for people and crops in Central Asia. But global warming is causing glaciers there and around the world to shrink every year.

Elsevier's High Profit Model Makes them Anti-Open

Elsevier's High Profit Model Makes them Anti-Open

Elsevier argues that they make their citation data available through their subscription database, Scopus, and that “[…] Elsevier cannot make such a large corpus of data, which it has added significant value to, available for free."

Patricia Falcone Talks About Women in Science on 'She Roars' Podcast

Patricia Falcone Talks About Women in Science on 'She Roars' Podcast

Leading scientist Patricia Falcone speaks with podcast host Margaret Koval about the importance of college mathematics, early research experience and clear communications.

Crowdfunding Research Flips Science's Traditional Reward Model

Crowdfunding Research Flips Science's Traditional Reward Model

Scientists who have historically been at a disadvantage when pursuing traditional funding sources are now the most successful at sourcing money from the public.

Well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing Information Flow in Science

Well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing Information Flow in Science

Information-aesthetic explorations of emerging patterns in scientific citation networks. A cooperation between the Eigenfactor® Project (data analysis) and Moritz Stefaner (visualization).

How to Shine in Indonesian Science? Game the System

How to Shine in Indonesian Science? Game the System

Indonesia researchers have inflated their Indonesia’s Science and Technology Index (SINTA) score by publishing large numbers of papers in low-quality journals, citing their own work excessively, or forming networks of scientists who cited each other.

Life in the Lab

Life in the Lab

  So, there I was, pipette in hand, doing actual labwork for the first time in a year. How had it come to this? When I started out, I was convinced I was not going to be one of those PIs who is never in the lab.

Large Scale Publisher Survey Reveals Global Trends in Open Access Publishing

Large Scale Publisher Survey Reveals Global Trends in Open Access Publishing

A survey of publishers with journals indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published.

DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos

DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos

The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.

What It's Like to Be a Woman in the Academy

What It's Like to Be a Woman in the Academy

We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.

When It Comes To Women In STEM Roles, The Results Are Golden

When It Comes To Women In STEM Roles, The Results Are Golden

Young women and girls look to Hollywood for inspiration and guidance, but how can we be sure movies and TV are positively representing women in STEM?