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Progressing Towards Transparency - More Journals Join Wiley's Transparent Peer Review Pilot
Progressing Towards Transparency - More Journals Join Wiley's Transparent Peer Review Pilot
Wiley claim they are committed to moving towards greater openness and reproducibility of research, including increasing transparency in peer review
Wellcome Open Research: Summary of Year 2
Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome and Michael Markie, Publishing Director, F1000 highlight Wellcome Open Research's achievements after two years of publishing.
Website Offers 'complete PhD Service' for £36K
Seemingly owned by an Oxbridge Essays shareholder, company offers up to 100,000 words of 'model writing assistance'.
The Data Opportunities for Publishers in 2019 - Silverchair
How has the open data movement matured over 2018 and what opportunities does it create for publishers in 2019?
Scientific Societies Worry Plan S Will Make Them Shutter Journals, Slash Services
An existential threat. That's what scientific societies supported by journal subscriptions call Plan S.
What BioRxiv's First 30,000 Preprints Reveal About Biologists
More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics.
Tenure Denial, and How Early-career Researchers Can Survive It
Scientists with first-hand experience of rejection offer their advice.
My Draft Plan S Implementation Guidance Feedback
I write to provide feedback in an individual capacity on the Plan S implementation guidelines.
People with Extreme Anti-science Views Know the Least, but Think They Know the Most
People with Extreme Anti-science Views Know the Least, but Think They Know the Most
People often suffer from an 'illusion of knowledge,' write the authors of a new study that finds that people who hold the most extreme views about genetically modified foods know the least.
New Research on Graduate Student Mental Well-being Says Departments Have Important Roles to Play in Fostering Healthy Environments
Addressing Integrity Challenges in Research: the Institutional Dimension
Concern for and interest in research integrity has increased significantly during recent decades, both in academic and in policy discourse.
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
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
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
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.
Fundamentals of Data Visualization
A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.
Payouts Push Professors Towards Predatory Journals
If South Africa truly wants to encourage good research, it must stop paying academics by the paper.
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.
Nature Beats Nurture when It Comes to Causing Diseases
Scientists dive into trove of insurance claims data to determine what causes most diseases.
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 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."
What's New with Peer Review on ORCID
ORCID has provided peer review functionality for going on three years. Peer review recognition is part of our broader commitment to improve recognition for all research contributions. It’s something that reviewers feel strongly about too.
Groundbreaking Deal Makes Large Number of German Studies Free to Public
Groundbreaking Deal Makes Large Number of German Studies Free to Public
New contract gives researchers access to Wiley's journals and makes their papers open access
One Couple's Tireless Crusade to Stop a Genetic Killer
When Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare disease, she and her husband, Eric Minikel, set out to find a cure.
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
Scientists who have historically been at a disadvantage when pursuing traditional funding sources are now the most successful at sourcing money from the public.
Amplifying the Voices of Women in Medicine
The field has plenty of talented women, but to reach leadership roles they must have visible and recognizable roles within medicine and in the public