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Illuminating Dark Knowledge - Generation R
How innovation in search engines needs renewing with open working and open indexes.
Statistical Pitfalls of Personalized Medicine
Misleading terminology and arbitrary divisions stymie drug trials and can give false hope about the potential of tailoring drugs to individuals, warns Stephen Senn.
Does Science Have a Bullying Problem?
A spate of bullying allegations have rocked several high-profile science institutions. Here's how researchers, universities, funders and others are dealing with the issue.
Men and Women Use Their Time Differently, but Everyone Works Too Much
Male post-docs and PhD candidates work more than their female colleagues, but female professors work the most hours of all, according to the latest time use survey.
Open Research | Wellcome
We want the research we fund - like publications, data, software and materials - to be open and accessible, so it can have the greatest possible impact.
Announcing the Top 10 FAIR Data Things Global Sprint
A global sprint to develop 10 FAIR things resources for data in different disciplines.
Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda
Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda
The idea of the conference is to bring to the fore the impact contributions of social sciences and humanities (SSH) research to transformative national and European research and innovation agendas, as well as to openly reflect on and structurally discuss the topic. Due to the huge interest in the conference and limited seating, a live-streaming of the main sessions of the conference on both conference days is offered.
Open Letter in Support of Funder Open Publishing Mandates
The undersigned researchers believe that the world's scholarly literature is a public resource that only achieves its full value when it is freely available to all.
Beware the Rise of the Radical Right
Academic freedom is on the hit list when radical politicians gain office - as they have done in Europe.
First Law of Leadership: Be Human First, Scientist Second
Want to get the best research from your team? Take these six steps to invest in stronger relationships.
First Sun-dimming Experiment Will Test a Way to Cool Earth
Researchers plan to spray sunlight-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, an approach that could ultimately be used to quickly lower the planet's temperature.
A 100th Birthday Wish: Uphold Academic Freedom in Dark Times
The Haldane principle, born a century ago, has enabled government scientists to speak truth to power without fear of retribution.
How the Entire Scientific Community Can Confront Gender Bias in the Workplace
Evidence overwhelmingly shows structural barriers to women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, and suggests that the onus cannot be on women alone to confront the gender bias in our community. Here, I share my experience as a scientist and a woman who has collected data during more than ten years of scientific training about how best to navigate the academic maze of biases and barriers.
Release of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit
FOSTER Plus developed a set of ten free online courses covering key topics of Open Science. Each course takes about one hour to complete.
Google Scholar Citation Profiles: the good, the bad, and the better
OpenUP Policy Recommendations
OpenUP Hub is an open, dynamic and collaborative knowledge environment that systematically captures, organizes and categorizes research outcomes, best practices, tools and guidelines. Explore the given material about opening up the review-dissemination-assessment phases of the research lifecycle and practices to support the transition to a more open and gender sensitive research environment.
Reference Implementation for Open Scientometric Indicators
Within the project "Reference implementation for Open Scientometric Indicators" (ROSI), new assessments and visualizations of conventional and alternative metrics (altmetrics) will be developed and their effect on researchers will be investigated. For this purpose, a reference implementation based on the open source research information system VIVO will be developed in which various metrics are combined with data from different openly licensed sources. In order to develop the requirements of the target groups, surveys are going to be conducted to investigate the effect of scientometric indicators on scientist's and their expectations regarding those indicators. The objectives of the project are firstly to evaluate the scientometric needs and concerns of the target groups, and secondly to implement a usable reference implementation of a toolset that reflects the results of the study and that enables transparent, license-free, flexibly adaptable analysis of the output of researchers, contributors and organisations.
Career Barriers, Part 1: "I Can't"
When you look ahead on your career path, do you see nothing but open road to be traveled, or is there a big brick wall in your way that feels insurmountable?
OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2018
The OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2018 is the twelfth edition in a series that biennially reviews key trends in science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in OECD countries and a number of major partner economies.
Open Science in Africa
A review of the development of Open Science Services in Africa, initiatives, the current situation and chances in the future.
The Game of Open Access
The "Game of Open Access" is a board game developed by staff from Computing & Library Services at the University of Huddersfield. The aim is to to engage researchers with the key concepts and tools required to meet Open Access mandates. Through the use of playful learning, it aims to develop an understanding of the role of Open Access through the initial idea for an article to its acceptance for publication.
Change - Challenging Gender (In)Equality in Science and Research
The main aim of CHANGE is it to support research performing organisations (RPOs) to design and implement gender equality plans. This will be achieved by involving key actors, called Transfer Agents (TAs), within each organisation who will together with the core consortium partners transmit co-produced gender equality knowledge inside their institutions.
To Catch Misconduct, Journals Are Hiring Research Integrity Czars
Scientific journals' creation of dedicated positions for rooting out misconduct before publication comes amid growing awareness of such issues.
ELife, Coko, Hindawi Limited and Digirati Commit to Libero for Open-source Publishing
ELife, Coko, Hindawi Limited and Digirati Commit to Libero for Open-source Publishing
The development of a brand-new version of Libero will be governed under a model that puts the community at the heart of the project.
Stop Exploitation of Foreign Postdocs in the United States
A survey reveals some lab heads are using the need for visas to create unacceptable conditions for junior researchers.
Elsevier: the Price of Success
In its most recent publication, Education International examines the publishing giant Elsevier, whose success on the market is based on ethically questionable practices which endanger the transmission of knowledge and its condition as a public good.
The Experiments Are Fascinating. But Nobody Can Repeat Them.
Science is mired in a "replication" crisis. Fixing it will not be easy.