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90% of All the Scientists That Ever Lived Are Alive Today

90% of All the Scientists That Ever Lived Are Alive Today

 If science is growing exponentially, then the major technological advancements and upheavals of the past 200 years are only the tip of the iceberg.

Statistical Pitfalls of Personalized Medicine

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.

Men and Women Use Their Time Differently, but Everyone Works Too Much

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

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.

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

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. 

First Law of Leadership: Be Human First, Scientist Second

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

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.

How the Entire Scientific Community Can Confront Gender Bias in the Workplace

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

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.

OpenUP Policy Recommendations

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

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"

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?

The Game of Open Access

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

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.

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

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

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.