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Complaint to the European Ombudsman about Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor
Complaint to the European Ombudsman about Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor
A formal complaint to the European Commission Ombudsman regarding the relationship between Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor.
Red-hot Planet: All-time Heat Records Have Been Set All Over the World During the Past Week
Red-hot Planet: All-time Heat Records Have Been Set All Over the World During the Past Week
From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.
What Is a Predatory Journal?
The objective of this scoping review is to summarize the literature on predatory journals, describe its epidemiological characteristics, and to extract empirical descriptions of potential characteristics of predatory journals.
Making Research Evaluation Processes in Europe More Transparent
What models or practices could be developed to help incentivize and reward innovation and diverse forms of scholarly communication and public engagement while reducing the risk to those who are seen to be diverging from traditional modes of professional practices and advancement?
Excellence-Network.net: Mapping Research Collaborations in Different Scientific Fields
Excellence-Network.net: Mapping Research Collaborations in Different Scientific Fields
A web application showing how successful universities or research-focused institutions collaborate.
The Cost of a Career: A Letter to My Younger Self
If only I had known then what I know now, 16 years later, this is what I would have told myself.
Enago Open Access Journal Finder
This free tool helps you shortlist verified open access journals from DOAJ for publishing your manuscript thereby safeguarding you from predatory journals.
Nature Editor Bids Farewell
A reflection as the seventh editor-in-chief of Nature hands over to the eighth.
Call for Action: Horizon Europe Needs a Specific Programme for Funding Science, Society and Citizens' Initiatives
Call for Action: Horizon Europe Needs a Specific Programme for Funding Science, Society and Citizens' Initiatives
There is an urgent need to strengthen funding for the interaction between science and society, but the EU's proposal for Horizon Europe does not foresee a programme dedicated to Science with and for Society.
Psychiatrists Call for Rollback of Policy Banning Discussion of Public Figures’ Mental Health
Psychiatrists Call for Rollback of Policy Banning Discussion of Public Figures’ Mental Health
Some of the field’s most notable thinkers call on the American Psychiatric Association to permit discussion of public figures' mental health in some cases.
The Latest in Search: Do New Discovery Solutions Improve Search as Well as Retrieval?
The Latest in Search: Do New Discovery Solutions Improve Search as Well as Retrieval?
A heuristic (exploratory) comparison of several new, free / mainstream academic search tools, concluding that their effectivness improves if an institution's library licenses them for off-campus authentication.
Philip Zimbardo Defends the Stanford Prison Experiment, his Most Famous Work
What’s the scientific value of the Stanford Prison Experiment? Zimbardo responds to the new allegations against his work.
Retracted Papers Keep Being Cited as if they Weren’t Retracted. Two Researchers Suggest how Elsevier Could Help Fix that.
Retracted Papers Keep Being Cited as if they Weren’t Retracted. Two Researchers Suggest how Elsevier Could Help Fix that.
Even after a paper’s retracted, it will continue to be cited - often by researchers who don’t realize the findings are problematic.
Visibility Matters: A Conversation with the Co-Founder of 500 Queer Scientists
Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis
Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis
A digital scholarship librarian and a historian assembled a team of professors, graduate students, researchers, and fellows to create "Torn Apart / Separados", an interactive web site that visualizes the vast apparatus of immigration enforcement in the US, and broadly maps the shelters where children can be housed.
Male Scientists Are Far More Likely to Be Referred to by Their Last Names, Impacting Status and Awards
Male Scientists Are Far More Likely to Be Referred to by Their Last Names, Impacting Status and Awards
The same gender disparity goes for politicians, athletes, and other high-profile figures
Opendata Conference Switzerland 2018
Opendata.ch/2018 ist die führende Konferenz der Schweiz rund um das Thema offene Daten. Jährlich prägen wir die nationale Open-Data-Diskussion, mit VertreterInnen aus Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik, Journalismus, IT und weiteren Interessengebieten.
African Scientists Launch their own Preprint
A group of open science advocates have launched the first preprint aimed exclusively at African scientists. The free, online outlet is one of a growing number for academics on the continent to share their work.
A New Twist on Peer Review
eLife is conducting a trial in which authors will decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review.
Will Europe Lead a Global Flip to Open Access?
There appears to be no realistic path forward that achieves Europe's 2020 open access targets without resulting in substantial revenue reductions for existing publishers. Will Europe miss its OA target? Or will publishers miss their revenue targets?
Hiring Policy at the LMU Psychology Department: Better Have some Open Science Track Record
Hiring Policy at the LMU Psychology Department: Better Have some Open Science Track Record
Candidates to the psychology department at LMU Munich are asked to describe in what way they already pursued and plan to pursue various Open Science goals.
The PhD Picnic Guidelines, Rewritten
A different take on advice frequently given to PhD students.
US-Chinese Trade War Puts Scientists in the Cross Hairs
Trump puts tariffs on Chinese technology and China retaliates with taxes on US chemicals.
How Universities Deal With Sexual Harassment Needs Sweeping Change, Panel Says
Current policies and programs have failed overwhelmingly to address and prevent the problem, said a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.