Sowing the Seeds of Diversity in Engineering
Only 14 percent of all engineers in the U.S. today are women, and the gender imbalance continues, or even worsens, when women enter the workforce.
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Only 14 percent of all engineers in the U.S. today are women, and the gender imbalance continues, or even worsens, when women enter the workforce.
Universities in New Zealand spent close to US$15 million on subscriptions to just four publishers in 2016, data that was only released following a request to the Ombudsman.
Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.
Offering seamless access to millions of open access research papers, enrich the collected data for text-mining and provide unique services to the research community.
Algorithms made him a Wall Street billionaire. His new research center helps scientists mine data for the common good.
The Journal Dashboards allow journals to see what people are saying about the papers they published, and allows readers to know which journals are particularly responsive to community feedback.
Scholars push for free access to online citation data, saying they need and deserve access to the reference data they helped create.
“How’s my paper doing?” It’s such a simple question, and in today’s hyperconnected world it’s relatively easy to work out who’s reading and talking about your scientific publications. But are there conversations you might be overlooking?
Using a database of 750 cases of research fraud from around the world, professors examine fraud as a phenomenon, tracing its history and trajectory and looking at what can be done about it.
When statistical fudging is buried in the way data are sliced and diced after the fact or put through tortured analysis in a search for significant results.
With the recent acquisition of bepress by Elsevier, we’ve been asked by a number of people if Open Journal Systems is next.
Celebrating the power of photography to communicate science and the role great images play in making science accessible to a wide audience.
The San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment moves into a global phase of action with community support.
A Nobel Laureate has retracted a 2016 paper in Nature Chemistry that explored the origins of life on earth, after discovering the main conclusions were not correct.
Keeping meticulous records over decades, the Krefeld Entomological Society documented a 75 percent decline in bug populations that shocked the world.
Equifax aside, companies are doing better at securing their info. But the phishers keep coming.
Various women who have inspired us for their trailblazing efforts in science.
Sue Finley began working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory three days before the US space program launched its first satellite.
Papers authored by academic and corporate partners are more widely discussed online.
In an effort to strengthen and secure the network of non-commercial services that underpin the burgeoning field of Open Science, a newly-formed coalition of international organisations is spearheading an unconventional appeal.
Current estimates for the cost of subscription articles converge around US$5,000 per article. This number is reached by dividing the estimated US$10b spent on subscriptions annually world-wide.
Fostering collaboration and good data practices in faculties.
New report considers the developments and varying perspectives of blockchain technology and its possible impact on the academic arena.