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Award-Winning Nautilus Magazine Enters Troubled Waters

Award-Winning Nautilus Magazine Enters Troubled Waters

Funding shortfalls at the luxe science magazine have left some contributors waiting months to be paid. They may need to wait a little longer.

The Digital Industrial Revolution

The Digital Industrial Revolution

As machine learning surpasses human intelligence, where does that leave us? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about the exciting — and terrifying — future of human-robot collaboration.

The Ethics and Economics of Academic Publishing

The Ethics and Economics of Academic Publishing

Is it unethical for a Publisher to extract content from an academic author and commercially benefit from the sale of this without returning any of the economic gains back to the provider of that content or his/her employer?

ProgrammingHistorian.org

ProgrammingHistorian.org

A novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.

SHERPA RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving

SHERPA RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving

SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving.

A World Without Science — Part 1: Infectious Diseases

A World Without Science — Part 1: Infectious Diseases

Advances in science and public health policy have saved over 107 million lives in 25 years.

Open Knowledge Maps

Open Knowledge Maps

Open Knowledge Maps is a visualization tool for researchers that allows them to view groupings of manuscripts that share common words when searching for a new research topic

Five Reasons Blog Posts Sre of Higher Scientific Quality than Journal Articles

Five Reasons Blog Posts Sre of Higher Scientific Quality than Journal Articles

In this blog, I will examine the hypothesis that blogs are, on average, of higher quality than journal articles.

Science Is the Name but Collaboration Is the Game

Science Is the Name but Collaboration Is the Game

The growing need for collaboration among young scientists is more essential now than ever before, with careers in research becoming more uncertain and perilous.

What Are the Barriers to Post-Publication Peer Review?

What Are the Barriers to Post-Publication Peer Review?

Post-publication peer review emerged in response to increased calls for continuous moderation of the published research literature.

It's Time to Change what we Value in Science

It's Time to Change what we Value in Science

A message from eLife early career group made up of graduate students, post docs, and junior group leaders of the eLife early-career advisory board.

Scientists Are Getting Proactive About Self-Corrections

Scientists Are Getting Proactive About Self-Corrections

The process for correcting a published article can be needlessly burdensome. So some researchers have decided to take matters into their own hands.

Federal Research Funding Up in Fiscal Year 2015

Federal Research Funding Up in Fiscal Year 2015

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

We Cannot Rely on For-Profit Corporations to Build Open Scholarly Infrastructure

We Cannot Rely on For-Profit Corporations to Build Open Scholarly Infrastructure

There is an important point here: we simply can’t build a meaningfully open scholarly infrastructure that is dependent on the whims of corporations. It can’t be done.

Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication

Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication

The Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication, which was in the planning since 4 years, will be held September 10-12, 2017, in Chicago.

These Startups Are Ditching the Uber Model and Hiring Full-Time Workers

These Startups Are Ditching the Uber Model and Hiring Full-Time Workers

A second generation of gig economy startups is abandoning a dependence on contractors in favor of full employees.

Data From 14 Million Papers Is Now Available for Free

Data From 14 Million Papers Is Now Available for Free

A new organization, I4OC, is working towards making reliable, structured data of authors, reference lists, and citations accessible to the public.

OMICtools: Bioinformatics Software and Database Search Engine

OMICtools: Bioinformatics Software and Database Search Engine

OMICtools bridges the gap between life science and computational biology.

Setting your Cites on Open

Setting your Cites on Open

The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched on April 6th, 2017. Over the course of about six months, the initiative has made a large fraction of the citation data that link all scholarship freely available.