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Open Research Funders Group
A partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs.
Socializing Academia
Sick of relying on commercial platforms for academic sharing? Humanities Commons, SocArXiv, and the Center for Open Science to the rescue!
How to Act Like a Superstar Scholar
A guide to help selfish academics ensure that everyone at a conference knows they are very special indeed.
The Research Librarian of the Future: Data Scientist and Co-Investigator
How the research librarian of the future might work, utilising new data science and digital skills to drive more collaborative and open scholarship.
Why I Still Won’t Review For or Publish With Elsevier–And Think You Shouldn’t Either
A list of some of the shady things Elsevier has been previously caught doing
CiteScore–Flawed But Still A Game Changer
The real innovation of CiteScore is not another performance metric, but a new marketing model focused on editors.
Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2016
Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2016
All the videos and slides from #scidata16.
Comparing Impact Factor and Scopus CiteScore
A preliminary analysis of the new Elsevier's CiteScore journal metric.
Before the Abstract
Stories about science, research, and being a scientist.
PubPub
A free and open tool for collaborative editing, instant publishing, continuous review, and grassroots journals. PubPub is supported and advised by many MIT Media Lab professors, students, and friends.
Turn Children on to Science Through Reading
Books have the power to trigger a lifelong urge to know more about the world and its environs.
Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability, a Timeline
It’s not a new story, although “the reproducibility crisis” may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in the late 1950s. A timeline.
The licensing of bioRxiv preprints
PeerJ offers the better technology and user experience than bioRxiv, but bioRxiv has greater adoption in the biodata sciences.
Honest Mistakes in Research
Times Higher Education is looking at what happens when academics make an honest mistake in their research. Can you take the time to answer four simple questions?You will not be asked to leave your name, email address or any other personal information. We cannot track who has taken part.The survey is completely anonymous, so please answer honestly.
Vote for your Scientific Breakthrough of the Year
Getting ready to unveil the 21st “Breakthrough of the Year”...
BD2K Open Data Science Symposium
How Open Data and Open Science are Transforming Biomedical Research
Helping Scientists to Help Others
Guest post by Professor Elizabeth Loftus, winner of the 2016 John Maddox Prize
Under Trump, Scientists May Get a Break on Data-Sharing
The Association of American Universities worries that the open-access policies federal research agencies are developing now are not sufficiently aligned. Any slowdown in putting them in place, it says, is "probably a positive."
Google’s DeepMind AI Can Lip-Read TV Shows Better Than a Pro
An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes.
Revenge of the Nerds
PIDapalooza, the first ever festival of persistent identifiers, set out not only to bring together the creators and users of PIDs, but also to make PIDs cool.
SciHashtag.com
A collection of Twitter hashtags about science communication to facilitate engagement with academics and professionals on Twitter.
An Open Letter from and to Female Scientists
In the aftermath of the election results, a group of women in the sciences has banded together to speak out against anti-intellectualism, inequality, sexism and discrimination.
How to be an Outstanding Proposal Writer
Key areas that you’ll need to work on to be an outstanding proposal writer.