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Science Disrupt London Sessions

Science Disrupt London Sessions

Science is going through a revolution. The world of tech, startups, makers, innovators and collaborators are beginning to be welcomed in to the scientific ecosystem in a way never seen before. Science: Disrupt brings together the innovators, iconoclasts and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science. Join us at Digital Science for our 4th Science Disrupt London Session to Disrupt the Lab!

You Can Make GitHub Repositories Archival by Using Zenodo or Figshare

You Can Make GitHub Repositories Archival by Using Zenodo or Figshare

GitHub is not a solution to the problem of making scripts and software available as part of the permanent record of a publication. But the folk at Zenodo and Mozilla Science Lab (in collaboration with Figshare) have solutions for you now.

Infographics on Research Integrity

Infographics on Research Integrity

The Office of Research Integrity shares a series of infographics addressing the Responsible Conduct of Research and the handling of research misconduct.

Genetic Technologies – What Are They and Where Might They Take Us?

Genetic Technologies – What Are They and Where Might They Take Us?

An animation explaining how genetic technologies work, as well as their possible ethical and societal implications; co-produced by the Royal Society and by the Wellcome Trust.

Why Your Journal Should Have a Reviewer Checklist and What it Should Include

Why Your Journal Should Have a Reviewer Checklist and What it Should Include

While offering reviewers any form of guidance is better than none, being thorough and creating a reviewer checklist is by far the best way to help reviewers know the expectations of your journal.

Who's Not Sharing Their Clinical Trial Results?

Who's Not Sharing Their Clinical Trial Results?

Explore our data to see the universities, government bodies and pharmaceutical companies that fail to share their clinical trial results.

Making Data and Tools Available for the World To See

Making Data and Tools Available for the World To See

At ATLAS, data sharing and an open, innovative approach to information collaboration has become a fundamental part of this important scientific community.

Publishing Better Science Through Better Data

Publishing Better Science Through Better Data

Last Wednesday, I attended a conference called Publishing Better Science Through Better Data at the Wellcome Collection, organized by Scientific Data.

Could Blockchain Provide the Technical Fix to Solve Science’s Crisis?

Could Blockchain Provide the Technical Fix to Solve Science’s Crisis?

Blockchain could strengthen science’s verification process, helping to make more research results reproducible, true, and useful, due to its capacity to make digital goods immutable, transparent, and provable.

Is your spreadsheet program altering your data?

Is your spreadsheet program altering your data?

The move to providing the underlying data behind research articles has been a major step towards promoting reproducibility, transparency and data re-use. However, analyses of the quality and annota…

Open in Action

Open in Action

Over a decade has passed since the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. A bystander could be forgiven for thinking that the level of discussion and the apparent differences in position across higher education institutions, publishing houses, laboratories, conference halls, funder headquarters, and government buildings must mean that progress has been limited.

How To Be an Academic in the Twenty-First Century

How To Be an Academic in the Twenty-First Century

Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties.