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Duke University biologist Sheila Patek has faced criticism from lawmakers over her research into mantis shrimp and trap-jaw ants, with some calling her government-funded studies a waste of taxpayer money. But according to Patek, not only do her findings have important practical applications, but scientific inquiry is most fruitful when knowledge is sought for its own sake, not to justify budgets.
Over the years, the nation has looked toward different kinds of science for its salvation, and science fairs have changed with the times.
Climate Feedback, a scientist-led effort to “peer review” the world’s climate journalism, is closing in on its $30,000 crowdfunding target.
How many people are actually using Sci-Hub to download publications while they are in universities?
Three of my projects appeared last week on a senator's list of questionable research. Allow me to explain...
To put it simply, Elsevier have distorted the widely recognized concept of open access...
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Another day, another puff-piece from academic publishers about how awesome they are. This time, the Publisher’s Association somehow suckered the Guardian into giving them a credible-looking p…
Universities must continue to monitor and track the variety of associated spending related to journal publishing and access, argues Lorraine Estelle. Many universities are forecasting that their AP…
Google believes there's a scientist in all of us, so it's launching a new app that turns your phone into a powerful little research lab.
Podcast discussions with the innovators, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science.
As part of our Event Data work we’ve been investigating where DOI resolutions come from.
A two-day sprint event bringing together researchers, coders, librarians and the public from around the globe.
SSRN’s data actually represents the world of social science scholarship reasonably well.
Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.
Why is it so frustrating and difficult to talk about scholarly-communication reform, and why do those conversations seem to involve virtually all members of the scholcomm ecosystem?
The world currently spends about €7.6 billion per year on subscriptions to academic journals according to one report. If all journal articles in the world were published in journals like PLOS One, we would spend €2.6 billion on publishing. Compared with today’s expenditures, humanity would save €5 billion every year.
When PLoS announced its data policy that all data should be made publicly available, everyone applauded. It was a big step toward an open science and data sharing.
Ever since Reagan and Thatcher made neoliberal ideas palatable to an unsuspecting public, concepts such as “New Public Management” or the more general notion that competition between in…
Top speakers announced at the next EuroScience Open Forum 2016, held in Manchester this summer (July 24-27).
A crowdfunding project to give insights into one possible aspect of gender bias in mathematics.
JournalReviewer is an independent site that aggregates information users provide about their experience with academic journals' review processes.
Today the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) will remove approximately 3300 journals for failure to submit a valid reapplication before the communicated deadline.
An opinon on the article "Merck Wants Its Money Back if University Research Is Wrong"
John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science.
Notes on Open Science from the Barcamp Science 2.0 and the Science 2.0 Conference.
Crossref will enable members to register preprints in order to clarify the scholarly citation record and better support the changing publishing models of its members.
