PM Gives Green Light to Post-Brexit Research Deal
The UK will endeavour to continue in an EU science programme after Brexit.
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How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry
Self-governance of science was supposed to mean freedom of inquiry, but it also ended up serving the business model of scientific publishers while undermining the goals of science policy.
Roadmap for Open Science
The Roadmap for Open Science is a part of Canada's 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government. It outlines next steps that should be taken to make federal science open to all, while respecting privacy, security, ethical considerations and appropriate intellectual property protection.
A Single 'Paper Mill' Appears to Have Churned out 400 Papers, Sleuths Find
A Single 'Paper Mill' Appears to Have Churned out 400 Papers, Sleuths Find
Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabricated images. Some journals are now investigating the papers.
Women of Color in Academia Often Work Harder for Less Respect | Nadia Owusu
'A Completely New Culture of Doing Research.' Coronavirus Outbreak Changes How Scientists Communicate
'A Completely New Culture of Doing Research.' Coronavirus Outbreak Changes How Scientists Communicate
Preprint servers and journals are working overtime to keep up with a "firehose" of data.
Citations Systematically Misrepresent the Quality and Impact of Research Articles: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Thousands of Citers
Citations Systematically Misrepresent the Quality and Impact of Research Articles: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Thousands of Citers
Citations are ubiquitous in evaluating research, but how exactly they relate to what they are thought to measure is unclear. This article investigates the relationships between citations, quality, and impact using a survey with an embedded experiment.
UNESCO Launches a Global Consultation to Develop a Standard-setting Instrument on Open Science
UNESCO Launches a Global Consultation to Develop a Standard-setting Instrument on Open Science
In the context of pressing planetary and socio-economic challenges, sustainable and innovative solutions must be supported by an efficient, transparent and vibrant scientific effort - not only stemming from the scientific community, but from the whole society. Go directly to the questionnaire.
Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain
Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain
For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithonian Institution has launched a new open access platform high-resolution images from across its collections for patrons to peruse and download free of charge.
What Coronavirus Teaches Us for Preventing the Next Big Bio Threat
The vast majority of the discourse among the punditry and policymakers is about ensuring we have the right response. Shouldn't we instead be asking a more fundamental question: How did this happen in the first place?
Living Science: Words Without Meaning
Many of the words used by scientists when reviewing manuscripts, job candidates and grant applications - words such as incremental, novelty, mechanism, descriptive and impact - have lost their meaning.
'Recenter Library Systems on the User': An Interview with OhioLINK's Gwen Evans
The major US library consortium OhioLINK has created a vision for the systems that libraries use for acquiring content from publishers, managing collections, and enabling discovery. An interview about this vision with executive director Gwen Evans.
Obituary: Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson, a NASA trailblazer, dies at 101.
Developing a Research Data Policy Framework for All Journals and Publishers
Developing a Research Data Policy Framework for All Journals and Publishers
This article proposes measures and policies which can be adopted by journals and publishers to promote good practices in data sharing.
Project to Explore Open Access Agreements Between Society Publishers and Library Consortia in Developing and Transition Economy Countries
Project to Explore Open Access Agreements Between Society Publishers and Library Consortia in Developing and Transition Economy Countries
The new project will run during the first half of 2020. It is supported by Wellcome Trust, led by Information …
One Small Grain of Moon Dust, One Giant Leap for Lunar Studies
Back in 1972, NASA sent their last team of astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo 17 mission. These astronauts brought some of the Moon back to Earth so scientists could continue to study lunar soil in their labs. Since we haven't returned to the Moon in almost 50 years, every lunar sample is precious. We need to make them count for researchers now and in the future. In a new study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, scientists found a new way to analyze the chemistry of the Moon's soil using a single grain of dust.
PLOS and the University of California Announce Open Access Publishing Agreement
PLOS and the University of California Announce Open Access Publishing Agreement
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and the University of California (UC) announced a two-year agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish in the nonprofit open access publisher’s suite of journals.
Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19
Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19
Public health scientists who have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are deeply concerned about its impact on global health and wellbeing.
OPERAS Survey on SSH Scholarly Communication
OPERAS Survey on SSH Scholarly Communication
OPERAS runs a survey to find out more about social sciences and humanities (SSH) scholarly communication.
Scientists Are Curious and Passionate and Ready to Argue
A robot career adviser's personality assessment, based on analysis of tweets.
'Eugenics is Possible' is Not the Same As 'eugenics is Good'
Rows over eugenics reveal how difficult it is to 'decouple' controversial concepts in our heads.
Scientists Call for Reform on Rankings and Indices of Science Journals
Scientists Call for Reform on Rankings and Indices of Science Journals
Researchers are used to being evaluated based on indices like the impact factors of the scientific journals in which they publish papers and their number of citations. A team of 14 natural scientists from nine countries are now rebelling against this practice, arguing that obsessive use of indices is damaging the quality of science.
Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.
Reforming Research Assessment: A Tough Nut to Crack
Alison Mudditt looks at the recently released TOP Factor from the Center for Open Science, and the bigger picture of shifting the nature of research assessment.
'The Disruption is Enormous.' Coronavirus Epidemic Snarls Science Worldwide
'The Disruption is Enormous.' Coronavirus Epidemic Snarls Science Worldwide
Experiments lost as labs remain closed; scientific meetings canceled or postponed.
Open Access and Plan S: 5 Key Activities
In this short piece Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at Wellcome and interim cOAlition S Coordinator provides an update on five key activities cOAlition S is currently supporting.
Let's Be FAIR! ALLEA Presents Recommendations for Sustainable Data Sharing in the Humanities
Let's Be FAIR! ALLEA Presents Recommendations for Sustainable Data Sharing in the Humanities
A new ALLEA report provides key recommendations to make digital data in the humanities. The document is designed as a practical guide to navigate the shift towards a sustainable data sharing culture.
Racial Microaggressions In Science
What are racial microaggressions and how do they appear within science communities?
Stagnation and Scientific Incentives
This paper presents a simple model of the lifecycle of scientific ideas that points to changes in scientist incentives as the cause of scientific stagnation. It explores ways to broaden how scientific productivity is measured and rewarded, involving both academic search engines such as Google Scholar measuring which contributions explore newer ideas and university administrators and funding agencies utilizing these new metrics in research evaluation.
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