Medical Schools Ease Admission Rules in Name of Diversity
Top universities are dropping some of the hardest A-levels from their entry requirements to attract more girls and poorer pupils on to courses dominated by male and middle-class students.
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Fact Check: What You May Have Heard About the Dispute Between UC and Elsevier
A fact check from UC’s negotiating team.
Big Deal Knowledge Base
This database puts libraries on a more level playing field with vendors by detailing what thousands of peer institutions have paid for journal subscription packages.
Commission Names Board Members for Horizon Europe Missions
The experts will be responsible for designing the large-scale, objective-driven research projects, which are seen as central to reframing Europe’s approach to tackling ‘grand challenges’ including climate change, soil erosion, sustainable food production and marine and freshwater pollution.
The Right to Read is the Right To Mine: But Not When Blocked by Technical Protection Measures
The Right to Read is the Right To Mine: But Not When Blocked by Technical Protection Measures
The Association of European Research Libraries is working with Libraries Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA) to gather evidence about what happens when Technical Protection Measures (TPMs) block researchers from accessing content because they have attempted text and data mining.
Meta-Research: Use of the Journal Impact Factor in Academic Review, Promotion, and Tenure Evaluations
Meta-Research: Use of the Journal Impact Factor in Academic Review, Promotion, and Tenure Evaluations
Almost a quarter of faculty evaluation documents from US and Canadian universities mention Journal Impact Factor and often imply that it measures research quality.
Implementing a Data Policy: a How-to Guide for Publishers - OASPA
OASPA is pleased to publish this guest post on the subject of open data and data sharing, providing helpful practical advice drawn from a wealth of resources, to enable publishers and editors to play a key role in the important movement to make data accessible.
Significant Economic Benefits? Enhancing the Impact of Open Science for Knowledge Users
Significant Economic Benefits? Enhancing the Impact of Open Science for Knowledge Users
In this post it is discussed how open research can lead to economic benefits. The author suggests that future open research policies should focus on developing research discovery, translation and the capacity for research utilisation outside of the academy.
A Call for Funders to Ban Institutions That Use Grant Capture Targets
Grant capture is often used as a formal metric for academic evaluation. The author argues that this practice has led to perverse incentives for researchers and institutions and that research funders have both a responsibility and a significant interest in using their influence to halt this practice.
I'm a Scientist. Under Trump I Lost My Job for Refusing to Hide Climate Crisis Facts
I'm a Scientist. Under Trump I Lost My Job for Refusing to Hide Climate Crisis Facts
I was a climate scientist in a climate-denying administration - and it cost me my job writes Maria Caffrey
Many of the Deadliest Cancers Receive the Least Amount of Research Funding
Many of the deadliest or most common cancers get the least amount of nonprofit research funding, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study that examined cancer research funding from nonprofit organizations.
RDA and COAR Collaborate to Progress Research Data Management Internationally
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce an agreement to work together to strengthen and expand capacities for research data management within the international data repository community.
Celebrating 2,000 Submissions on In Review
Scientific manuscript tracking and pre-prints with the In Review service from Springer Nature and Research Square.
'Bad Science': Australian Studies Found to Be Unreliable, Compromised
Hundreds of scientific research papers published by Australian scientists have been found to be unreliable or compromised, fuelling calls for a national science watchdog.
What Science Looks Like
The publication of our first two Registered Reports marks a major milestone for Nature Human Behaviour. These studies demonstrate what many researchers know, but is often hidden from the published literature: confirmatory research doesn't always confirm the authors' hypotheses.
Thousands of Universities Join Wave of Climate Emergency Declarations
The climate emergency movement is heading to school. Global higher education networks tying together more than 7000 universities and colleges from across the globe declared a climate emergency and published a three-point plan to confront the escalating environmental crisis.
Yentl Syndrome: A Deadly Data Bias Against Women
The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes - and how much danger women are in.
Why It's So Hard To Reform Peer Review
Measurement creates a temptation to achieve a measurable goal by less than totally honest means. As in physics, the simple act of measuring invariably disturbs what you are trying to measure.
Funded Partnership Brings Dryad and Zenodo Closer
Collaboration brings together leading platforms for data and software sharing.
The Death of the Learned Societies?
With open access Plan S approaching, learned society journals are expected to fall in hard times.
Plan S FAQs
Plan S is a manifesto for full and immediate Open Access set out by a coalition of research funders. It has been discussed a lot recently, but what, exactly, does it involve?
Interdisciplinary Comparison of Scientific Impact of Publications Using the Citation-Ratio
Interdisciplinary Comparison of Scientific Impact of Publications Using the Citation-Ratio
Article shows that the Citation-Ratio is more consistent across disciplines than total numbers of citations.
Establishing, Developing, and Sustaining a Community of Data Champions
Establishing, Developing, and Sustaining a Community of Data Champions
While research data support units now exist in many universities, these are typically not able to provide discipline-specific expertise or resources. This article focuses on the Data Champion Programme at the University of Cambridge, which empowers discipline-specific expertise already embedded within each unit to advocate for good RDM and to deliver support locally.
The Definition of Reuse
Article postulates that a clear definition of use and reuse is needed to establish better metrics for a comprehensive scholarly record of individuals, institutions, organizations, etc. Hence, this article presents a first definition of reuse of research data.
Inside a “Fake” Conference: A Journey Into Predatory Science
Science journalist attends a predatory conference and interviews scientists involved.
Textbook Analysis Uncovers Erroneous Explanations of Statistical Significance
Textbook Analysis Uncovers Erroneous Explanations of Statistical Significance
An examination of introductory psychology textbooks suggests that prospective psychological researchers may learn to interpret statistical significance incorrectly in their undergraduate classes.
I Hate Open Science
Blog post encourages using more specific terms to decrease ambiguity in discussions around open science.
Generalise, Don't Specialise: Why Focusing Too Narrowly is Bad for Us
The 10,000-hour rule says intense, dedicated practice makes perfect - at that one thing. But what if breadth actually serves us better than depth?
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