Practicing What You Preach: Evaluating Access of Open Access Research
This study finds that 73.7 percent of articles about OA are openly available.
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Chemistry Students With Advisers of Same Gender More Likely to Succeed
Women with female PhD supervisors publish more papers and are 50% more likely to become academics than those with male advisers.
Stop Hiding Your Code
If you are a scientist, there are many compelling reasons to openly share your source code, from reproducibility to increasing impact.
Facebook Shuts the Gate After the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process
Facebook Shuts the Gate After the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process
Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. While these changes may generate some positive publicity for the company, they are likely to compound the real problem, further diminishing transparency and opportunities for independent oversight.
Frankl - Open Science on the Blockchain
A blockchain platform and tokenised economy to promote, facilitate, and incentivise the practice of open science.
Obligation to Open Access: Academic Publishing of the Future?
How Open Access has been addressed in other countries, and how it can be implemented in Switzerland.
Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
By making the first progress on the "chromatic number of the plane" problem in over 60 years, an anti-aging pundit has achieved mathematical immortality.
Why the Term 'Article Processing Charge' (APC) Is Misleading
It is clear that APCs cover both the direct processing costs and the indirect costs of running the entire publishing business. Therefore, the term APC is itself misleading.
Practical Decentralization of Scholarly Data & Resources
It’s time for scholars to ask whether today’s data preservation technologies align with open scholarship’s values of access, preservation, privacy, and transparency.
Open Science Conference 2018: Going into practice!
The latest developments in science policy, hands-on examples from scientific communities as well as current developments in FAIR Data in the field of research data management. This is what was on offer at the Open Science Conference from 13 to 14 March 2018 in Berlin.
Science's 'Irreproducibility Crisis' Is a Public Policy Crisis Too
Congress will have to pay for some steps to ensure greater reproducibility in the sciences. In the end, those steps will save enormous amounts now spent building blind allies and mirages. What’s needed are standardized descriptions of scientific materials and procedures, standardized statistics programs, and standardized archival formats.
Results of the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot
For a period of almost 3 years, the OpenAIRE2020 project has run - on behalf of the European Commission - a pilot to fund post-grant Open Access publication of research outputs arising from projects financed under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7).
The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science: Causes, Consequences, and the Road to Reform
The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science: Causes, Consequences, and the Road to Reform
This study by the National Association of Scholars examines the different aspects of the reproducibility crisis of modern science. The report also includes a series of policy recommendations, scientific and political, for alleviating the reproducibility crisis.
How Libraries Secure Trust in the Research Process of the 21st Century
Three examples for library engagement in trust: scholarly communication literacy, information quality and legal certainty.
Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
Why Jupyter succeed where Mathematica failed? The obvious contrast is between the proprietary world of Wolfram and the open-source model of the software ecosystem that Jupyter mobilizes.
Science Publisher Springer Nature Anoounces €1.2 Billion IPO
Despite a mixed record for German stock market flotations in 2018, Springer Nature, the world's largest publisher of English-language research journals, has announced it is taking the plunge.
With the Herman Project, Home Bakers Become Citizen Scientists
Network tracks the evolution of microbial communities in sourdough starter mixtures shared around the world.
Knowledge Sharing in Global Health Research - the Impact, Uptake and Cost of Open Access to Scholarly Literature
Knowledge Sharing in Global Health Research - the Impact, Uptake and Cost of Open Access to Scholarly Literature
This study aims to assess the use, cost and impact of open access diffusion in the context of global health research. Although OA does not ensure full knowledge transfer from research to practice, limiting public access can negatively impact implementation and outcomes of health policy and reduce public understanding of health issues.
Study Explores Challenges to Black Graduate Engineering Students
A new study that follows 21 Black men pursuing graduate degrees in engineering explores themes of structural racism, unfair treatment, unwelcoming environments and feelings of isolation.
5 Strategies for Closing the STEM Gender Gap
With our society becoming increasingly dependent on technology and STEM literacy, it’s becoming even more imperative to close the drastic gender gap that exists within STEM fields.
To What Extent Is Inclusion in the Web of Science an Indicator of Journal 'Quality'?
To What Extent Is Inclusion in the Web of Science an Indicator of Journal 'Quality'?
Using WoS as a universalistic tool for research assessment can disadvantage science published in journals with adequate editorial standards and scientific merit.
Unlocking the Open - Europe PMC Integrates with Unpaywall
Europe PMC, one of the largest free online open access repositories in the life sciences, has teamed up with Unpaywall to unlock even more content for their users (the SNSF is a Europe PMC funding group member).
Do Papers with an Institutional E-Mail Address Receive More Citations Than Those with a Non-Institutional One?
Do Papers with an Institutional E-Mail Address Receive More Citations Than Those with a Non-Institutional One?
On average, papers with an institutional e-mail address receive more citations than other ones.
We Need the Humanities More Than Ever, Despite All the Shouting
We Need the Humanities More Than Ever, Despite All the Shouting
In today’s knowledge economy, the practical value of a STEM degree is obvious. Yet our future depends on graduates who are steeped in the humanities and social sciences.
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