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Hans Eysenck More than two dozen papers by a controversial psychologist who died in 1997 are "unsafe."
Hundreds of scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict “incalculable human suffering.”
A researcher offers three principles for providing constructive, respectful feedback
Publishers, reviewers and other members of the scientific community must fight science's preference for positive results - for the benefit of all.
In September, Ethiopia adopted a national open access policy for higher education institutions. EIFL guest blogger, Dr Solomon Mekonnen Tekle, librarian at Addis Ababa University Library, and EIFL Open Access Coordinator in Ethiopia, celebrates the adoption of the policy.
Robert Harington suggests that despite the critical role of scholarly societies in publishing and academia, the sad reality is it is the big corporate publishers who win.
A new report draws on contributions from more than 3,700 researchers to look at the current research landscape in the UK, including systems of research assessment, and to look ahead at how it may change over the next five to ten years.
Former members of an air quality scientific advisory committee that was disbanded by the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday they were forming an independent panel to continue their work.
Nonpartisan taskforce of ex-government officials reports 'almost weekly violations' of norms meant to safeguard objective research.
U.K. efforts to leave the European Union have pushed out scientists and convinced some not to come.
In this interview, Aileen Fyfe, professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews, shares an abridged history of journal publishing at scholarly societies and her thoughts on how scholarly publishing's past can influence its present.
The MIT Press has received a three-year $850,000 grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, to perform a broad-based monograph publishing cost analysis and to develop and openly disseminate a durable financial framework and business plan for open access (OA) monographs.
Opinion piece examining a study that found that the correlation between student evaluations and quality of learning is negative.
Sharing research data is increasingly becoming a real business. Today, we provide an overview this landscape and highlight several recent announcements that may indicate future strategic prospects.
Wellcome is right to call out hyper-competitiveness in research and question the focus on excellence. But other funders must follow its move.
External and internal collaboration patterns are presented.
Just how big a problem is predatory publishing? Simon Linacre reflects on the news this week that Cabells announced it has reached 12,000 journals on its Journal Blacklist and shares some insights into publishing’s dark side.
The World Science Day for Peace and Development 2019 will be devoted to the theme of "Open Science, leaving no one behind".
Past laureates have their favorites and hunches, wrong though they usually are. As one 2018 winner said, "It's not helpful to second-guess these things!"
Given the reality of fraudulent publishers and their deceptive practices, will institutions consider more strongly guiding author choice of publishing venue in order to protect institutional reputation?
Academic libraries have an opportunity to engage in open access publishing to promote and protect the work being done by humanities scholars.
Das Wissenschaftsmagazin higgs setzt Forschung ab sofort in den Kontext.
Readers say they have been asked to reference seemingly superfluous studies after peer review.
The evidence is too weak to justify telling individuals to eat less beef and pork, according to new research. The findings "erode public trust," critics said.
The rhetoric of "excellence" is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does "excellence" actually mean anything?
Scientists who were booted from their advisory roles by the Trump administration plan to reconvene their air pollution panel without the backing of the government.
How do academics become professors? This paper considers the making of ‘professor’ as a subject position through which academics are acknowledged in both organizational contexts and disciplinary fields.
Fecher and Kobsda introduce the Research Impact Canvas - a structured guide to plan science communication activities.
To foster open access in Finland, universities have decided to join forces and develop a full service platform for open publishing.
