Chemists Make First-ever Ring of Pure Carbon
Long after most chemists had given up trying, a team of researchers has synthesized the first ring-shaped molecule of pure carbon — a circle of 18 atoms.
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Scientists Who Leave Research to Pursue Other Careers in Science Are Still Scientists
DeepMind's Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Alphabet's DeepMind unit, conqueror of Go and other games, is losing lots of money. Continued deficits could imperil investments in AI.
Journals Retract More Than a Dozen Studies from China That May Have Used Executed Prisoners' Organs
Journals Retract More Than a Dozen Studies from China That May Have Used Executed Prisoners' Organs
In the past month, PLOS ONE and Transplantation have retracted fifteen studies by authors in China because of suspicions that the authors may have used organs from executed prisoners.
Desperately Seeking Scientists
When so many email addresses on journal articles don't work, we have a problem.
Ph.D. Students Resent Expectation That They Bring Food and Drinks to Their Thesis Defenses
Ph.D. Students Resent Expectation That They Bring Food and Drinks to Their Thesis Defenses
As it turns out, many Ph.D. students resent the expectation that they bring food and drinks to their thesis defenses. UCLA's psychology department just said they shouldn't do it.
Trump Administration Weakens Endangered Species Act
Changes to the United States' landmark conservation law make it easier to strip threatened species of the strongest protections.
Equity is Possible: Forging Paths Toward Equity and Anti-Racism in Scholarly Publishing
Equity is Possible: Forging Paths Toward Equity and Anti-Racism in Scholarly Publishing
In this guest post, Gisela Fosado and Cathy Rimer-Surles of Duke UP share highlights and a video from their panel session on equity at the 2019 AUPresses Annual Meeting, plus helpful recommendations to help us achieve equity in scholarly communications.
E.P.A. Broke Rules in Shake-Up of Science Panels, Federal Watchdog Says
The Government Accountability Office found that the administration "did not consistently ensure" that appointees to E.P.A. advisory boards met federal ethics requirements.
Research Outputs Find a Home at IndiaRxiv
Open Access India partners with the Center for Open Science to launch IndiaRxiv on the eve of India’s 73rd Independence Day as the country joins the global march for open science.
Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions
Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions
Proposing a model for thinking about the interactions of rigor, cogency, accessibility, significance, openness, and impact in scholarly quality.
SpringerOpen Pricing Trends 2018 - 2019
Of the 215 active journals published by SpringerOpen, 54% charge APCs. The average APC was 1,212 EUR, an increase of 8% over the 2018 average, 6 times the EU inflation rate for June 2019 of 1.3%.
Medicine Ignored Women's Health for Years - That's Finally Changing
For decades, the medical field has dismissed female health concerns. Women have been told that they’re imagining signs of heart attacks and other life-threatening ailments and had few resources devoted to researching their medical problems, but, at last, that seems to be changing.
Criteria for Assessing Grant Applications: A Systematic Review
Identification and synthetisation of studies that examine grant peer review criteria in an empirical and inductive manner.
Filling in the Gaps: The Interpretation of Curricula Vitae in Peer Review
A study of the use of curricula vitae for competitive funding decisions in science suggests that bibliographic categories such as authorship of publications or performance metrics may themselves come to be problematized and reshaped in the process.
Finally, Some Good News About Ebola: Two New Treatments Dramatically Lower the Death Rate in a Trial
Finally, Some Good News About Ebola: Two New Treatments Dramatically Lower the Death Rate in a Trial
Experimental Ebola treatments carried out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have shown strong signs of being able to save patients’ lives.
The Endangered Species Act is Incredibly Popular and Effective. Trump is Weakening It Anyway.
The Endangered Species Act is Incredibly Popular and Effective. Trump is Weakening It Anyway.
A million species are threatened worldwide. This is how Trump responds.
Key Concepts for Making Informed Choices
Teach people to think critically about claims and comparisons - they will make better decisions.
The Anthropocene Is a Joke
Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch.
Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines
Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines
A comprehensive analysis of longitudinal gender discrepancies in performance through a bibliometric analysis of academic careers.
Ebola Now Curable After Trials of Drugs in DRC, Say Scientists
Congo results show good survival rates for patients treated quickly with antibodies.
Populist President Sparks Unprecedented Crisis for Brazilian Science
Tensions are rising as Jair Bolsonaro’s administration questions the work of government scientists and institutes debilitating cuts to research funding.
Eat Less Meat: UN Climate Change Report Calls for Change to Human Diet
The report on global land use and agriculture from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon.
The Impact of Open Access on Teaching-How Far Have We Come?
This article seeks to understand how far the United Kingdom higher education (UK HE) sector has progressed towards open access (OA) availability of the scholarly literature it requires to support courses of study. It uses Google Scholar, Unpaywall and Open Access Button to identify OA copies of a random sample of articles copied under the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) HE Licence to support teaching. The quantitative data analysis is combined with interviews of, and a workshop with, HE practitioners to investigate four research questions. Firstly, what is the nature of the content being used to support courses of study? Secondly, do UK HE establishments regularly incorporate searches for open access availability into their acquisition processes to support teaching? Thirdly, what proportion of content used under the CLA Licence is also available on open access and appropriately licenced? Finally, what percentage of content used by UK HEIs under the CLA Licence is written by academics and thus has the potential for being made open access had there been support in place to enable this? Key findings include the fact that no interviewees incorporated OA searches into their acquisitions processes. Overall, 38% of articles required to support teaching were available as OA in some form but only 7% had a findable re-use licence; just 3% had licences that specifically permitted inclusion in an ‘electronic course-pack’. Eighty-nine percent of journal content was written by academics (34% by UK-based academics). Of these, 58% were written since 2000 and thus could arguably have been made available openly had academics been supported to do so.
The Odds Are Stacked Against Black, Latino Students Going to Grad School. Here Are Some Solutions
The Odds Are Stacked Against Black, Latino Students Going to Grad School. Here Are Some Solutions
A handful of universities are trying to help more black and Hispanic students get into and through graduate school, where they enroll in disproportionately low numbers. This is a problem not only for the students, but for the schools themselves and for employers who need workers with graduate educations.
Open Access for Monographs: Small Steps Along a Difficult Path
Since 2018, open access has also gained momentum with regards to monographs, now that a significant proportion of journal articles is already available in open access.
Boris Johnson Orders Fast-Track Visas for UK Science
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants a new fast-track visa system to attract leading scientists to work in the UK.
What's Next for OpenCon: Putting Equity at the Core
OpenCon works to make research & education more open and equitable.
AmeliCA Before Plan S
Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication to an open one. However, in Latin America an open access ecosystem for scholarly publishing has been in place for over a decade.
Misconduct Investigators, Show Your Work
Weighting transparency and confidentiality in scientific misconduct investigations.
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