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Open-access Pioneer Randy Schekman on Plan S and Disrupting Scientific Publishing
Open-access Pioneer Randy Schekman on Plan S and Disrupting Scientific Publishing
eLife's departing editor talks about the seismic changes he sees coming - and why some journals will lose out.
Shifting Attitudes of Researchers Towards Open Access Mandates
Shifting attitudes of researchers towards open access mandates.
Scientists Rally Around Vanderbilt Professor Whose Tenure Bid Appeared to Hit Roadblocks As Me Too Activism Grew
Open Access and Plan S: How Wellcome is Tackling Four Key Concerns | Wellcome
Open Access and Plan S: How Wellcome is Tackling Four Key Concerns | Wellcome
There has been a fair amount of reactions to the changes being made to Wellcome's open access policy to ensure that no research is behind a paywall. This is how Wellcome are working to address them.
Deal Reveals What Scientists in Germany Are Paying for Open Access
Project Deal, a consortium of libraries, universities, and research institutes in Germany, has unveiled an unprecedented deal with a major journal publisher, Wiley, that is drawing close scrutiny from advocates of open access to scientific papers.
Wellcome Open Research, the Future of Scholarly Communication?
In this blog, Robert Kiley and Michael Markie, discuss the ambition behind creating Wellcome Open Research, an innovative funder led publishing platform, and assess the success of the platform over its first two years.
Seeking Projects at the Intersection of Openness and Science
Mozilla has opened applications for Open Science Mini-Grants. The latest round of grants seeks projects that address open practices in the field of biomedicine.
Become an Ask for Evidence Ambassador
Ask for Evidence is a public campaign that holds powerful figures, companies, organisations and public bodies to account. It helps people challenge claims in news stories, adverts and policies and ask for the evidence behind them. It’s making sure a discussion on the evidence happens when it really matters. Becoming an ambassador is an opportunity to encourage others in your region to Ask for Evidence by giving talks, running activities and talking with community groups about issues that matter to them.
To Move Research from Quantity to Quality, Go Beyond Good Intentions
Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel calls for formal action to bake in better research practices.
Counting is Not Enough - How Plain Language Statements Could Improve Research Assessment
Counting is Not Enough - How Plain Language Statements Could Improve Research Assessment
Academic hiring and promotion committees and funding bodies often use publication lists as a shortcut to assessing the quality of applications. In order to avoid bias towards prestigious titles, plain language statements should become a standard feature of academic assessment.
It's Not Only Better Salaries That Prevent Researchers from Newer Member States Returning Home
It's Not Only Better Salaries That Prevent Researchers from Newer Member States Returning Home
Although researchers do leave newer member states to pursue their career goals, especially in the early stages of their career, they almost always never want to return to their home countries.
The Dos and Don'ts of Influencing Policy: a Systematic Review of Advice to Academics
The Dos and Don'ts of Influencing Policy: a Systematic Review of Advice to Academics
Many academics have strong incentives to influence policymaking, but may not know where to start. Recent research has examined the ‘how to’ advice in the academic peer-reviewed and grey literatures.
The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub: How Does a New Generation of Researchers Perceive Sci-Hub?
The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub: How Does a New Generation of Researchers Perceive Sci-Hub?
How do early career researchers use Sci-Hub and why? In this post David Nicholas assesses early career researcher attitudes towards the journal pirating site.
India's Chief Science Adviser: Cost of Academic Publishing is 'untenable'
India's annual multi-million-euro outlay on scientific publishing is a bad deal for the country, says Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government.
Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-time Science After First Child
Fabiola Gianotti: 'There is Nothing More Rewarding Than Discovering a New Particle'
The director general of Cern talks about discovering the Higgs boson, women in science and the next generation of colliders.
For a Black Mathematician, What It's Like to Be the 'Only One'
Fewer than 1 percent of doctorates in math are awarded to African-Americans. Edray Goins, who earned one of them, found the upper reaches of the math world a challenging place.
The Secret History of Women in Coding
Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
How to Bring Prestige to Open Access - and Make Science More Reliable
By creating journals that put a premium on replicability, grant-funding agencies can revolutionize the publishing landscape.
University Report Makes Recommendations to Address Gender, Race Disparities Among Faculty
University Report Makes Recommendations to Address Gender, Race Disparities Among Faculty
A two-year study by the University on the status of women and underrepresented minority faculty at Columbia has resulted in a set of proposals on ways to close salary gaps, spur academic advancement and improve the overall work environment.
Boon, Bias or Bane? The Potential Influence of Reviewer Recommendations on Editorial Decision-making : Journal: European Science Editing
Boon, Bias or Bane? The Potential Influence of Reviewer Recommendations on Editorial Decision-making : Journal: European Science Editing
No formal investigations have been conducted into the efficacy or potential influence of reviewer recommendations on editorial decisions, and the impact of this on the expectations and behaviour of authors, reviewers and journal editors. This article addresses key questions about this critical aspect of the peer review submission process.
Time to Panic
The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us.
Machine Learning 'Causing Science Crisis'
Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.
Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Reproducibility Crisis With AI
Social science has an image problem - too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.
Small Teams of Scientists Have Fresher Ideas
A new study shows that little teams are more likely to take their research in radically new directions.
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