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A dispute between Australia’s major research funding agencies and universities over the definition of research misconduct has revealed global inconsistencies in the way misconduct is defined and regulated, as well as its ambiguous legal status.
Six drug firms are paying to sequence the genes of every volunteer in the UK Biobank.
German universities demand open access and fair pricing from academic publishing house Elsevier.
There is a serious lack in sharing material/resources that are used to creating the building-blocks of a research experiment.
They may be too humble to call themselves heroes, but there's no better way to describe them according to Bill Gates.
An EU-funded platform is helping to generate answers from known cases by enabling scientists to pool and compare genomic and clinical data.
Article documenting increases in research output quantity - accompanied by decreases in quality - near the time of government-set deadlines for university evaluations.
News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research.
9 productivity tips and tricks for tackling to-do lists as a researcher.
In a gender discrimination lawsuit against the Salk Institute, a female scientist alleges that biologist Inder Verma was dismissive of his female colleagues.
A glossary of open research terms to inform people about the culture of ‘open scholarship’.
Elsevier is allowing researchers in Germany to access its paywalled journals without a contract until a national agreement is hammered out.
The Neuroskeptic commentary on a new paper by Chris Drummond about the ‘reproducibility movement’. Assuming that what really matters is the testability of a given hypothesis, how fundamental is reproducibility to science?
Scholars and political leaders describe increasing concerns about Chinese government influence over teaching and research in the U.S. and Australia.
PhD candidate Samantha Yammine is trying to break the stereotype that Scientists are cold, boring and out of touch with the hashtag #ScientistsWhoSelfie.
More than just an academic problem: on the repercussions of scienctific misconduct on the careers of honest and hard-working scientists.
Information for researchers who are interested in adopting an Electronic Lab Notebook system for documenting research and managing data.
Article enumerating five characteristics that a scientific code in computational science should possess.
Article showing that the perceived efficacy and efficiency of data reuse are strong predictors of reuse behavior, and that the perceived importance of data reuse corresponds to greater reuse.
Efforts to engage life science companies in open innovation have been hampered by the industry’s continued reticence to share. The result is shrinking pipelines, a wave of drug patent expirations ending in sudden drops in revenue, and poorly served public health.
Tips for grad students: the options for communicating your research beyond the dissertation or journal article are nearly endless and range from video games to comic books, but two of the easiest to work with are podcasts and infographics.
Strategy for gender balance and equal opportunities for women and men at the ETH Domain.
In a profession rewarding productivity in the form of papers and grants, sitting down to deeply read journal articles can feel like wasted time. Professor logs every paper she read over multiple years to gain insight on personal research practices.
Based on Crossref Data (2014-2017) - 42,339 Journals - 12 Million Articles - 36 Million Citations.
The results of the latest public opinion survey undertaken by Research!America showed that 67% of respondents had a positive image of science and indeed thought that public policy should be based on the best science available.
