Why Are We Working So Hard to Open up Science? A Personal Story.
Discussing the negative impacts of inaccessible outcomes, unavailable data, and doctored results in advancing science in general, and that impact in very concrete personal terms.
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Discussing the negative impacts of inaccessible outcomes, unavailable data, and doctored results in advancing science in general, and that impact in very concrete personal terms.
Universities in New Zealand spent close to US$15 million on subscriptions to just four publishers in 2016, data that was only released following a request to the Ombudsman.
Only 14 percent of all engineers in the U.S. today are women, and the gender imbalance continues, or even worsens, when women enter the workforce.
The Journal Dashboards allow journals to see what people are saying about the papers they published, and allows readers to know which journals are particularly responsive to community feedback.
Offering seamless access to millions of open access research papers, enrich the collected data for text-mining and provide unique services to the research community.
The awarding of the grants comes as the Trump administration has proposed slashing federal science budgets and has dropped out of the Paris climate accord.
The infrastructure school, the public school, the measurement school, the democratic school, and the pragmatic school.
When statistical fudging is buried in the way data are sliced and diced after the fact or put through tortured analysis in a search for significant results.
Using a database of 750 cases of research fraud from around the world, professors examine fraud as a phenomenon, tracing its history and trajectory and looking at what can be done about it.
An report on US threats to academic freedom in science, particularly in the areas of international scholarly exchange and climate science.
Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
With the recent acquisition of bepress by Elsevier, we’ve been asked by a number of people if Open Journal Systems is next.
A surprising amount of publicly funded research data stays private. How could that change?
Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review
The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.
Everipedia, a two-year-old online encyclopedia, will become a decentralized, peer-to-peer, user-owned resource.
Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.
"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."
Proposing and testing a new indicator, the Mantel-Haenszel quotient.
How the Swiss education system (re)produces inequalities between women and men.