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Bo Rothstein quits Blavatnik School of Government post after learning that patron is a major financial backer of US president.
A few examples that demonstrate how universities design their open science guides.
I doubt that twitter has made my academic papers directly more impactful, but does that stop me tweeting about my group’s work? No way.
Dissemin detects papers behind pay-walls and invites their authors to upload them in one click to an open repository.
Bibliometrics for the 20 highest performing authors in Multidisciplinary Science.
Our vision for the British Library is that research data are as integrated into our collections, research and services as text is today. The
Cultural differences between industry and academia can create or increase difficulties in reproducing research findings.
Virtual sharing and equipment loans are making access to vital research tools easier.
A new study confirms what many already know: Exxon for years sowed uncertainty and doubt about climate change in the public. Should scientists reject certain funding sources?
Over the last 2 years more than 150 German libraries, universities, and research institutes have formed a united front trying to force academic publishers into a new way of doing business.
Reviewing is an implicit part of vaguely-defined jobs.
A unified definition of open peer review – an author and reviewer in conversation
For the record, I do peer reviews! For free!
The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles.
New study casts doubts on whether more information about science can really change someone's mind.
Consortium hopes to make all German-authored papers free to read by paying annual fee.
Enthusiasm for using Twitter as a source of data in the social sciences extends to measuring the impact of research with Twitter data being a key component in the new altmetrics approach.
The recent attempt by China to censor scholarship points to a growing set of challenges in information dissemination. Blaming the publisher obscures these issues.
A historian recounts the National Institutes of Health's 1960s pilot test of exchanging unreviewed manuscripts, and how publishers killed it.
New preprint services could bring niche scientific communities into the open.
An open-source browser extension for linking, curating and sharing scientific insights across publishers.
Companies get better results when they ease up on the control tactics. It’s more effective to engage managers in solving the problem, expose them to people from different groups, and encourage social accountability for change.
Rather than repealing or replacing the impact factor, its producers should rename it to reflect its intended function more accurately.