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Social media is not only a way for authors and publishers to disseminate research findings, it’s also increasingly being used by researchers to discover and read scientific content.
Papr allows you to rate abstracts and find Twitter users who share your interests.
A move into industry after a PhD may not bring immediate financial rewards, but it pays to know your strengths.
His experiences on a panel reviewing Canadian grant allocation has convinced Jonathan Grant that the evidence base for current practice needs serious reinforcement.
Flood of online manuscripts generates confusion about terms for distribution and reuse.
Paper providing a vision transcending the current publishing paradigm.
Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.
Jeffrey Beall says he faced 'intense pressure' from the University of Colorado Denver and feared losing his job
Asking the scientific system to fix itself from the bottom up could place an unacceptable burden on junior scientists.
Louis Pasteur was a scientific giant of the nineteenth century, but, as Joseph Gal asks, was his most famouscontribution to the understanding of chemistry — chirality — influenced more by his artistic talents?
Once again, the FWF is making the publication costs spent in 2016 (esp. for Open Access) publically available.
The OA Journal Starter Kit has all the information you'll need to get a new open access journal up and running.
A significant weight is linked to ‘impact points’ – a similar metric to the widely discredited journal impact factor.
How can we make the most of open practices in research, education and skills?
Introducing Wide-Open, a system that identifies large number of overdue datasets.
Orpington MP keeps role in Theresa May's post-election reshuffle
Online platform aims to make peer review faster, unbiased and less of a burden on researchers
Jeffrey Beall is back after a five-month silence, with criticism for universities as well as fake publishers.
Study underway tests whether black and women applicants for NIH grants face discrimination.
Or why we should choose what to fund at random.
Plagiarism. Cheating. Lying. Should these scientists get a second chance?
Bastian Greshake has analysed the full Sci-Hub corpus and found that articles are being downloaded from all over the world, more recently published papers are among the most requested, and there is a marked overrepresentation of requested articles from journals publishing on chemistry.
