A Thankless Job That One Firm Wants to Change
Publons wants scientists to be rewarded for assessing others’ work.
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Visualize Data Instantly with Machine Learning
Today we’re rolling out new features in Sheets that make it even easier for you to visualize and share your data, and find insights your teams can act on.
Diamond Open Access, Societies and Mission
In this article Robert Harington assesses the Diamond open access model for society journal publishing.
Helping Scientists Learn To Talk To The Rest Of Us
A new book by actor Alan Alda is all about communication — and miscommunication — between doctors, scientists and civilians.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing
Striking a Balance: Embracing Change While Preserving Tradition in Scholarly Communications
Predicting the Paper of the Future
How academic publishing may change in the years to come.
Crowd-Based Peer Review Can Be Good and Fast
Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.
Zenodo Now Supports DOI Versioning
This feature enables users to update the record’s files after they have been made public and researchers to easily cite either specific versions of a record or to cite, via a top-level DOI, all the versions of a record.
Towards Greater Reproducibility for Life-Sciences Research in Nature
Nature will publish more details on experiments described in life-sciences papers.
Website Flags Wrongly Paywalled Papers
Thousands of open access papers have mistakenly asked readers to pay access fees, but publishers are correcting the errors.
NIH Finds Using Anonymous Proposals to Test for Bias is Harder than it Looks
NIH Finds Using Anonymous Proposals to Test for Bias is Harder than it Looks
Race-blind reviews very difficult and may not help, researchers say
Pay-to-View Blacklist of Predatory Journals Set to Launch
Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.
Welcome to eLife 2.0
We’re moving the online journal forward, and we hope you’ll join us on our journey.
Science Needs a Solution for the Temptation of Positive Results
A few years back, scientists at the biotechnology company Amgen set out to replicate 53 landmark studies that argued for new approaches to treat cancers using both existing and new molecules. They were able to replicate the findings of the original research only 11 percent of the time.
How Much Citation Manipulation Is Acceptable?
Is citation manipulation a moral problem or an accounting problem?
The Non-Scientist’s Guide to Reading and Understanding a Scientific Paper
The right approach and a little extra effort will help improve your scientific literacy.
Female Authors Get Fewer Citations in Astronomy
Papers with female first authors receive 10% fewer citations than comparable work published by men, according to a new study
Publicity or Perish: Finding the Balance in Science Communication
Publicity or Perish: Finding the Balance in Science Communication
The time that you’re absolutely sick of saying it is about the time that your target audience has heard it for the first time.
Research Transparency: 5 Questions About Open Science Answered
Partly in response to the so-called 'reproducibility crisis' in science, researchers are embracing a set of practices that aim to make the whole endeavor more transparent, more reliable – and better.
Crowd-Based Peer Review Can Be Good and Fast
Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.
Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields – but how do we make sure it behaves morally?
The Future Of Libraries Is Collaborative, Robotic, And Participatory
The Future Of Libraries Is Collaborative, Robotic, And Participatory
Libraries can survive these times of technological upheaval, but they’re going to have to change–and fast.
Software Simplified
Containerization technology takes the hassle out of setting up software and can boost the reproducibility of data-driven research.
5th World Conference on Research Integrity
May 28-31, 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
How Women Mentors Make a Difference in Engineering
They act as a “social vaccine” that protects female students against negative stereotypes and gives them a sense of belonging.
Unattractive People Are Seen As Better Scientists
Good looking, sociable people don’t make good scientists, according to popular stereotypes.
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