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All Take and No Give? Many Scientists Resist Shift to Open Data
Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own.
Unpaywall Scours the Web for Free Versions of Scientific Papers
The science publishing world is a complex one, but the pendulum is currently swinging away from the paywalled mega-journals of the last decade to a more open model.
Unpaywall.org
Read paywalled research papers for free. It's fast, free, and legal, powered by a database of millions of author-uploaded PDFs.
Composing Reproducible Manuscripts Using R Markdown
eLife now accepting manuscripts in R Markdow at innovation@elifesciences.org.
"Failure Is an Essential Part of Science"
Q&A with the author of a new book on reproducibility.
Why We Are Marching for Science
The vision for what is hoped to be the largest science advocacy event in history.
Funding Furore Shows the Need to Experiment with Peer Review
Funding Furore Shows the Need to Experiment with Peer Review
Canada’s experience with virtual panels shows that the status quo should be challenged, not accepted unthinkingly.
Important, Widely Used and Well-Reported Datasets
Because sharing underlying data is essential for accelerating scientific advances and maximizing the value of research.
Learning to Think Like a Computer
It’s obvious that computers have become indispensable problem-solving partners. But it’s suddenly not enough to be a fluent user of software interfaces. Understanding what lies behind the computer’s seeming magic now seems crucial.
OpenScienceDB.com
Open Science DB is a grassroots movement led by graduate students in science who aspire to make scientific research more accessible to the public.
Web’s Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wins the Nobel Prize of Computing
Berners-Lee says Web access is a human right—and the technology he created needs a rethink.
Can Pre-School Children Learn to do Science?
Science isn’t just about explosions. But can children as young as 3 understand what it’s really about?
The Distribution of P-values in Medical Research Articles Suggested Selective Reporting Associated with Statistical Significance
The Distribution of P-values in Medical Research Articles Suggested Selective Reporting Associated with Statistical Significance
Published P-values provide a window into the global enterprise of medical research. The aim of this study was to use the distribution of published P-values to estimate the relative frequencies of null and alternative hypotheses and to seek irregularities suggestive of publication bias.
Tim Berners-Lee Wins $1 million Turing Award
MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee has won the most prestigious honor in computer science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award. Often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize provided by Google.
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Plots a Radical Overhaul of His Creation
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Plots a Radical Overhaul of His Creation
Tim Berners-Lee just received the prestigious Turing Award that comes with a million dollars. Now he plots a radical overhaul of his creation.
A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices
When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming.
The Price of Publishing With GitHub, Figshare, G+, Etc
Discovering that there is a way to get out from the situation which keeps us locked into the legacy publishing system.
Academic Freedom, Under Threat in Europe
The latest threat to academic freedom is occurring in the heart of Europe, in Hungary.
The Most Beautiful Bacteria You'll Ever See
Tal Danino manipulates microorganisms in his lab to create eye-catching, colorful patterns.
Using Blockchain to Keep Public Data Public
How a public blockchain would fundamentally change the way we govern and do business.
Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too
Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.
Following the Success of the Learning Technologist, Is It Time for a Research Equivalent?
Following the Success of the Learning Technologist, Is It Time for a Research Equivalent?
With so many scholarly communications tools and technologies now available, how do academics decide which are most appropriate for their research?