Is the 2015 Nobel Prize a turning point for traditional Chinese medicine?
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to a researcher who spent her entire career researching traditional Chinese medicine...
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[19]PubPeer is a bit like an extended journal club; not a bad idea to promote communication among scientists, you might think, so why the controversy?
Are you actually volunteering your time?
To me, volunteering your time means forgoing payment for your time. But how is this affected when someone else is cashing in on your time instead?
Homo naledi fossil discovery a triumph for open access and education
The lead paper describing Homo naledi has been viewed more than 170,000 times in one week.
New ways of publishing research in the digital age
A massive increase in the power of digital technology over the past decade allows us today to publish any article, blog post or tweet in a matter of seconds.
Much more than just genetics
Much more than just genetics
Is "Precision Medicine" another case of rebranding, as chemistry has morphed into nanotech?
Does the peer review model affect the quality of peer review?
BMC editors show that the quality of peer review is slightly higher in BMC Infectious Diseases that operates open peer review compared to BMC Microbiology operating single-blind peer review.
Optimizing the nation's investment in academic research
A new regulatory framework for the 21st century.
Making open science a reality
A OECD Report on the benefits and the action required to make open science a reality.
OLH Launches
The Open Library of Humanities launches with seven journals and the support of 99 institutions.
Global competitiveness report 2015-2016
Switzerland named world’s most competitive economy, again, for the seventh year in a row.
Precision Medicine Initiative moves forward
The NIH Advisory Committee to the Director issued recommendations laying out a blueprint for the Obama Administration's precision medicine initiative, including the framework for building a large-scale, national research cohort of 1 million or more Americans.
Socientize as e-infrastructure through technology, innovation and creativity
Citizen science is an innovative concept to involve the general public in scientific processes.
Putting credit back into the hands of researchers
GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data.
The Open Scholarship Initiative: the future of global scholarly publishing
A 10-year series of annual meetings where high-level stakeholder representatives work together to improve the future of how research information gets published, shared and accessed.
Crossref to Auto-Update ORCID Records
Authors with an ORCID iD will be able to have Crossref automatically push information about their published work to their ORCID record.
Equality: we are definitely not there yet
The League of European Research Universities calls for leadership on gender equality issues.
World University Rankings 2015-2016
The world dominance of US universities has further waned in the THE World University Rankings 2015-2016. ETHZ is 9th.
The case for abolishing patents (yes, all of them)
Would we be possibly be better off without any patents at all?
Crowdsourcing a cancer drug: how the public can bring a new (old) drug to trial. ecancer - News
Crowdsourcing a cancer drug: how the public can bring a new (old) drug to trial. ecancer - News
Excellence or non-sense
Excellence or non-sense
What does 'excellence' really mean?
Ignoring science isn't a Republican problem. It's an American problem.
"I'm not a scientist." How many times have you heard that lately from politicians who are trying to duck questions about important scientific topics like climate change and vaccines?
Make academic job advertisements fair to all
Too many university posts are given to men without proper competition.
Gender contributes to personal research funding success in The Netherlands
Study reveals gender bias favoring male applicants over female applicants in the prioritization of their “quality of researcher” evaluations and success rates.
Quotas: an analysis of options for their use
The potential benefits and challenges that could arise from the use of quotas as one way to achieve better gender balance in academia.
For what it’s worth – the open peer review landscape
The current and future issues around post-publication open peer review and the protagonists and platforms that encourage open peer review, pre-and post-publication.
The evolution of impact indicators: from bibliometrics to altmetrics
Ebook covering key insights about traditional and alternative research impact indicators.
How PowerPoint is killing critical thought
The bullet 'pointization' of information is making us stupid and irresponsible.
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