Does Teacher Diversity Matter in Student Learning?
Research shows that students, especially boys, benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women.
Role Models Tell Girls That STEM’s for Them in New Campaign
The Ad Council - along with G.E., Google, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon - is trying to encourage girls ages 11 to 15 to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math.
Response to Plan S from Academic Researchers: Unethical, Too Risky!
Will Plan S deprive researchers of quality journal venues and of international collaborative opportunities, while disadvantaging scientists whose research budgets preclude paying and playing in this OA league?
Navigating the Path to a Biomedical Science Career
Study concludes that relationships with faculty, particularly the mentor advisor, are essential to the opportunities available to these young career researchers and to the career paths they choose.
MEPs Vote to Grant Researchers Greater Freedom to Text and Data Mine
Researchers gain more access to hi-tech research tool, but data start-ups warn the narrow rules create "a backseat for Europe's innovators".
S Is for Seismic Shift
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, which represents the organisations most directly affected financially, was one voice of caution, saying it is "vital" that researchers have the freedom to publish where they choose.
Africa Should Set Own Standards of Research Excellence
'Most highly cited' criterion is not the most appropriate.
NIH Investigating Whether U.S. Scientists Are Sharing Ideas with Foreign Governments
NIH Investigating Whether U.S. Scientists Are Sharing Ideas with Foreign Governments
Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.
Gender Quotas and Targets Would Speed up Progress on Gender Equity in Academia
Scientific Publishing Is a Rip-Off. We Fund the Research - It Should Be Free
Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves, says George Monbiot.
The Canadian Association of University Teachers Releases Results of First National Survey of Contract Academic Staff
Can Lifestyle Preferences Help Explain the Persistent Gender Gap in Academia?
With the European Parliament Vote on the Copyright Directive, the Internet Lost - for Now
With the European Parliament Vote on the Copyright Directive, the Internet Lost - for Now
The Parliament voted in favor of almost all provisions that extend more rights to the establishment copyright industries while failing to protect users and new creators online.
Some Scientists Publish More Than 70 Papers a Year. Here's How - and Why - They Do It
Some Scientists Publish More Than 70 Papers a Year. Here's How - and Why - They Do It
Science chats with statistician John Ioannidis about "hyperprolific" authors.
If You’ve Had Anesthesia, You Can Likely Thank This Veterinarian Who Just Won a Top Science Prize
Even Progressive Academics Can Be Racist. I've Experienced It Firsthand.
They refuse to see me as a member of the professional and intellectual community.
Women in Science Take on Sexual Harassment
With weapons ranging from Title IX complaints to online petitions to creating new policies for federally funded agencies, #MeToo has entered the research lab.
Thousands of Scientists Publish a Paper Every Five Days
To highlight uncertain norms in authorship, John P. A. Ioannidis, Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack identified the most prolific scientists of recent years.
Compliance with Requirement to Report Results on the EU Clinical Trials Register: Cohort Study and Web Resource
Compliance with Requirement to Report Results on the EU Clinical Trials Register: Cohort Study and Web Resource
Study finds that compliance with the European Commission requirement for all trials to post results on to the EUCTR within 12 months of completion has been poor, with half of all trials non-compliant.
COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1
COUNTER and members of the Make Data Count team (California Digital Library, DataCite, and DataONE) collaborated in drafting the Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1.
Half of European Clinical Trials Haven’t Reported Results
EU rules say clinical trial results must be reported onto the EU register for every trial there within 12 months of the end of the trial, yet no one has ever been sanctioned for breaking the European rules. European academic institutes are lagging far behind companies in complying with the reporting rules.
Universities Are Worse Than Drug Companies at Reporting Clinical Trial Results
Universities Are Worse Than Drug Companies at Reporting Clinical Trial Results
Almost 90% of academic clinical trials are not reported promptly to European registry.
New Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
The new version of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity will be published today.
Inside the Fight for Open-Access Research
Academic publishers have some of the highest profit margins in the world. In the digital age, researchers are starting to wonder whether publishers actually deserve this much money.
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