Toolkits for Equity
While a growing awareness of racial disparities has resulted in a groundswell of support for inclusivity in scholarly publishing, the resulting initiatives would be more effective if professional associations were able to provide training materials to help transform organizational cultures.
Better Science Communication is Needed to Deliver the Green Transition
Better Science Communication is Needed to Deliver the Green Transition
To deliver the transition to a carbon-neutral economy, researchers must rethink funding, global cooperation and how they communicate with policymakers.
The evolving guide on how the internet is changing research, collaboration and scholarly publishing
The evolving guide on how the internet is changing research, collaboration and scholarly publishing
This book will give researchers, scientists, decision makers, politicians, and stakeholders an overview on the basics, the tools, and the vision behind the current changes we see in the field of knowledge creation.
Italian scientists protest ’serious neglect’ of research
Researchers gathered at Sapienza University of Rome last week to discuss the cuts in Italy's research budget.
Find Your Voice
Technology and practice can help shy and introverted researchers to succeed when reticence is risky.
Peer Review Has Some Problems - but the Science Community Is Working on It
Key areas of focus for tweaking peer review include making journal editors more directive in the process, rewarding reviewers, and improving accountability of editors, reviewers and authors.
Publishers Fail to Stem Tide of Illicit ResearchGate Uploads
Berlin-based academic network faces court action in US and Germany, and lost more than €12 million (£10.7 million) in 2017, accounts show.
The Case for Open Access
Providing open access to digitised collections has spurred creativity and research worldwide - so why are the UK's flagship museums so slow on the uptake?
Portugal Approaches Gender Parity in Research
Women represent nearly 50% of active scientific authors in Portugal. Over the past two decades, the country achieved the largest percentage increase in the EU in women's representation - an impressive nine percentage points, putting Portugal at the leading edge of closing the gender gap in research.
How To Be an Academic in the Twenty-First Century
Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties.
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
How several free software tools have fundamentally upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire workflow more transparent and streamlined.
Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science Collaborate on Annotation
Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science Collaborate on Annotation
To enable peer feedback, collaboration and transparency in scientific research practices, Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science (COS) are announcing a new partnership to bring open annotation to Open Science Framework (OSF) Preprints and the 17 community preprint servers hosted on OSF.
In the Coronavirus Pandemic, We're Making Decisions Without Reliable Data
Countermeasures like social distancing may help stop the spread of Covid-19. But how can policymakers tell if they are doing more good than harm? Data!
How to Find Meaning in Your Science Career: Six Expert Tips
Philosophers, social scientists and a Nobel-prizewinning economist on how researchers can get satisfaction from their work - and make a difference to the world.
Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science
Scientific papers typically have a finite lifetime. Previous studies pointed out the existence of a few blatant exceptions: papers whose relevance has not been recognized for decades, but then suddenly become highly influential and cited. This study investigates how common Sleeping Beauties are in science.
Science is Changing, Can I Change Too?
Science is a big thing, but changing it relies on simple decisions made by individual researchers.
Initiative for Open Citations
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.
Busting Text Data Mining Myths & Misunderstandings
A broad TDM Exception is important for everyone (not just researchers), would boost Europe’s economy and doesn’t mean that publishers would lose money.
Feedback to Coalition S on Plan S Implementation Guidelines
An argument that Coalition members should favour, both in words and via their spending decisions, community-controlled, no-author-fee journals over commercially owned journals charging APCs, in order to give due consideration to the non-commercial elements of the scholarly publishing ecosystem.
EU Suspends Research Payments to Russian Partners
The European Commission has suspended payments to Russian institutions involved in EU-funded research and innovation projects. In addition, the EU will not launch any new cooperation projects with Russian universities, research institutes and companies.
What if universities had to agree to refund grants whenever there was a retraction?
Leonid Schneider argues for a new way to ensure accountability for publicly funded research. It has become clear that scientific dishonesty is rarely sanctioned.
PREreview: A Preprint Journal Club
Encouraging researchers to post their outputs as preprints.
First Sun-dimming Experiment Will Test a Way to Cool Earth
Researchers plan to spray sunlight-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, an approach that could ultimately be used to quickly lower the planet's temperature.
Make Code Accessible with These Cloud Services
Container platforms let researchers run each other's software - and check the results.
Data, Measurement and Empirical Methods in the Science of Science - Nature Human Behaviour
Data, Measurement and Empirical Methods in the Science of Science - Nature Human Behaviour
Liu and coauthors review the major data sources, measures and analysis methods in the science of science, discussing how recent developments in these fields can help researchers to better predict science-making outcomes and design better science policies.
How Google Science could transform academic publishing
Google is allegedly working on a free, open access platform for the research, collaboration and publishing of peer-reviewed scientific journals. At least, that is apparently what one individual wants us to believe.
Mystery as Controversial List of Predatory Publishers Disappears
A popular blog that lists “potential, possible, or probable predatory” publishers and journals has disappeared, but it is not clear why.
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