Europe Set to Miss Flagship Open Access Target
Despite some progress, researchers are still reluctant to switch journals because of fears it could hinder their careers.
'I Can't Remember Feeling As Excited About the Future': Redesigning Space Travel for Women
'I Can't Remember Feeling As Excited About the Future': Redesigning Space Travel for Women
The drive for more women and greater diversity in the space sector will lead to new ideas and innovations, from spacesuits to toilets and beyond.
Open Science Conference 2022
Science Europe is organising a conference on Open Science. Institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their careers, and experts from the field are invited to this event to discuss whether Open Science is ready to become the norm in research, and how to ensure an equitable transition.
In a first, botanists vote to remove offensive plant names from hundreds of species
JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
The world's first peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed scientific video journal.
How the Virus Got Out
Scientists analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show why the most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven't been enough.
Who to Vaccinate First? A Peek at Decision-Making in a Pandemic
Faced with the challenge of advising the World Health Organization on who should be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, an advisory group used an approach it hadn't tried before.
New US Plan for 'AI in Science' Could Change How Research is Done, for Better or Worse
New US Plan for 'AI in Science' Could Change How Research is Done, for Better or Worse
A new Trump administration plan to expand the use of artificial intelligence in US science could boost research productivity. But, it also highlights a need for more global cooperation in AI development.
Want to get your research noticed by politicians?
There’s no doubt political parties listen to think tanks. Using them to present academic work could help researchers penetrate the Westminster bubble.
Elizabeth Warren demands open access to clinical trial data
Senator Elizabeth Warren called on researchers to make public data they collect while testing drugs and medical devices on patients. Others disagree.
Binder 2.0: Share Your Interactive Research Environment
The Project Jupyter team shares its reboot of Binder, a tool allowing researchers to make their GitHub repositories executable by others.
Confusion over publisher's rules
PLOS open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations.
Transforming Research, in the Face of Uncertainty, Scarcity, and Bias
Last week's Transforming Research conference in Baltimore, MD, gathered a range of speakers across the academic and professional spectrum.
Political Battles Force a Go-slow in EU Budget Negotiations
Commission concedes it will need more time to resolve long-term budget negotiations – but it remains committed to its plan boosting R&D subsidies
Huge Study Documents Gender Gap in Chemistry Publishing
Analysis finds female-led papers are more likely to be rejected, and less likely to be cited, than those with male corresponding authors.
Our Bauhaus Coronavirus Cover
The recent nature issue publishes findings from leading researchers on an urgent quest for a vaccine against SARS-Cov-2. Here ist how the cover image was created, drawing on aspects of Bauhaus artist Paul Klee’s famous notebooks to reimagine the quest for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
Researcher Roles in Collaborative Governance Interventions
Researcher Roles in Collaborative Governance Interventions
While societies are facing complex problems involving multiple stakeholders and interdependencies, interest in collaborative governance as a potential solution is rising.
Trump's Attack on US Universities is an Attack on All Universities
This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most influential science policy papers ever published: "Science: the Endless Frontier," a report by presidential advisor Vannevar Bush that served as the blueprint for the post-WWII rise of the US as the world's leader in scientific research, innovation and education. Bush famously wrote:
Metrics market
Measures of research impact are improving, but universities should be wary of their limits.
Accounting for Impact? How the Impact Factor is shaping research and what this means for knowledge production.
Accounting for Impact? How the Impact Factor is shaping research and what this means for knowledge production.
Why does the impact factor continue to play such a consequential role in academia? Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijcke look at how considerations of the metric enter in from early stages of research…
Deal Impasse Severs Elsevier Access for Some German Universities
As talks with the publisher stall, researchers in the country weigh whether they can cope without a deal
National Goals and Guidelines for Open Access to Research Articles
The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles.
E.P.A. Announces a New Rule. One Likely Effect: Less Science in Policymaking
The agency plans to publish a new regulation Tuesday that would restrict the kinds of scientific studies the agency can use when it develops policies.
Nobelist: Toughest, Not Most Talented, Stay in Academia
Brian Schmidt says academia is losing brightest researchers because they cannot endure 'intolerable' precarity throughout their thirties
A Diverse View of Science to Catalyse Change
Valuing diversity leads to scientific excellence, the progress of science and, most importantly, it is simply the right thing to do. We must value diversity not only in words, but also in actions.
Enabling Trustable, Transparent, and Efficient Submission and Review in an Era of Digital Transformation
Enabling Trustable, Transparent, and Efficient Submission and Review in an Era of Digital Transformation
Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.
It's not only peer-reviewed, it's reproducible!
Peer review is one of the oldest and most respected instruments of quality control in science and research. Peer review means that a paper is evaluated by a number of experts on the topic of the article (the peers). The criteria may vary, but most of the time they include methodological and technical soundness, scientific relevance, and presentation.
Can peer review be improved?
Scientific publishing is under the spotlight at the moment. Is it time for change?
Working Group on Gender Balance
Women and men are equally able to perform excellent frontier research. This is the view of ERC Scientific Council. Each process within the ERC - from creating awareness about the ERC to signing of grant agreements – is designed to give equal opportunities to men and women. To monitor gender balance in ERC calls, in 2008, the ERC set up a dedicated working group.
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