Mistakes Happen in Research Papers. But Corrections Often Don't
A culture of fear around corrections and retractions is hampering efforts to maintain the integrity of scientific research.
Increasing Open Access Publications Serves Publishers' Commercial Interests
Increasing Open Access Publications Serves Publishers' Commercial Interests
Open access publishing still profits publishers, with little added value for researchers.
Module 1 of the Open Science MOOC: Open Principles
This is Module 1 of the Open Science MOOC. This course is totally SELF-PACED, meaning it can be completed whenever you want and in your own time. Rationale: To innovate in a field frequently implies moving against prevailing trends and cultural inertia. Open Science is no different. No matter how convinced you are, you will come across resistance from peers and colleagues, and the best defence is strong personal conviction that what you are doing may not be perfect now, but is the right decision in the long run. This module will introduce the guiding principles of the 'open movement', the different actors involved, and the impact that they are having. Learning outcomes You will be able to describe the ethical, legal, social, economic, and research impact arguments for and against Open Science. After deciding which platforms/tools/services are most useful for themselves and their community, you will develop a personal profile for showcasing your research profile and outputs. After reflecting on the status of Open Science within your research group or lab, you will devise concrete ways to locally improve open practices. Using the guidelines published by their research laboratories, departments, or institutes, you will identify the policies for career progression and assessment, publishing and open access, data sharing, and intellectual property. Resources: Open Principles There are two tasks that are optional as part of this module: Defining how Open Science affects you. Developing your digital researcher profile. These tasks are OPTIONAL. You do NOT need to complete them in order to finish this module. They are, however, strongly recommended still. To complete this module, the only thing you need to do is complete the quiz! Once you have done that, you get this cool certificate to proudly display (the real one is bigger and nicer). Citation: We strongly encourage maximal sharing, re-use, and remixing of all content available for this module. It is also openly-licensed (CC0 or CC-BY at source) and copyright free as such. To cite this work, please use: Jon Tennant; Bruce Caron; Jo Havemann; Samuel Guay; Julien Colomb; Eva Lantsoght; Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra; Katharina Kriegel; Justin Sègbédji Ahinon; Cooper Smout & Gareth O'Neill. (2019, March 16). OpenScienceMOOC/Module-1-Open-Principles 2.0.0 (Version 2.0.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2595951 Other live modules: Module 5: Open Research Software and Open Source
EOSC Portal User Survey
The Horizon 2020 project EOSC Enhance is launching an open survey targeting the entire EOSC community, to look more closely at individuals who create EOSC, understand who they are, where they come from and, most importantly, what they need in their everyday (research) activities.
Nature Index Annual Tables 2022: China's Research Spending Pays off
Experts say the country's strong scientific performance is likely to be sustained in the coming years.
Science Can Drive Development and Unity in Africa - As It Does in the US and Europe
Norway Urges Students to Avoid UK Universities in Brexit Warning
Higher education minister says Norwegians should study in countries other than Britain.
Tackling the Global Misinformation Crisis One Reference, One Librarian at a Time
Personal Genome Project
Personal Genome Project
Sharing data is critical to scientific progress, but has been hampered by traditional research practices-our approach is to invite willing participants to publicly share their personal data for the greater good.
OpenUP Policy Recommendations
OpenUP Hub is an open, dynamic and collaborative knowledge environment that systematically captures, organizes and categorizes research outcomes, best practices, tools and guidelines. Explore the given material about opening up the review-dissemination-assessment phases of the research lifecycle and practices to support the transition to a more open and gender sensitive research environment.
Accelerating Scholarly Communication: The Transformative Role of Preprints
Study explores the place of preprints in the research lifecycle from the points of view of researchers, research performing organisations, research funding organisations and preprint servers/service providers.
'Jet Fighter' Godwit Breaks World Record for Non-stop Bird Flight
Bar-tailed godwit flies more than 12,000km from Alaska to New Zealand in 11 days.
Career Funding: the Researcher's Overall Performance Counts
Career Funding: the Researcher's Overall Performance Counts
The SNSF has adopted the DORA recommendations in its career funding schemes and adapted some other criteria. This will make the selection process even fairer and more inclusive of re-searchers with diverse career paths.
How Misconduct Helped Psychological Science to Thrive
How Misconduct Helped Psychological Science to Thrive
Grass-roots action against bad behaviour has spurred reform - and should keep going.
How FAIR Data Are Helping to Build Trust in Science
The FAIR guidelines laid a solid foundation for ensuring data accessibility and reproducibility. A decade on, researchers are thinking beyond them.
The Future of OA Books - White Paper
A global Springer Nature survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into attitudes towards open access.
COVID-19 Highlights the Need for EOSC
The future European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) can be the answer to societal challenges as they emerge. The goal of EOSC is to open up all scientific data and publications and combine the results to drive new discoveries and tackle key societal challenges.
Responding to the Call of Home
Why some scientists choose to forgo promising careers abroad to return to their countries of birth.
Scientists Urge Open Sharing of Coronavirus Genome Data
Other researchers say that restrictions at the largest SARS-CoV-2 genome platform encourage fast sharing while protecting data providers' rights.
The Leiden Ranking Goes Beyond Ranking
Today the CWTS Leiden Ranking and the INORMS More Than Our Rank initiative announce a new partnership, aimed at highlighting the accomplishments of universities beyond what is captured in university rankings.
Building Bridges Between Knowledge Production and Policy Decision-making
Building Bridges Between Knowledge Production and Policy Decision-making
Last May, scientists, political figures and members of Senegalese civil society met in Dakar to discuss the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems. At the core of the discussions was the national structuring of science-policy interfaces, spaces for exchange between two worlds that sometimes struggle to agree. This provided an opportunity to talk with Astou Camara, a researcher at the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA), about the need to more effectively connect research and policy.
CRISPR Inventor Feng Zhang Calls for Moratorium on Gene-edited Babies
A leading scientist wants Chinese researchers to halt a project to create genetically modified children.
Naomi Oreskes: 'Discrediting Science is a Political Strategy'
The Harvard professor on science and scepticism - and why climate deniers have run out of excuses.
Discrimination Still Plagues Science
Employers need to do more to improve workplace diversity, equity and inclusion, a Nature survey finds.
The Ecosystem: The Race is on to Choose Europe's Regional Innovation Valleys
The European Commission plans to designate 100 locations across Europe as Regional Innovation Valleys, in a bid to strengthen innovation in EU priority areas and encourage collaboration between more and less advanced regions.
The Allure of the Journal Impact Factor Holds Firm, Despite Its Flaws
The Allure of the Journal Impact Factor Holds Firm, Despite Its Flaws
Many researchers still see the journal impact factor (JIF) as a key metric for promotions and tenure, despite concerns that it’s a flawed measure of a researcher’s value.
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