This study addresses the lack of transparency by leveraging Elsevier article metadata and provides the first publisher-level study of hybrid OA uptake and invoicing.
Lab and Study Protocols, two new article types at PLOS ONE that provide recognition for methods contributions, are now open for submission.
Replication, an important, uncommon, and misunderstood practice, is making a comeback in psychology.
The article discusses how the interpretation of 'performance' from a presentation using accurate but summary bibliometrics can change when iterative deconstruction and visualization of the same dataset is applied.
Data sharing was a core principle that led to the success of the Human Genome Project 20 years ago. Now scientists are struggling to keep information free.
Nearly half of all physics chairs report their department is under some level of threat, ranging from closure to budget cutbacks. Physicists offer perspectives on how faculty can respond proactively.
The MIT Libraries has negotiated two new open-access publishing agreements with the nonprofit publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) that allow all MIT authors to publish in all PLOS titles with no publishing fees.
Policy changes are needed to aid female scientists, emphasized by new data from a global survey of 20,000 Ph.D. holders.
The European Union celebrated 30 years of its Erasmus student exchange scheme on Tuesday, with its chief executive boasting the program had fostered cross-border romances that may have borne a million children.
Find backs theory that bluestones first stood at Waun Mawn before being dragged 140 miles to Wiltshire.
Open science means action. And the way we offer recognition and reward to academics and staff is key in bringing about the transition that we aim for.
The company has created a board that can overrule even Mark Zuckerberg. Soon it will decide whether to allow Trump back on Facebook.
The two initiatives have come together in their shared objective to help scientists and the public navigate the high volume of important new research.
Citations, downloads, indexing - a scientific report gets all this, even if it's rejected.
English departments rethink what to call themselves in light of how diverse they've become.
Preprint servers have become an indispensable part of scholarly publishing. The next step is learning how to embrace them.
A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them.
The average American spends almost one hour each day commuting to work, a number that adds up quickly.
The pandemic has shown that other ways of teaching and learning are possible
Covid human challenge study to start in weeks and will expose adults to virus in controlled environment.
European Space Agency aims to take on 26 people for missions to the Moon and eventually to Mars
The main objective of this paper is to empirically test whether the identification of highly-cited documents through Google Scholar is feasible and reliable.
Finding and reusing train-the-trainer materials in Social Sciences and Humanities: The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit The Training Discovery Toolkit is an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers of different disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can use to find materials for re-use in their own training activities.
