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.
Open Library of Humanities submission system
The Open Library of Humanities is now open for submissions.
Harsh reality
Two reports highlight the plight of postdocs on both sides of the pond aiming for academia and how it might threathen research integrety.
Julia Goodfellow to be first female UUK president
Dame Julia Goodfellow will become the first ever woman to lead Universities UK (UUK), after being named its next president.
Professors take action
February 9 was a shock for many scientists in Switzerland. Now they start to speak up.
How sociologists made themselves irrelevant
In the effort to keep ourselves academically pure, we’ve also become largely irrelevant in molding the most important social enterprises of our era.
Bringing big data to public health
Separating the true signal from the gigantic amount of noise is neither easy nor straightforward, but it is a challenge that must be tackled if information is ever to be translated into societal well-being.
The mysterious case of the bouncing impact factor
Research must be reliable and publication is part of our quality control system. Scientific articles get reviewed by peers and they get screened by editors. Reviewers ideally help improve the project and its presentation, and editors ideally select the best papers to publish.
Position papers collection
A selection of position papers submitted by stakeholders, to be presented at the workshops.
A free collaborative knowledgebase
A free collaborative knowledgebase
Unnoticed by most of its readers, Wikipedia continues to undergo dramatic changes, as its sister project Wikidata introduces a new multilingual "Wikipedia for data" to manage the factual information of the popular online encyclopedia.
The data on diversity
People working together can achieve more than they can alone; this is a fundamental principle upon which organizations are founded.
Grant application review
On the legitimacy of Peer Review and transparency policies at funding agencies.
Impact or illusion?
Universities’ performance worldwide is increasingly being measured using rankings. This project is the first pan-European study of the impact and influence of rankings on European higher education institutions.
Shaping the future of research
Proceedings of participant-driven workshops and the organizers’ synthesis of the outcomes of a recent symposium for early career researchers.
A changing research landscape
Bibliometrics has become an integral part of research quality evaluation and has been changing the practice of research.
Where does the science hype come from?
New research shows that most exaggeration in health-related science news is already present in the press releases issued by universities.
Switzerland ranks only 24th
The state of government open data across the globe in 2014. Switzerland has space for improvement.
Social Tech Guide
Social Tech Guide
The Social Tech Guide aims to celebrate, inspire and accelerate the use of digital technology as a tool for significant social change.
Rockefeller University expands
Billionaire David Rockefeller, along with the foundation of his longtime friend, the late Greek shipping billionaire Stavros Niarchos, have pledged $150 million to expand the university founded by Rockefeller’s grandfather.
Die EU darf nicht bei der Forschung sparen
Die EU will das Geld für ihr milliardenschweres Investitionsprogramm aus dem Forschungsbudget entnehmen. Besser als ein kreditfinanziertes Investitionsprogramm wäre es, eine EU-weite Steuererleichterung für Forschungs- und Innovationstätigkeiten der Privatwirtschaft einzuführen.
The direction of travel in scholarly publishing
Recent moves by established journals to make research papers freely available signpost the direction of travel in academic publishing
Fighting to protect its commenters anonymity
Opinion article by the founders of PubPeer.com on right to anonymity.
Paradigms and prejudice
Able women who set out to make academic careers in math-intensive fields of science have as good a chance of succeeding as men today, keeping in mind that the chances don’t appear great for anyone of either gender.
Overcoming unconscious gender bias in science evaluation
Never thought of being gender biased when performing evaluations? Take the implicit association test.
Why evaluating scientists by grant income is stupid
“In the modern British university, it is not that funding is sought in order to carry out research, but that research projects are formulated in order to get funding.”
Uber for experiments
A startup enables researchers to tap labs worldwide to conduct experiments on their behalf
The culture of scientific research
The findings of a series of surveys exploring the culture of scientific research in the UK. It also contains a list of recommendations for funding bodies.
Biomedical science PhD career interest patterns by race/ethnicity and gender
It is unclear whether or how the career preferences of women and underrepresented minority scientists change in manners distinct from their better-represented peers.
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