Confusion over publisher's pioneering open-data rules
The Public Library of Science’s open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations.
Wellcome Trust wants research dreams to flourish
Director Jeremy Farrar on new plans to support more young scientists and ambitious projects, large and small.
The peer-review scam
When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing systems. Editors are trying to plug the holes.
What counts as an academic publication?
While The Conversation is built around a journalistic model, there is a big growth in online, open-access journals each with different approaches to peer review.
Incentives for researchers
Each country, scholarly field, and institution has developed responses to new scholarly communication systems, and those policies and responses influence the behavior of the scholars within those systems.
Counting the costs of OA
The estimated cost to UK research organisations of achieving compliance with OA mandates in 2013/2014.
How to reduce the administrative burden in research
How to reduce the administrative burden in research
CASRAI is an international non-profit dedicated to reducing the administrative burden on researchers and improving business intelligence capacity of research institutions and funders.
To some a citation is worth $3 per year
Everyone knows the peer review system is broken, but it’s difficult to break free of when incentives are aligned to maintain it.
OpenCon 2014
A playlist of all videos from OpenCon 2014, the Student and Early Career Conference on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.
Nature makes all articles free to view
Nature will make its articles back to 1869 free to share to be read online but not to be printed or downloaded.
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.
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