A survey of policies at major research funders found that there is room for more transparency in the process of grant review, which would strengthen the case for the efficiency of public spending on research.
In theory, science isn't just self-interested. We're all driven by curiosity and pure motives to strive together to unlock the secrets of the universe and solve problems.But it's for others to determine whether or not we've unlocked or solved anything.
Navigating the various requirements can be difficult and time consuming for authors. Every funding agency seems to have slightly different specifics to their OA policies and each paper has multiple authors with multiple funding agencies supporting their research.
An awesome list of (large-scale) public datasets on the Internet. (On-going collection)
Science 2.0 is a new approach to science that uses information-sharing and collaboration made possible by network technologies. This consultation gathers the opinions of a broad sample of interested parties from across the EU research landscape.
The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs..
The fall out from the STAP case is still being felt across Japan.
A peer reviewer's suggestion that two female researchers find "one or two male biologists" to co-author and help them strengthen a manuscript they had written and submitted to a journal has unleashed an avalanche of disbelief and disgust on Twitter today.
A crowdfunding campaign for a brain imaging study closed Monday after raising almost $80,000 toward a unique goal: the first functional magnetic resonance images of the brain on LSD.
Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scrutiny of every step, not merely the last one.
There’s no doubt political parties listen to think tanks. Using them to present academic work could help researchers penetrate the Westminster bubble.
This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access business model.
This collection brings together agenda-setting essays by policymakers, practitioners, scientists and scholars from across Europe.
Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm.
With so much new literature published each year, why are authors increasingly citing older papers?
You're in your 60s. Should you stay in the lab, or make way for the next generation?
[5]Royal Society Open Science aims to tackle the biases in traditional formats.
[8]F1000Workspace offers scientists a comprehensive suite of software and services to write and collaborate on papers, annotate and share references and articles, as well as easily discover and save relevant new articles.
An ambitious [11]effort to replicate 100 research findings in psychology ended last week - and the data look worrying.
Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature.
Intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn is expected.
in 2012 a new law ordered French public employers to offer stable employment to workers after 6 years of short-term contracts. It backfired.
The surprising power of the psychology of consensus.
In academia, strong hierarchies and nepotism compound problems associated with biases.
[24]This report presents the key findings, the main areas of discussion and the policy recommendations emerging from the consultation.
Understanding emerging areas of a multidisciplinary research field is crucial for researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders. For them a knowledge structure based on longitudinal bibliographic data can be an effective instrument.
Scientists receive much advice on how to write an effective paper that their colleagues will read, cite, and celebrate. Here we put this advice to the test, and measure the impact of certain features of academic writing on success, as proxied by citations.
