Senate panel approves public access bill
Senate panel approved a bill that would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer-reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.
RCUK responds to Burgess Review
Research Councils UK has published its response to the independent Review of the implementation of the RCUK policy on Open Access, chaired by Professor Sir Bob Burgess.
Artificial intelligence experts call for ban
More than 1,000 artificial intelligence researchers have signed an open letter issued that calls for a ban on autonomous weapons that select and engage targets without human intervention.
Google is scouring Ancestry.com to find out what's in your genes
Google is scouring Ancestry.com to find out what's in your genes
Google's biotech Calico will delve into the genetic database amassed by a unit of Ancestry.com to look for hereditary influences on longevity.
New Scopus article metrics
The new Scopus Article Metrics module includes new metrics based on four alternative metrics categories.
Experimental reproducibility has always been hard but cooperation could make it easier
Experimental reproducibility has always been hard but cooperation could make it easier
Is public money being thrown away on scientific research whose results won’t hold up to scrutiny?
Could students solve the irreproducibility crisis?
Scientists on social media debate a call to require PhD students to replicate research before they can graduate.
Half of biomedical research studies don't stand up to scrutiny and what we need to do about that
Half of biomedical research studies don't stand up to scrutiny and what we need to do about that
What if I told you that half of the studies published in scientific journals today - the ones upon which news coverage of medical advances is often based - won't hold up under scrutiny?
We discovered one of social science's biggest frauds. Here's what we learned.
What are the right lessons to draw from the rise in scientific retractions?
European science cloud on the horizon
Europe’s researchers have access to super-fast networks, common data storage facilities, and shared computing resources. The challenge now is to link them all together into a single science cloud.
A research, innovation and health rescue package for Greece
Harness Horizon 2020 to maximise the impact and benefit of EU funds, argue Mike Galsworthy and Martin McKee.
A difficult birth, a hopeful future
Kurt Deketelaere looks at the battles, and progress, of the Juncker Commission's first nine months, and sees more of both to come.
Toward a sustainable biomedical research enterprise: Finding consensus and implementing recommendations
Toward a sustainable biomedical research enterprise: Finding consensus and implementing recommendations
[32]Crowdfunding | Is crowdfunding a viable source of clinical trial research funding?
Is crowdfunding a viable source of clinical trial research funding?
[33]Misconduct | Males are overrepresented among life science researchers committing scientific misconduct
CORE - COnnecting REpositories
The mission of CORE is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.
Futsci: Future Science
Crowdfunding for Life Science Research. FutSci is an arena for public engagement in Biomedical and Bioscience Research, enabling members of the public to directly fund research.
Bioethics accused of doing more harm than good
[3]Opinion piece that calls for bioethics to ‘get out of the way’ prompts self-reflection among ethicists.
Top 10 universities for producing Nobel prizewinners
Times Higher Education analysis reveals the institutions with the most Nobel prizewinners this century.
Russian computer scientist fired from Dutch university for spying
Russian computer scientist fired from Dutch university for spying
A Russian computer scientist was fired from his job at a university in the Netherlands last year after Dutch intelligence officers warned he was spying for his home country.
New SoftwareX journal integrates software into scientific communication
Open access journal SoftwareX publishes cross-discipline, peer-reviewed software that has been developed during the research process.
Move over science, humanities' tech-savvy research is making waves
In the UK, in 2014, 46% of research grants awarded included non-academic partners, up from 38% the year before.
Scientists or beancounters: who decides what's best for UK science?
Consultants think they can make publicly funded research more efficient. But they’re in danger of ignoring existing analyses – and real-life experience.
Recruiting or academic poaching?
Hiring a few research stars uses up resources that might otherwise support a number of promising younger researchers.
How to value research that crosses more than one discipline
Many academics have internalised the pressure to police disciplinary boundaries, and keep their heads down and in their faculties.
Ending all-male panels
Microbiologists show it's possible to achieve gender equity in scholarly presentations
Let's face it: gender bias in academia is for real
Contrary to what some think, the battle against sexism in STEM has not been won, let alone reversed in favor of women.
How to Receive More Funding for Your Research? Get Connected to the Right People!
How to Receive More Funding for Your Research? Get Connected to the Right People!
In the quest for the research money it is more important how researchers build their collaboration network than what publications they produce and whether they are cited.
I Like, I Cite? Do Facebook Likes Predict the Impact of Scientific Work?
Facebook likes only predict citations in the psychological area but not in the non-psychological area of business or in the field of life sciences.
Do Nobel Laureates create prize-winning networks?
Laureates produce fewer papers but with higher average citations, more sole-authored papers both before and after winning the Prize, and have a lower number of coauthors across their entire careers than the matched group.
Making data count
Results from a survey on perceptions of data sharing, discovery, and metrics.
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