rOpenSci, whose mission is to develop and maintain sustainable software tools that allow researchers to access, visualize, document, and publish open data on the Web, has been awarded a grant of nearly $2.9 million over 3 years from The Helmsley Charitable Trust.
Though several large online repositories of free books and academic articles were pulled offline, they are not planning to cease their activities and are continuing their operations through alternative domains and on the dark web.
Written agreements between parties in research collaborations are not a sign of a lack of faith.
At first glance the patriarchy appears to be thriving. Yet there is plenty of cause for concern. Men cluster at the bottom as well as the top.
The web had been created to bring academics together; now it offered them a way of sharing their research online for free.
Public funding made available for research after the WWII were expected to lead to industrial development, economic growth, and a general improvement of living standards. Yet, this model has been questioned for a few year.
It is not an insult when others try to replicate our research—it is standard science
Peer-review is neither reliable, fair, nor a valid basis for predicting 'impact': as quality control, peer-review is not fit for purpose.
A paper proposing an index (namely, the L-index) that does not depend on the number of publications, accounts for different co-author contributions and age of publications, and scales from 0.0 to 9.9.
OpenCon2015 posters and talks on innovations in science communication and open science.
Meta Research Innovation Center at Stanford conference 2015 presentations on data transparency, open science, and reproducibility.
Introducing a brand new concept in academic publishing and scholarly communication, combining the best features of journals and books.
One hundred years after Albert Einstein made public his theory of general relativity, many of us struggle to understand it.
A new journal is encouraging scientists to publish single observations, no matter how small.
The Austrian Science Fund has agreed to support the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system at a rate equivalent to 15 institutions from 2016-2020.
Italian politicians have kindled the wrath of some biomedical scientists by hand-picking a stem-cell clinical trial for funding.
PaperRank service will allow researchers to rate papers online in bid to accelerate and open up process.
Scientific publishers are forging links with an organization that wants scientists to scribble comments over online research papers.
Research shifted focus away from harms of sugary drinks to exercise benefits.
There are too many PhD students for too few academic jobs - but with imagination, the problem could be solved.
For most young researchers, academic research is the love of their life. But how much can and should be sacrificed for this love?
Drivers of research may need to be tweaked to ensure better contribution to society.
An analysis of the essential tension identifies institutional forces that sustain tradition and suggestions of policy interventions to foster innovation.
The distribution of p-values in reported medical abstracts provides evidence for systematic error in the reporting of p-values..
Study presenting evidence for the existence of a citation advantage within astrophysics for papers that link to data.
We can't avoid making snap decisions about other people. Or can we?
What's the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?
