AAAS expands the Science Family by Launching Two New Journals
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced plans for two new peer-reviewed journals, Science Robotics and Science Immunology..
Biomedical researchers lax in checking for imposter cell lines
Many scientists still not bothering to address an issue that undermines the reproducibility of research findings.
Over 60% of 2015 research articles on Nature.com are OA
Sixty three per cent of original research articles published to date on nature.com in 2015 are open access, nearly 10,000 papers. Ten years ago, NPG introduced its first fully open access journal. Today, NPG publishes over 80 journals with an open access option.
Scientists can draw very different meanings from the same data, study shows
Giving the same information to multiple scientific teams can lead to very different conclusions, a report published today in Nature shows.
Virtual rat brain fails to impress its critics
Some scientists the long-awaited paper of the Blue Brain Project, a 10-year program spearheaded by neuroscientist Henry Markram, as proof that the idea of modeling a brain and all of its components is misguided and a waste of money.
Do academy members publish better papers?
As an institution, science is not fond of privilege. Success in science is supposed to be the result of merit - hard work, tenacity and, to some degree, sheer luck - not nepotism, favoritism, or entitlement.
Let's make sure it's fair as well as transparent
Scientific publishing has undergone a revolution in recent years - largely due to the internet. And it shows no sign of letting up as a growing number of countries attempt to ensure that research papers are made freely available. Publishers are struggling to adapt their business models to the new challenges.
When things go wrong
Publishers should apply consistent policies to correcting the published literature and adopt versioning. The scientific community ought to encourage corrections.
Why colleges need more professors of color
While colleges often focus on increasing the diversity of their student body, educators say that same emphasis is necessary for hiring professors.
What really keeps women out of tech
Technology companies know they have a gender and diversity problem in their work force, and they are finally taking steps to try to fix it.
Research funded by the ERC in 2007–2013
The ERC has published today an analysis of the portfolio of its projects funded from 2007 to 2013 under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP7).
The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus
The objective of this research is to describe the journal coverage of those two databases and to assess whether some field, publishing country and language are over or underrepresented.
Fair allocation?
A research review on funding and gender produced by the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, Gothenburg University.
PLOScast
A PLOS podcast dedicated to interviews with innovators and thought leaders on scholarly publishing developments, the future of academia and the changing experiences of scientists.
10 yrs of OA at the Wellcome Trust
A timeline showing the major milestones in 10 years of Open Access at the Wellcome Trust.
Line-up announced for the OpenCon conference
OpenCon 2015 will feature leading speakers from across the Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data movements including Mike Eisen (PLoS) and Jimmy Wales (Founder Wikimedia).
UC policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees
University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a [3]Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide.
2015 Nature graduate-student survey
Graduate students dream of academia but are keeping their career options open, according to a 2015 Nature survey.
Massive pool of US biomedical postdocs starts to shrink
A decades-long surge in the numbers of US biomedical postdocs may finally have ended..
Africa produces 1.1% of global scientific knowledge
There are just 79 scientists per million Africans, compared to 4,500 per million people in the United States.
Why scientists should study art and literature
What benefit does a future scientist derive from knowing something about art and literature?
Why is academic writing so needlessly complex?
Some research funders have mandated in recent years that studies they finance be published in open-access journals, but they've given little attention to ensuring those studies include accessible writing.
Are we finally getting serious about fixing science?
Biomedical research has faced criticism for being unreliable, but a report from the Academy of Medical Sciences might change all that.
Science papers rarely cited in negative ways
On [22]the incidence and role of negative citations in science.
2015 survey: a global view
White paper showing that the vast majority of authors believe that blind peer review helps to minimize discrimination.
A century of physics
An analysis of WoS data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics, as well its internal map of subdisciplines.
Does innovation always come from science?
Essay triggers lively arguments over how basic science should be funded.
Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers-for free
"The internet has changed everything and people are simply no longer willing to pay $30 to read a paper from 1987."
ORCID auto-update launch a 'game changer'
ORCID has announced the launch of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and DataCite.
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