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Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.
European Cloud Initiative to give Europe a global lead in the data-driven economy
The Commission today presented its blueprint for cloud-based services and world-class data infrastructure to ensure science, business and public services reap benefits of big data revolution.
UK government pulls back from rule ‘gagging’ researchers
Research council grants will escape anti-lobbying crackdown, government confirms.
Cancer Research Is Broken
There’s a replication crisis in biomedicine—and no one even knows how deep it runs.
A radical change in peer review
A radical change in peer review
Data sharing pilot to report and reflect on data policy challenges
This week, FORCE2016 is taking place in Portland, USA. The FORCE11 yearly conference is devoted to the utilisation of technological and open science advancements towards a new-age scholarship founded on easily accessible, organised and reproducible research data.
Editorial control is a critical part of open peer review
Editorial control is a critical part of open peer review
I get the feeling that some researchers regard public, post-publication peer review as a non-rigorous, non-structured and poor alternative to traditional peer review...
Troubled from the start
Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated.
Self-presentation in scholarly profiles
Characteristics of images and perceptions of professionalism and attractiveness on academic social networking sites
Innovative Companies Get Their Best Ideas from Academic Research
Government-funded research is behind any significant new product
The Prevalence of Inappropriate Image Duplication in Biomedical Research Publications
The Prevalence of Inappropriate Image Duplication in Biomedical Research Publications
This study attempted to determine the percentage of published papers containing inappropriate image duplication, a specific type of inaccurate data.
US tops global research performance
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles.
Opening up scientific publishing for the Flickr generation
Figshare has brought science publishing into the digital age so that academics can publish and share their research fully
When the payoff for academics drops, commercialization suffers
A 2002 law in Norway that ended the country's long-running practice of giving academics 100% ownership of their intellectual property and adopted a U.S.-style system caused the per capita number of patents from academics to drop by 53% in the next 5 years.
Want a favorable peer review? Buy one
Want a favorable peer review? Buy one
Peer review hacking, where a fake identity is used to write a favorable review, is of growing concern to journal editors.
Vice President Biden Calls for Open Access, Open Data and New Incentives
Vice President Joe Biden has met with thousands of stakeholders across all sectors, seeking suggestions for how to remove the barriers that are currently blocking progress in science, research, and development.
EU excludes open source from new tech standards
Op-ed: Big US companies could use patent licensing to throttle EU startups.
New Stanford center for scientific cartography
The new David Rumsey Map Center, which opened last week at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, showcases what was once one of the world’s great private map collections—more than 150,000 maps, globes, and cartographic artifacts.
Europe to bet up to €1 billion on quantum technology
Commission announces new Flagship plan with little fanfare
Publication bias is boring. You should care about it anyway.
You all know about publication bias, don't you? Sure you do. It's the tendency to publish research that has bold, affirmative results and ignore research that concludes there's nothing going on.
Why so much science research is flawed – and what to do about it
Dodgy results are fuelling flawed policy decisions and undermining medical advances. They could even make us lose faith in science. New Scientist investigates
This microbiologist loves bugs and hates hype
An outspoken biologist uses social media as a megaphone as he calls out his colleagues for hyping their research findings and ignoring women scientists.
Why Brexit Runs Completely Counter to Modern Science
Whilst Brexit looms more ominously in the background, the next generation of data publishing is moving towards an ever-more collaborative and open place in which researchers can easily choose to make discoveries and data sets available across borders and cultures.
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