Austrian social scientist Helga Nowotny was president of the European Research Council between 2010 and 2013. Now a professor emerita of ETH Zurich and author of The Cunning of Uncertainty (Polity, 2015), Nowotny discusses the growing pressure to capitalize on academic research, and how countries can get it right in the absence of a universal recipe.
The value that Australia places on publication quality over quantity has elevated it into the top echelon of science. Can it now improve its flagging track record in commercialization?
When PLoS announced its data policy that all data should be made publicly available, everyone applauded. It was a big step toward an open science and data sharing.
If the work is properly monitored, there is no reason not to trust the results
Launched twenty years ago this week, EurekAlert has tracked, and in some ways shaped, the way science is covered in the digital era.
The Social Science Research Network says that it will continue to offer free submissions and downloads under its new owner.
The world currently spends about €7.6 billion per year on subscriptions to academic journals according to one report. If all journal articles in the world were published in journals like PLOS One, we would spend €2.6 billion on publishing. Compared with today’s expenditures, humanity would save €5 billion every year.
Graduate students struggling with the stresses of their work and lives can tap into multiple avenues of support.
Why is it so frustrating and difficult to talk about scholarly-communication reform, and why do those conversations seem to involve virtually all members of the scholcomm ecosystem?
Has teaching been the poor cousin of research for too long?
Governments need to tighten regulation if the sharing of clinical-trial data is to succeed.
A science writer challenges the sceptics community to move beyond tackling just ‘easy’ issues.
Evolve governance structures, practices and metrics to accelerate innovation in an era of digital connectivity, writes Martin Curley.
Academic and entrepreneurial communities battle over bills to boost the research set-aside for SBIR
Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.
SSRN’s data actually represents the world of social science scholarship reasonably well.
A two-day sprint event bringing together researchers, coders, librarians and the public from around the globe.
According to the SNSF, 40% of scientific publications produced with the support of public funding are openly accessible, which makes Switzerland “progressive” compared with other countries.
To make research more accessible, separate the review and dissemination processes.
Piece reflecting the opinions of researchers, funders, and journals.
As part of our Event Data work we’ve been investigating where DOI resolutions come from.
Being open about failure is one thing, but we must also look at how we define success, says Shahidha Bari
Revisiting the past can help to inform ideas of the present: science without consensus would be chaos. But the price of consensus is eternal vigilance against complacency, and a willingness to contemplate the road otherwise not travelled.
Drug researcher David Nutt discusses brain-imaging studies with hallucinogens and how he needed to crowdfund the resources to analyse the data.
