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Year One of The Open Library of Humanities

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Year One of The Open Library of Humanities

September 2016 marks the first year anniversary of the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. To celebrate, we thought we'd share some statistics about the platform and its growth.

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A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions

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A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions

Although the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is widely acknowledged to be a poor indicator of the quality of individual papers, it is used routinely to evaluate research and researchers. Here, we present a simple method for generating the citation distributions that underlie JIFs.

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How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat

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How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat

Internal sugar industry documents suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.

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Why scientists must share their research code

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Why scientists must share their research code

'Reproducibility editor' Victoria Stodden explains the growing movement to make code and data available to others

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Stop ignoring misconduct

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Misconduct

Stop ignoring misconduct

Efforts to reduce irreproducibility in research must also tackle the temptation to cheat.

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Interview

"We have an epidemic of deeply flawed meta-analyses"

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"We have an epidemic of deeply flawed meta-analyses"

John Ioannidis suggests that the number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in literature have each increased by more than 2500% since 1991.

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Reproducibility

The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses

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Reproducibility

The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses

John P.A. Ioannidis argues that the production of systematic reviews and meta-analyses has reached epidemic proportions.

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‘Junior ERC grants’ mooted

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‘Junior ERC grants’ mooted

The Council of the EU looks set to ask the European Research Council to consider setting up a new category of grants to help student researchers establish their careers.

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Intergovernmental agreement on science boosted

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Intergovernmental agreement on science boosted

Scientific cooperation between the UK and Russia was boosted in August this year when Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to extend the UK-Russia Intergovernmental Agreement on Science and Technology cooperation for another 10 years.

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Prizes

Lasker Awards Given for Work in Physiology, Virology and Science Education

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Lasker Awards Given for Work in Physiology, Virology and Science Education

The Lasker Awards, among the most respected prizes in medicine, will go to six researchers who made major discoveries in physiology and virology, and to a scientist who has tirelessly promoted science education.

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Commission proposes copyright exception for researchers

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Commission proposes copyright exception for researchers

As part of its update of EU copyright rules, the European Commission today proposed a copyright exception that would permit researchers to analyse on a large scale scientific data to which they have lawful access.

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Open Access

A longitudinal study on hybrid open access

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Open Access

A longitudinal study on hybrid open access

This study estimates the development of hybrid open access (OA), i.e. articles published openly on the web within subscription-access journals.

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Open Access

What do we know?

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What do we know?

A look at the literature reveals shortcomings in the way OA and subscription models are being compared and suggests how future studies could build on existing research to provide a more accurate picture

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Ruth Hubbard, 92, first woman tenured in biology at Harvard

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Ruth Hubbard, 92, first woman tenured in biology at Harvard

Ruth Hubbard, 92, of Cambridge, who died Sept. 1, first female biology professor to be awarded tenure at Harvard University, and also was an anti-war activist, a cautionary voice about privacy and gene research, and a prominent feminist critic of discrimination women face in sciences.

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Misconduct

A shady market in scientific papers mars Iran’s rise in science

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Misconduct

A shady market in scientific papers mars Iran’s rise in science

Proposed law would ban the practice

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Report urges to make room for science in the White House

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Report urges to make room for science in the White House

The 20-page report has an explicit message: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the position of the president’s science adviser should be retained.

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Europe proposes copyright reform to help scientists mine research papers

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Europe proposes copyright reform to help scientists mine research papers

Long-awaited plan would exempt computer-aided harvesting from EU copyright law.

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‘Motherless babies!’ How to create a tabloid science headline in five easy steps

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‘Motherless babies!’ How to create a tabloid science headline in five easy steps

A modest developmental biology paper prompts breathless claims of egg-free embryos

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Biomedicine

Outlook on "Precision Medicine"

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Outlook on "Precision Medicine"

A nature Outlook collection of articles on "Precision Medicine"

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New forum for responsible research metrics launched

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New forum for responsible research metrics launched

A group of research funders, sector bodies and infrastructure experts are working together in partnership to promote the responsible use of research metrics. 

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Making drug development less secretive could lead to quicker, cheaper therapies

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Making drug development less secretive could lead to quicker, cheaper therapies

With the right investment, an open source drug discovery system might compete with the traditional pharmaceutical industry to deliver the drugs we need.

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Controversy over eye-catching new Nobel Center

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Controversy over eye-catching new Nobel Center

Critics say the big new building will ruin the city's historic skyline

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Clinical trial rules aim to improve public reporting of results

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Clinical trial rules aim to improve public reporting of results

Researchers will have to publicly report the results of many more clinical trials under new government rules announced Friday.

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Impact

Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators

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Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators

The tension between simple but invalid indicators that are widely used and more sophisticated indicators that are not used or cannot be used in evaluation practices because they are not transparent for users, cannot be calculated, or are difficult to interpret.

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Turkey’s purge of academia leads to record asylum requests

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Turkey’s purge of academia leads to record asylum requests

Post-coup crackdown has led to a huge number of requests for help, say charities for at-risk scholars.

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Academia

The office experiment: Can science build the perfect workspace?

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Academia

The office experiment: Can science build the perfect workspace?

Windows, desks and employees are being wired up in a quest to create healthy, evidence-based environments.

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Survey

Attitudes to animal research in 2016

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Attitudes to animal research in 2016

This Ipsos MORI report presents the findings of a 2016 survey commissioned by the Office for Life Sciences to understand current public awareness of, and attitudes towards, the use of animals in research.

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Reproducibility

New Proposals to Solve the Ongoing Reproducibility Crisis

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New Proposals to Solve the Ongoing Reproducibility Crisis

Recap of contest launched by the Winnower and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to answer the question – How do we ensure that research is reproducible?

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International

Danish universities face more cuts and more political control

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Danish universities face more cuts and more political control

The Lars Løkke Rasmussen government is moving to cut funding for universities and the student financing system and increase political control over higher education institutions.

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Equality

Taking ownership of luck

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Equality

Taking ownership of luck

When I decided in my third year of grad school that I didn't want a career in academia, I took the initiative to seek out experiences that would help me build skills for other jobs.

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