Where are the data?
Papers accepted for publication in Nature and an initial 12 other Nature titles will be required to include information on whether and how others can access the underlying data.
Papers accepted for publication in Nature and an initial 12 other Nature titles will be required to include information on whether and how others can access the underlying data.
Etalia, Simiary and Writefull, three companies aiming to disrupt the academic space, are the latest recipients of the Catalyst Grant award for innovative startups.
Figshare announced a new partnership with Royal Society to increase research data discoverability.
It's easy to misrepresent the findings from brain scan studies. Just ask a dead salmon.
Idea is one of several ways to speed the peer review process, although some think it will annoy academics
New study looks at what happened when a university made its publications publicly available through an institutional repository
‘SmartFigures Lab’ is a prototype online publishing website with enhanced data presentation capabilities. The site results from the integration of SmartFigures, an open source application of the EMBO SourceData platform, with Wiley’s Content Enrichment Framework and research & development environment.
It is useful to consider the trajectory of both scientific and literary publishing on the grid-group plane defined by Mary Douglas which arranges attitudes along two axes: one ranging from the hierarchical to the egalitarian, and the other spanning individualistic to communitarian. I would contend that, in both cases, there has been a move from the hierarchical/communitarian quadrant towards the egalitarian/individualistic zone.
Ask people what’s wrong in American higher education, and you’ll hear about grade inflation.
Internal analysis finds women earn 10.5 per cent less than men of similar experience and research productivity
I have just learned that Elsevier, after a lengthy review and negotiation process with the US Patent Office, have been awarded a US Patent on “Online Peer Review System and Method”. What is this about and why is it ridiculous to me.
Today sees the publication on bioRxiv of a revised version of our preprint outlining “A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions".
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.
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.
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.
'Reproducibility editor' Victoria Stodden explains the growing movement to make code and data available to others
Efforts to reduce irreproducibility in research must also tackle the temptation to cheat.
John Ioannidis suggests that the number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in literature have each increased by more than 2500% since 1991.
John P.A. Ioannidis argues that the production of systematic reviews and meta-analyses has reached epidemic proportions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This study estimates the development of hybrid open access (OA), i.e. articles published openly on the web within subscription-access journals.
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
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.
Proposed law would ban the practice