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Research Data

Where are the data?

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Research Data

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.

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Digital Science Reveals Catalyst Grant Winners

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Digital Science Reveals Catalyst Grant Winners

Etalia, Simiary and Writefull, three companies aiming to disrupt the academic space, are the latest recipients of the Catalyst Grant award for innovative startups.

 

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Figshare Partners with The Royal Society

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Figshare Partners with The Royal Society

Figshare announced a new partnership with Royal Society to increase research data discoverability.

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Reproducibility

There’s a lot of junk fMRI research out there

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Reproducibility

There’s a lot of junk fMRI research out there

It's easy to misrepresent the findings from brain scan studies. Just ask a dead salmon.

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Rankings

Journal to rank peer reviewers to improve response times

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Journal to rank peer reviewers to improve response times

Idea is one of several ways to speed the peer review process, although some think it will annoy academics

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Open Access

Open access 'boosts citations by a fifth'

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Open access 'boosts citations by a fifth'

New study looks at what happened when a university made its publications publicly available through an institutional repository

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Publishing

EMBO and Wiley launch the SmartFigures Lab

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EMBO and Wiley launch the SmartFigures Lab

‘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.

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Publishing

How has publishing changed in the last 20 years?

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Publishing

How has publishing changed in the last 20 years?

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.

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Education

Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve

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Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve

Ask people what’s wrong in American higher education, and you’ll hear about grade inflation.

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Equality

LSE to give female academics pay rises to close gap with men

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Equality

LSE to give female academics pay rises to close gap with men

Internal analysis finds women earn 10.5 per cent less than men of similar experience and research productivity

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Elsevier's Ridiculous Patent on Online Peer Review

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Elsevier's Ridiculous Patent on Online Peer Review

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.

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Reproducibility

Excel errors and science papers

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Reproducibility

Excel errors and science papers

Spreadsheets are playing havoc with scientists

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Metrics

Pride and Prejudice and journal citation distributions

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Pride and Prejudice and journal citation distributions

Today sees the publication on bioRxiv of a revised version of our preprint outlining “A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions".

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Humanities

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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Metrics

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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COI

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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Open Science

Why scientists must share their research code

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Open Science

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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Misconduct

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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Careers

‘Junior ERC grants’ mooted

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Careers

‘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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UK
Russia

Intergovernmental agreement on science boosted

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Russia

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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Prizes

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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EU

Commission proposes copyright exception for researchers

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EU

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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Metrics
Open Access

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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International
Misconduct

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

Proposed law would ban the practice

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Policy

Report urges to make room for science in the White House

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Policy

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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EU

Europe proposes copyright reform to help scientists mine research papers

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EU

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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