Interview with Rusty Speidel, Marketing Director at the Center for Open Science (COS).
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit, independent research and educational institution known as a world leader in biomedical research.
Research used to be about the pursuit of knowledge, now it’s driven by impact and returns. The only way to survive is to change how we work
COPE has produced some guidelines which set out the basic principles and standards to which all peer reviewers should adhere during the peer-review process in research publication. The aim has been to make them generic so that they can be applied across disciplines.
Significant strides in improving public access to scholarly publications and digital data help usher in an era of open science.
Federally funded research and development (R&D) is a hallmark of the U.S. economy but, it's under siege. To maximize and make apparent the economic returns from R&D, the next administration should seek to improve the local economic impact of federal R&D.
The arXiv preprint service is trying to answer an age-old question.
Peer review publications remain a key stage in the quality assurance of new research, but some comments can be the stuff of nightmares.
A communication setting out a new strategy for international cooperation in research and innovation, in particular with a view to implementing Horizon 2020.
Blockchain could strengthen science’s verification process, helping to make more research results reproducible, true, and useful, due to its capacity to make digital goods immutable, transparent, and provable.
Mike Schaefer, from the University of Zurich, investigates what factors make for a successful crowdfunding project.
The increase of the fraction of papers authored by women is slowest in the most prestigious journals.
How can more scholars and journals embrace preprints to make research freely accessible? This slideshow co-created by Scholastica and Authorea addresses this question and more.
When I first heard that Bob Dylan had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, I was immediately jealous of the scientists who had won this year.
Jim Smith is a Professor of Developmental Biology at the Francis Crick Institute.
Taking an unconventional route after studying for a doctorate should not be seen as a failure, says Fiona Whelan
A new database at EMBL-EBI gives a home to all of the data supporting a study.
Results of a survey of Wellcome researchers to find out what they think about open research, how they practice it, and some of the barriers they face.
A new book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an ‘improved’ use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective.
An MP’s dismissive tweet that scientists have ‘no experience of the real world’ highlights a chasm in mutual understanding.
Government support for startups is underrated, says Mariana Mazzucato.
Cull of papers follows similar discoveries in 2015.
