ScienceDisrupt Picks From 2016
We wanted to share with you some of the awesome science innovations and disruptors from the last year. This is our list.
German Researchers Start 2017 Without Elsevier Journals
In Germany, negotiations between scientific publishing company Elsevier and a consortium of hundreds of universities, technical schools, research institutes, and public libraries stalled in December 2016. As a result, more than 60 institutions have lost their online access to Elsevier's journals effective 1 January, although some can still access archived articles published before that date. The price of the journals is only part of the problem.
What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to Be More Widely Known?
Answers of the annual Edge.org question posed to leading thinkers and scientists.
Strengthening Global Sharing of Scientific Data and Research Findings
Principles promote access to Federal government-supported scientific data and research findings for international scientific cooperation
Citations Cartels An Emerging Problem in Scientific Publishing
Groups of authors citing each other is becoming an issue in scientific publishing. With a new approach, researchers discuss how to identify the problem.
Top 10 Reasons Why Blog Posts Are Better Than Scientific Papers
Envisioning the scientific paper of the future.
Academia in 3 Nations Boycotts Elsevier for High Journal Prices
Scientists in Taiwan, Germany, and Peru will lose access to more than 12,000 scientific journals after institutions boycott the publishing giant for high prices and minimal open-access options.
Preparing for the 21st Century Biomedical Research Job Market
Using Census Data to Inform Policy and Career Decision-Making
Brand New Year, Same Old Problems
Dame Athene Donald laments the lack of progress on gender issues
Scientific Papers Need Better Feedback Systems. Here's Why
Scientific Papers Need Better Feedback Systems. Here's Why
The current peer-review system is limited to asking two people for their opinions - this is not enough.
Deal Impasse Severs Elsevier Access for Some German Universities
As talks with the publisher stall, researchers in the country weigh whether they can cope without a deal
Does Peer Review Help Weed Out Bad Science?
Does Peer Review Help Weed Out Bad Science?
Peer-review had a role to play when journals were all in print and competing for subscription real estate, but today it may be little more than a vestige of the print era.
To Spark Medical Innovation, Canada Should Embrace Open Science
The Canadian government is again in the midst of its annual consultations on innovation. It seems our efforts to find the magic key to an “innovative economy” just never go away. By Aled Edwards, CEO of the Structural Genomics Consortium and professor at the University of Toronto.
Best Practices for Scientific Computing
A set of best practices for scientific software development, based on research and experience, that will improve scientists' productivity and the reliability of their software.
Scientists Loved and Loathedby an Agrochemical Giant
With corporate funding of research, “there’s no scientist who comes out of this unscathed.”
Top Ten Medical Research Issues and Trends to Watch in 2017
2016 will go down as a year that taught us to question our assumptions. The election of Donald Trump, an outcome
Don't Be A Zero-Sum Reviewer
Don't Be A Zero-Sum Reviewer
Time devoted to research is increasingly precious to us in academia. We chastise ourselves for not being able to keep up with the huge volumes of current literature. If only there was some way that all the latest literature on a particular topic could be packaged together for us, and delivered right to our inbox without us even having to lift a finger! Now, what would we call such an improbable utopia – ah yes, peer review.
Imagining the ‘Open’ University
The potential for open scholarship to improve university research and education, as well asincrease the impact universities can have beyond their own walls.
Open Science and Free Culture
A committment by a young researcher to practice open and good science, and more generally to free culture.
Fake Medical Journals Are Spreading, And They Are Filled With Bad Science
Fake Medical Journals Are Spreading, And They Are Filled With Bad Science
Fake news has been in the news a lot lately. Fake news proliferated wildly during the 2016 U.S. election, much of it completely fabricated, usually with an extreme partisan bias. Fake news is corrosive. It mis-informs the public, divides people against one another, leads to bad policy decisions, and can even induce people to take action against imaginary threats.
The Proposed Publishers Right Is an Attack on the Public Domain
Traditionally, at the beginning of the new year we celebrated what is known as Public Domain Day: on the first of January of any given year the works of authors who have been dead for more than 70 years enter the public domain. As this is a decisive year for copyright reform in the European Union, it seems much more important to highlight the dangers for the public domain that we are facing in the context of the copyright reform process.
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