The European Commission and the European Investment Fund are inviting applications for setting up and managing one or more private-sector led, market-driven Pan-European Venture Capital Funds-of-Funds.
How should the scientific publication process be rethought to be more meritocratic?
Reviewers who are experts in a given field are more likely to deliver harsher critiques of papers that hit close to home, researchers report.
Civility is important in evaluating a manuscript for publication, but so is telling the truth when the paper falls short.
The knowledge that we produce in our publicly funded works belongs to humankind and must not be locked up behind pay-walls— newly submitted papers should be open-access and older ones open-archive.
Researchers may publish their best work at any point in their careers, a new study reports. This is not the same as success being the result of random forces or just plain “dumb luck.”
In an era where research bureaucracy is the biggest burden bestowed upon scientists, some are seeking practical solutions.
While offering reviewers any form of guidance is better than none, being thorough and creating a reviewer checklist is by far the best way to help reviewers know the expectations of your journal.
The University of Oregon is launching a new science campus, backed by a $500 million gift from Nike Inc. co-founder Phil Knight and his wife.
Tata Trusts and UC San Diego partner to establish Tata Institute for Active Genetics and Society.
World Health Organization asks research initiatives to focus on translating their findings into clinical benefits.
The story of La Paillasse: an open lab which aims to cut out the intermediaries and create a much more open way of doing research, enabling to fast-prototype solutions to scientific problems.
Biomedical funders worldwide are adopting the US agency’s free Relative Citation Ratio to analyse grant outcomes.
Neuroscientist Ana Mingorance’s experience highlights some pointers for successfully making the move to industry.
Top science and tech talent could choose to set up in other countries that are more hospitable to their work.
The Winnower will power a range of publishing services for researchers who are writing on Authorea.
A PLOS selection of research articles, guidelines, and commentaries about data sharing, data practices, and data policies from different research fields.
The majority of our authors are opting in to publish reviewer reports of their papers.
Researchers acting to maximise their fitness should spend most of their effort seeking novel results and conduct small studies that have only 10%–40% statistical power. As a result, half of the studies they publish will report erroneous conclusions. Current incentive structures are in conflict with maximising the scientific value of research; we suggest ways that the scientific ecosystem could be improved.
eLife has appointed Paul Shannon as its new Head of Technology to oversee the development of tools and software in support of science communication.
Semantic Scholar extends its reach to neuroscience, analyzing millions of science articles
In 2013, we set out to build Mozilla's first open science program with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Over three years later, we're pleased to announce a two-year award from the Sloan Foundation to further support that work in advancing openness, adoption and reproducibility in science.
An academic search engine that utilizes artificial intelligence methods to provide highly relevant results and novel tools to filter them with ease.
While deceptive publishing remains an ongoing issue, particularly in the developing world, increasing public engagement, development of OA policies, and discussion of sustainable and ethical publishing practices can remove this potential threat.
