Science Sting Exposes How Corrupt Some Journal Publishers Are
In the latest ploy, a group of researchers in Poland tried to seat a fictional scholar onto the editorial boards of 360 academic publications.
EU R&D Scoreboard 2016
Monitoring top EU based R&D investing companies benchmarking them with top investors located in other parts of the world.
Potential Predatory and Legitimate Biomedical Journals: Can You Tell the Difference?
Potential Predatory and Legitimate Biomedical Journals: Can You Tell the Difference?
A cross-sectional comparison of characteristics of potential predatory, legitimate open access, and legitimate subscription-based biomedical journals.
The Findings of Medical Research Are Disseminated Too Slowly
Papers reporting Gates-sponsored research cannot be charged for.
The Shackles of Scientific Journals
It is common practice for medical researchers to hoard results for months or years until research is published in an academic journal. Even then, the data underpinning a study are often not made public.
A Delicate Balance
Conflicts of interest can send a researcher's reputation crashing — but resolving them needn't be as burdensome as it seems.
Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living
Silicon Valley is coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place.
Authors Can Now Submit a Preprint to BioRxiv While Submitting to eLife
eLife has made it possible to submit the work first to eLife and then post the manuscript directly to bioRxiv.
Gender Bias in Scholarly Peer Review
Gender-bias in peer reviewing might persist even when gender-equity is reached because both male and female editors operate with a same-gender preference whose characteristics differ by editor-gender.
To Bolster National Security, Don’t Cut Scientific Research
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget is essentially a policy document, outlining the policy priorities of the administration and their plan to execute desired goals.
Unpaywall.org
Get full-text of research papers as you browse, using Unpaywall's index of ten million legal, open-access articles.
Open Knowledge Maps - a Visual Interface to the World's Scientific Knowledge
Open Knowledge Maps - a Visual Interface to the World's Scientific Knowledge
A visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike.
NIH Enables Investigators to Include Draft Preprints in Grant Proposals
NIH Enables Investigators to Include Draft Preprints in Grant Proposals
Agency welcomes raw manuscripts of findings that haven’t yet been peer reviewed.
Analysis of Meta-Analyses Identifies Where Sciences' Real Problems Lie
But the pressure to publish might not be such a problem after all.
Gates Foundation Announces Open-Access Publishing Venture
Global health charity is latest funder to start its own publishing ‘channel’ — and the European Commission is considering its own service.
A Lack of Ideological Diversity Is Killing Social Research
Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science.
Code Is the White Whale of Reproducibility In Science
And more than a little quixotic.
NSF Sends Congress a Garbled Message on Misconduct Numbers
Agency attempts to set the record straight after suggesting rise in cases.
Reflections from the Open Science Conference 2017
A report from the the Open Science Conference in Berlin last week.
The Selfish Scientist’s Guide to Preprint Posting
Preprint posting is the right thing to do for science and society. It enables us to share our results earlier, speeding up the pace of science.
How Elsevier Plans to Sabotage Open Access
A recently revealed contract between Elsevier and the Dutch research institutes lays bare the retardant tactics the publishing giant employs to stifle the growth of open access.
Charity Open Access Fund spend 2015-2016
Wellcome Trust annual analysis of the Charity Open Access Fund spend.
What Are Funders Doing to Minimise Waste in Research?
Steps to reduce waste of funds in research.
Citation Cartels ad The Mafia of Scientific Publishing
Citation cartels are groups of researchers and journals that team up with the specific intent of affecting the number of citations their publications receive.
A Fallow Year for Science in Canada
Last year’s Federal budget contained a number of significant dollar boosts for Canadian research but, more importantly, the language behind…
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