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Open Data
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Formalised Data Citation Practices

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Formalised Data Citation Practices

Formalised data citation practices would encourage more authors to make their data available for reuse.

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Reproducibility

The ReScience Journal

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Reproducibility

The ReScience Journal

A peer-reviewed journal targeting computational research and encouraging the explicit replication of already published research.

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Scientific Advice for Politics: The European Way

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Scientific Advice for Politics: The European Way

“When seven come together unanimously than it’s much stronger than if only one person signs."

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Authorea and BioRxiv Partner to Bring Preprints into 21st Century

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Authorea and BioRxiv Partner to Bring Preprints into 21st Century

Authorea, the collaborative document editor for researchers, announced a partnership and direct submission agreement with bioRxiv, the leading preprint server for biological research.

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Study Finds Large Share of Cases Involving Faculty Harassment of Graduate Students Are Serious

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Study Finds Large Share of Cases Involving Faculty Harassment of Graduate Students Are Serious

New study of harassment of graduate students by faculty members suggests that the problem is worse -- both in level of offense and prevalence of repeat offenders -- than many believe.

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Reproducibility
Open Science

Curating Research Assets in Behavioral Sciences

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Curating Research Assets in Behavioral Sciences

A Tutorial on the Git Version Control System.

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Open Access

Making More Research Open Access One Paper at a Time

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Making More Research Open Access One Paper at a Time

The Open Access Button directly reachs out to scholars who publish their work in paywalled journals to ask them to legally share their research.

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Open Science

Sustainable Computational Science: The ReScience Initiative

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Sustainable Computational Science: The ReScience Initiative

ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research.

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Factory Science

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Factory Science

How many authors does it really need to write a paper?

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Research Funding: The Case for a Modified Lottery

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Research Funding: The Case for a Modified Lottery

On awarding research funds on the basis of a modified lottery in which peer review is used to identify the most meritorious proposals, from which funded applications are selected by lottery.

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Have We Been Hacked By Sci-Hub?

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Have We Been Hacked By Sci-Hub?

Recent announcements from the creator of Sci-Hub raise the distinct possibility that Scholarly Publishers have been systematically compromised.

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Reproducibility

The Reproducibility of Research and the Misinterpretation of P-Values

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The Reproducibility of Research and the Misinterpretation of P-Values

Science is endangered by statistical misunderstanding, and by university presidents and research funders who impose perverse incentives on scientists.

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Climate Scientists Flock to France's Call

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Climate Scientists Flock to France's Call

President said ‘Make Our Planet Great Again’ — and researchers signed up.

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Careers
Funding

Another Tenure-Track Scientist Bites the Dust

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Another Tenure-Track Scientist Bites the Dust

On the potential disconnect between what researchers want to research and what funders want to fund.

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Dataviz

Researchers Can Now Publish Interactive Plotly Figures in F1000

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Researchers Can Now Publish Interactive Plotly Figures in F1000

F1000 is reducing the open access publishing charges for all articles containing an interactive Plotly figure by 50%.

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Do Last Week's European Copyright Votes Show Publishers Have Captured European Politics?

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Do Last Week's European Copyright Votes Show Publishers Have Captured European Politics?

A small change would open up a whole new class of works for which publishers could demand payment for the use of small snippets, apparently including works that the author had released under an open access license.

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14 Podcasts That Take Science Seriously

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14 Podcasts That Take Science Seriously

From an audio version of a peer-reviewed journal to 60-second crash courses, these are the best science podcasts.

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Open Science

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review

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A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review

Examining the functionality of a range of social Web platforms, and comparing these with the traits underlying a viable peer review system.

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On Blacklists and Whitelists

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On Blacklists and Whitelists

Experts debate how best to point researchers to reputable publishers and steer them away from predatory ones.

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Publishing

Tracking the Evolution of Reference Resources

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Tracking the Evolution of Reference Resources

A new study from Oxford University Press further documents the decline of reference resources, a category of scholarly material more than ready for an innovative era in its evolution.

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ScienceOpen Collecting and Connecting with ORCID

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ScienceOpen Collecting and Connecting with ORCID

ORCID have recognised ScienceOpen for leadership in integrating their services as part of their Collect and Connect program.

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Science to Participate in bioRxiv’s Manuscript Transfer Service

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Science to Participate in bioRxiv’s Manuscript Transfer Service

Authors will have the opportunity to submit their manuscripts directly for consideration to Science.

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Funding

French Research Groups up in Arms as Macron Proposes €331M Cut to 2017 Budget

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French Research Groups up in Arms as Macron Proposes €331M Cut to 2017 Budget

Macron's promise to ring fence university funding did not last two months, says the National Union of Higher Education.

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EU
International

Spain, the European Exception: 'Economic Miracle' & Scientific Suicide

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International

Spain, the European Exception: 'Economic Miracle' & Scientific Suicide

Spanish researchers are still waiting for the full implementation of a law which was approved six years ago.

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Open Data And The Fight Against Disease

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Open Data And The Fight Against Disease

Open data is increasingly common, but when it comes to tackling global disease, more needs to be done.

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How Do You Know What Research to Trust?

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How Do You Know What Research to Trust?

Bill Radke talks to Paul Basken, science policy reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, about how we should consume news that reports on scientific research.

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Publishing

The Battle for Free Knowledge

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The Battle for Free Knowledge

The issue regarding free access to academic journals and content is growing increasingly contentious, with founders of sites that enable this facing the might of the law. But should knowledge be exclusive?

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Europe
Infrastructures

Science Cloud Needs Some Solidity

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Science Cloud Needs Some Solidity

The European Commission has offered funding for an internet for research data. But it’s unclear what it expects to get for its money.

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Europe

ERC Cuts Grants to Fund Synergy Projects

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ERC Cuts Grants to Fund Synergy Projects

The European Research Council is planning to reduce the budgets for its single-investigator grants in 2018, to fund the return of the multi-investigator Synergy Grants.

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Open Data
Research Data

What Does It Mean to Share 'Raw Data'?

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What Does It Mean to Share 'Raw Data'?

It turns out that defining "raw" is a little trickier than it might seem.

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