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Peer Review

What Is Open Peer Review? A Systematic Review

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Peer Review

What Is Open Peer Review? A Systematic Review

A systematic review of definitions of “open peer review” or “open review”, to create a corpus of 122 definitions.

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Crowdfunding

3 Examples Of Crowdsourcing Science

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Crowdfunding

3 Examples Of Crowdsourcing Science

The time for crowdsourcing science has arrived. From idea generation to job hunting, crowdsourcing science can have an impact in your research.

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Metrics
Publishing

The R-factor, a New Way to Rate Journal Articles?

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Metrics
Publishing

The R-factor, a New Way to Rate Journal Articles?

New metric measures how reliable scientific claims turn out to be – but calculating it could be an enormous task.

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Mobility

Young Immigrant Scientists Anxiously Await Trump’s DACA Decision

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Mobility

Young Immigrant Scientists Anxiously Await Trump’s DACA Decision

Scientists, engineers and technical students among those covered by Obama-era protections.

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Misconduct

Meet The Scientists Using FOIA To See Each Other’s Grants

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Misconduct

Meet The Scientists Using FOIA To See Each Other’s Grants

Over the past decade, scientists or universities have used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get thousands of competitors' grants proposals. And many of the targeted scientists are upset.

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Careers

Know the Vital Players in Your Career: Tenure-Track Peers

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Careers

Know the Vital Players in Your Career: Tenure-Track Peers

What you should look for in an academic friend.

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Careers

Most Ph.D.s Aren't Professors

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Careers

Most Ph.D.s Aren't Professors

Everything one can do other than be professor.

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AI

How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence

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AI

How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence

Three rules for ensuring that A.I. systems don't run roughshod over humans.

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EU

Britain Offers £1bn a Year to Stay in the EU’s Science Club

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Britain Offers £1bn a Year to Stay in the EU’s Science Club

Britain will offer to keep paying more than £1 billion a year to the EU after Brexit to continue to participate in its science and research programmes.

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Open Data
Impact

Assessment of the Impact of Shared Data on the Scientific Literature

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Open Data
Impact

Assessment of the Impact of Shared Data on the Scientific Literature

This study demonstrates that openly shared data can increase the scale of scientific studies conducted by data contributors, and can recruit scientists from a broader range of disciplines.

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Impact

An Analysis of the First 100 Articles Published on Wellcome Open Research

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Dataviz
Publishing
Impact

An Analysis of the First 100 Articles Published on Wellcome Open Research

An overview of the type of research that has been published since launch of Wellcome Open Research.

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Publishing
Research Data

Supporting Data Openness, Transparency & Sharing

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Publishing
Research Data

Supporting Data Openness, Transparency & Sharing

Elsevier signs up to TOP guidelines & develops new data-sharing guidelines for journals.

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Frivolities

10+ Scientists Reveal Their Most Embarrassing Fieldwork Fails

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Frivolities

10+ Scientists Reveal Their Most Embarrassing Fieldwork Fails

When scientists step outside their safe laboratories, anything can happen. Of course, studying wild animals or digging out million-year-old fossils sounds exotic and exciting, but that's only one side of the spectrum.

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Open Science

Centre for Open Science Announces Elsevier as New Signatory to TOP Guidelines

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Open Science

Centre for Open Science Announces Elsevier as New Signatory to TOP Guidelines

Elsevier develops and implements comprehensive new journal data guidelines.

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Innovation

Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues

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Innovation

Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues

As teachers launch personal brands and cast themselves as influencers, start-ups and tech giants alike are racing to cultivate them to spread their wares.

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Publishing

Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking

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Publishing

Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking

Sci-Hub, which is regularly referred to as the "Pirate Bay of science," faces another setback in a US federal court.

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UK

UK Employers Worry About Loss of Research Funding After Brexit

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UK Employers Worry About Loss of Research Funding After Brexit

Britain must seek to protect research funding for its universities when it leaves the European Union or risk losing its leading role in innovation.

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Careers

Options for Scientists

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Options for Scientists

Most PhD students in the biological sciences will not go on to become academics.

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Open Data

If These Data Could Talk

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Open Data

If These Data Could Talk

Data-driven methods have come to dominate many scientific fields, but many fields exhibit distressingly low rates of reproducibility.

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Equality

Research Funding Is Harmful to Science – Time for Change

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Equality

Research Funding Is Harmful to Science – Time for Change

Researchers seeking science funding can be big losers in the equality and diversity game.

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ERC
EU

ERC Starting Grants

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Funding
ERC
EU

ERC Starting Grants

€605 million to 406 researchers across Europe.

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UK
EU

Collaboration on Science and Innovation With the EU

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UK
EU

Collaboration on Science and Innovation With the EU

Paper outlining the UK’s objectives for an ambitious science and innovation agreement with the EU.

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Open Access

The Academic, Economic and Societal Impacts of Open Access

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Open Access

The Academic, Economic and Societal Impacts of Open Access

An evidence-based review.

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Russia

Let’s Not Lose Our Minds

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History
US
Russia

Let’s Not Lose Our Minds

Parallels in science denialism: Soviet Union led by Stalin and US government led by Trump.

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EU
Brexit

UK Seeks 'Ambitious' Deal With EU on Science

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EU
Brexit

UK Seeks 'Ambitious' Deal With EU on Science

The UK government has called on the European Union to hold a “full and open discussion” on the terms of Britain's participation in EU research after Brexit.

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Reproducibility

A Journey of Reproducibility From Excel to Pandas

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Reproducibility

A Journey of Reproducibility From Excel to Pandas

A story about reproducibility.

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Integrity
Retractions
Careers

How Retractions Hurt Scientists' Credibility

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Integrity
Retractions
Careers

How Retractions Hurt Scientists' Credibility

Study finds faulty research creates a significant drop in use of prior published work.

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Germany

The Secret to Germany's Scientific Excellence

nature
Germany

The Secret to Germany's Scientific Excellence

With a national election this month, Germany proves that foresight and stability can power research.

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Careers

Research Your Career Options Well Before Graduation

sciencemag
Careers

Research Your Career Options Well Before Graduation

A recent book guides Ph.D. students and postdocs through the process of preparing for a career outside academe.

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Publishing

Stop this Waste of People, Animals and Money

nature
Publishing

Stop this Waste of People, Animals and Money

Predatory journals have shoddy reporting and include papers from wealthy nations

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