With the Access Issue Temporarily Solved, What Now?
After almost 25 years since Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal“, now, finally, scholars and the public have a range of avenues at their disposal to access nearly every scholarly article.
Naiveté Scene - Open Source vs. Scale in Scholarly Publishing
Once again, the term "open" requires further thought to probe the pros and cons. With open source, we may be once again doing things that make the big bigger and the small less relevant.
Academics' Top Tips for Publishing Success
Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews.
Why We Find And Expose Bad Science
Bad research just doesn’t affect the people in the area around it, the people who might spend years trying to take a dodgy result and extend it.
More Resources for Assistant Professors
With the aim of maintaining the competitiveness of Swiss research, the SNSF is launching a new career funding scheme at assistant professor level.
VizioMetrics
Organization and presentation of visual information in the scientific literature.
Computer Programming Languages Can Impact Science and Thought
Knowledge Lab project to investigate programming features and data science environments.
Decisions, Decisions
Journals are exploring new approaches to peer review in order to reduce bias, increase transparency and respond to author preferences. Funders are also getting involved.
Are Preprints the Future of Biology?
Biologists are posting unreviewed manuscripts in record numbers. But many are still not sure it's a good idea. A survival guide for scientists.
After Upheaval, Russian Academy of Sciences Gets New Leader
Physicist Alexander Sergeyev gets nod from Vladimir Putin.
Chatter Makes Popular Metric Unreliable
An analysis of a popular reputation metric concludes it relies too heavily on social interaction.
Do ResearchGate Scores Create Ghost Academic Reputations?
The academic social network site ResearchGate (RG) has its own indicator, RG Score, for its members. The high profile nature of the site means that the RG Score may be used for recruitment, promotion
Artificial Intelligence in Peer Review
How can evolutionary computation support journal editors?
Steps towards Transparency in Research Publishing
As research and editorial processes become increasingly open, scientists and editors need to be proactive but also alert to risks.
Are Predatory Journals Undermining the Credibility of Science?
A bibliometric analysis of citers.
We Hail Individual Geniuses, but Success in Science Comes through Collaboration
Body Clock Scientists Win Nobel
Three scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell time have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
Ten Simple Rules for Structuring Papers
Applying to all the parts of a paper and further to other forms of communication such as grants and posters.
Estimated Effects of Implementing an Open Access Policy for Grantees at a Private Foundation
Estimated Effects of Implementing an Open Access Policy for Grantees at a Private Foundation
Understanding the potential effects of requiring that grantees publish their peer-reviewed research in open access journals.
Publishers Increasingly in Control of Scholarly Infrastructure and This Is Why We Should Care
Publishers Increasingly in Control of Scholarly Infrastructure and This Is Why We Should Care
There is an urgent need by research communities and public agencies to collaboratively reclaim the infrastructure around the academic knowledge production process.
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