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Preprints

Six New Preprint Services Join a Growing Community Across Disciplines

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Preprints

Six New Preprint Services Join a Growing Community Across Disciplines

This week, six communities launched preprint services to accelerate dissemination of research.

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Cryptocurrency and Independent Scientific Funding

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Funding

Cryptocurrency and Independent Scientific Funding

How cryptocurrencies may generate capital for scientific funding via dividend reinvestment.

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Foresight

What Will Research Look Like in 2035?

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What Will Research Look Like in 2035?

Whatever the future may hold, hyperloops, Mars or otherwise, it is the culture of research that will support our world-class researchers to deliver at their best.

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EU

Ten Cities Enter the Final Round of the 2017 European Capital of Innovation Contest

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Ten Cities Enter the Final Round of the 2017 European Capital of Innovation Contest

And the finalists are...

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Innovation

How Innovation Can Solve Society's Problems

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Innovation

How Innovation Can Solve Society's Problems

When you think of innovation, you also may think of patents and profits. But two Swiss researchers argue that we should be focusing more on people and places.

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Education

Expensive Academic Conferences Give Us Old Ideas and No New Faces

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Education

Expensive Academic Conferences Give Us Old Ideas and No New Faces

The ballooning costs of attending high-end academic conferences are excluding early-career researchers. But we need their fresh perspectives

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Preprints

The Center for Open Science, Alternative to Elsevier, Announces New Preprint Services

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Preprints

The Center for Open Science, Alternative to Elsevier, Announces New Preprint Services

Ultimately, a key question is emerging for higher education institutions: to what extent, and under what conditions, does it make sense to outsource core scholarly infrastructure?

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Open Data

These Heroes Are Rescuing Our Government’s Data

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Open Data

These Heroes Are Rescuing Our Government’s Data

After a post-election frenzy to save government data, open-access advocates are refocusing their energies toward a long-term strategy.

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Metrics

What Drives University Research Performance?

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What Drives University Research Performance?

An analysis using the CWTS Leiden Ranking data.

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Opinion

Stop Blocking Postdocs’ Paths to Success

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Opinion

Stop Blocking Postdocs’ Paths to Success

Lab heads should let junior researchers take their projects with them when they start their own labs — it drives innovation and discovery, argues Ben A.

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US

Science Envoy Resigns in Protest at Trump Policies

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Science Envoy Resigns in Protest at Trump Policies

Energy researcher Daniel Kammen faults US president’s positions on climate change and energy and his failure to condemn white supremacists.

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Website

No Deal, No Review – #nodealnoreview

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Website

No Deal, No Review – #nodealnoreview

A template for responding the invitations for editorial and reviewer tasks for journals that you wish to boycott.

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History

How a Polymath Transformed Our Understanding of Information

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How a Polymath Transformed Our Understanding of Information

It took a polymath to pin down the true nature of ‘information’. His answer was both a revelation and a return.

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China

Science Suffers as China's Internet Censors Plug Holes in Great Firewall

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Science Suffers as China's Internet Censors Plug Holes in Great Firewall

New restrictions hamper access to websites useful for research.

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Open Science

The Open Science Report

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Open Science

The Open Science Report

How to provide the skills researchers need?

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Biomedicine
Innovation

Modified T Cells that Attack Leukemia Become First Gene Therapy Approved

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Biomedicine
Innovation

Modified T Cells that Attack Leukemia Become First Gene Therapy Approved

Approval of Novartis cancer drug is “historic,” FDA says

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Prizes

Do Great Minds Think Alike?

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Prizes

Do Great Minds Think Alike?

We share what 50 Nobel prizewinners think about issues facing science, universities and the world, from populist politics and researcher mobility, to artificial intelligence and threats to humankind

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Peer Review
Opinion

Bland Peer Review Needs a Pinch of Salt

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Bland Peer Review Needs a Pinch of Salt

Wise and honourable assessors of grant applications must be allowed to use their discretion, says Sui Huang

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UK

Will 'Picking Winners' Work?

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Will 'Picking Winners' Work?

Why has the UK government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned in the 1980s?

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Peer Review

What Is Open Peer Review? A Systematic Review

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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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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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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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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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Dataviz
Publishing
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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