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Preprints

The ArXiv of the Future Will Not Look Like the ArXiv

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The ArXiv of the Future Will Not Look Like the ArXiv

The strengths and weaknesses of arXiv in an effort to identify what possible improvements can be made based on new technologies not previously available.

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Science First, Scientists Later

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Science First, Scientists Later

How and why we should get rid of author lists in scientific publications.

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Scientists: Advertise Your Failures!

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Scientists: Advertise Your Failures!

They’re a part of every career, and being upfront about them can help put things in perspective.

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A Powerful Partnership Brings Open Annotation to EPUBs

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A Powerful Partnership Brings Open Annotation to EPUBs

The world's first open-source, standards-based annotation capability in an EPUB viewer.

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Foresight

These Trailblazers Are Paving the Way for Open Access

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These Trailblazers Are Paving the Way for Open Access

After almost two decades, these developments give hope that scholarly articles will finally be freed from their paywalls.

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Reproducibility
Publishing

Publishing a Reproducible Paper

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Publishing a Reproducible Paper

The perceived and actual barriers experienced by researchers attempting to do reproducible research.

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Foresight

What Does the Future Hold for Scientific Journals? Visual Abstracts and Other Tools for Communicating Research

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Foresight

What Does the Future Hold for Scientific Journals? Visual Abstracts and Other Tools for Communicating Research

As journals move away from print formats and embrace web-based content, design-centered thinking will allow for engagement of a larger audience.

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Are Predatory Journals Undermining the Credibility of Science? A Bibliometric Analysis of Citers

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Are Predatory Journals Undermining the Credibility of Science? A Bibliometric Analysis of Citers

An analysis of potential predatory journals as well as potential poor scientific standards journals.

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Open Access

NPG continues to deceive about OpenAccess

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Open Access

NPG continues to deceive about OpenAccess

I was reminded today about the wonderful history of Nature in it's claim that it would make all papers reporting a new genome sequence freely and openly available.

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Commission Releases Early Details of Future Research Megaprojects

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Commission Releases Early Details of Future Research Megaprojects

The next €1B flagship projects will target ICT, energy and health, according to the draft work programme for 2018-2020 published by the European Commission.

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Reproducibility

Steps Towards Transparency in Research Publishing

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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.

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New Chief Science Adviser Named

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New Chief Science Adviser Named

Cardiology researcher Mona Nemer, is vice president for research at the University of Ottawa.

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Statistics

Remove, Rather than Redefine, Statistical Significance

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Remove, Rather than Redefine, Statistical Significance

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Communication

NASA Should Be Friendly to the Press. Lately, It’s Not.

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NASA Should Be Friendly to the Press. Lately, It’s Not.

Why is the one federal agency dedicated to revealing the unknown to humankind so difficult for many journalists to penetrate?

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Senate Panel Blocks NIH From Revising Translational Research Awards

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Senate Panel Blocks NIH From Revising Translational Research Awards

Lawmakers criticize how the NIH manages the $500 million program.

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Integrity

Lack of Improvement in Scientific Integrity: An Analysis of WoS Retractions by Chinese Researchers (1997–2016)

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Lack of Improvement in Scientific Integrity: An Analysis of WoS Retractions by Chinese Researchers (1997–2016)

This study investigated the status quo of article retractions by Chinese researchers.

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Ivanka Trump, Computer science education a new “priority”

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Ivanka Trump, Computer science education a new “priority”

“We do have a major diversity problem in the tech industry,” president’s daughter adds.

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Switzerland

How Switzerland Became The Silicon Valley Of Robotics

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Switzerland

How Switzerland Became The Silicon Valley Of Robotics

Mountains, lakes, chocolate, fondue and banks? Right? Only partly.

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Communication

Wikipedia Shapes Language in Science Papers

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Wikipedia Shapes Language in Science Papers

Experiment traces how online encyclopaedia influences research write-ups.

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Open Access

With the Access Issue Temporarily Solved, What Now?

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Open Access

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.

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Europe

Scientists See Opportunity and Risks in Catalan Independence

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Scientists See Opportunity and Risks in Catalan Independence

The upcoming referendum is unsettling researchers.

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Humor

The Ig Nobels: The Lighter Side of Scientific Research

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Humor

The Ig Nobels: The Lighter Side of Scientific Research

What exactly are the Ig Nobels? And what can we learn from the Journal of Irreproducible Results and the Annals of Improbable Results?

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Funding
US

2017 Golden Goose Awards Honor Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs

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Funding
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2017 Golden Goose Awards Honor Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs

The Golden Goose Award honors federally funded, often odd-sounding scientific research that yields significant benefits.

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Foresight
Publishing

Naiveté Scene - Open Source vs. Scale in Scholarly Publishing

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Publishing

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.

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Peer Review

Academics' Top Tips for Publishing Success

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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.

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Integrity
Misconduct

Why We Find And Expose Bad Science

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Misconduct

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.

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Metrics

Which Comes First, NIH Funding or Research Impact?

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Which Comes First, NIH Funding or Research Impact?

Contrary to the basic premise of many funding policies, we find that the number of citations of an investigator determine funding levels, but not the other way around.

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History
Preprints

Preprint Ecosystems

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Preprint Ecosystems

In 1991, an electronic system through which interested parties could access non-peer-reviewed physics papers was launched by Paul Ginsparg at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Careers
Switzerland

More Resources for Assistant Professors

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Switzerland

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.

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Careers

Facing Poverty, Academics Turn to Sex Work and Sleeping in Cars

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Facing Poverty, Academics Turn to Sex Work and Sleeping in Cars

Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures.

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