How Wikimedia Helped Authors Make over 3000 Articles Green Open Access
Michele Marchetto of Wikimedia Italia shares the story of how they helped authors to make their open access articles more widely available.
You Can Download Hawking's PhD For Free, but It Took 50 Years To Make It Happen
On the slow but steady rise of Open Access.
Not Just Available, but also Useful
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.
The End of an Error?
What would the world be like without formal peer review?, asks Fields medallists Timothy Gowers.
Lausanne to Host 2019 World Conference of Science Journalists
The city of Lausanne was chosen to host the 11th World Conference of Science Journalists.
PREreview: A Preprint Journal Club
Encouraging researchers to post their outputs as preprints.
Whether Psychology Research Is Improving Depends on Whom You Ask
Whether Psychology Research Is Improving Depends on Whom You Ask
Psychologists are pessimistic about the state of their field but want to improve, a survey shows. But are new measures working?
Alibaba Is Plowing $15 Billion into R&D with 7 New Research Labs
Alibaba wants to compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. The advisory board includes Harvard's geneticist George Church and others.
In Hiring for Junior Faculty Positions, Study Finds Bias Against Female Candidates Who Have Partners
In Hiring for Junior Faculty Positions, Study Finds Bias Against Female Candidates Who Have Partners
Study suggests women with male partners face bias in searches for junior faculty members.
Scholia: Wikidata Scholarly Profile
Scholarly profile pages constructed from queries to information in Wikidata.
These Professors Want to Lower the Rankings of Schools That Underpay Adjunct Faculty
Expertise in Sciences and the Decision of What Is Publishable: A Noble yet Endangered Task
Expertise in Sciences and the Decision of What Is Publishable: A Noble yet Endangered Task
How is a scientific article accepted for publication in an academic journal? What is the role of peer reviewers? Where does the system go astray?
Learning Networking by Reproducing Research Results
Students taking Stanford’s Advanced Topics in Networking class have to select a networking research paper and reproduce a result from it as part of a three-week pair project.
It’s Time to Do Something About Predatory Publishers
Sure, it’s happened to all of us — the invitation to be keynote speaker at a conference you’ve never heard of or an invitation to sit on an editorial board for a journal with a name you don’t recognize.
Motivating Participation in Open Science by Examining Researcher Incentives
Motivating Participation in Open Science by Examining Researcher Incentives
A survey of researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital provides insights into the challenges and opportunities involved in adopting an open science policy across an entire patient-oriented academic institution.
Top Swiss Science Prize Gets Boost
The Marcel Benoist Prize – the “Swiss Nobel Prize” for science – is to get a new look ahead of its centenary.
Financial Ties of Medical Journal Editors Should Be Disclosed
Approximately half of the editors of 52 prestigious U.S. medical journals received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2014.
Nightmares in the Lab: Chilling Tales for This Halloween
Have you ever crossed international borders with protein crystals in a big Styrofoam hand luggage, set your hair on fire, or forgotten to use the extractor and nearly gassed your co-workers?
The (Possible) Postdoc Union Boom
Could postdoc unions be the next big thing in collective bargaining among academics? Recent filing at University of Washington could be beginning of a new round of organizing.
Academics and Copyright Ownership: Ignorant, Confused or Misled?
Elizabeth Gadd takes a look at the contradictions between scholarly culture and copyright culture, and the cognitive dissonance created.
Forces of Nature
Recognize women who changed science with this free collection of print-at-home posters.
Springer Nature Blocks Access to Articles in China
Academic publisher Springer Nature says it has blocked access to articles within China to comply with demands from the Chinese government.
A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review
A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review
Emerging models of peer review from a range of disciplines and venues, and to ask how they might address some of the issues with our current systems of peer review.
Plans to Promote German Research Excellence Come Under Fire
Critics say selection process for high-stakes funding programme is flawed.
Public Money, Public Code: Show Your Support For Free Software in Europe
Public Money, Public Code is a campaign of the Free Software Foundation Europe that seeks to transform that ideal into European law.
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