African Scientists Get Their Own Open-Access Publishing Platform
Venture will launch next year and seeks to strengthen continent’s science by helping academics share work more quickly.
Wellcome Open Research: First Year in Numbers
Michael Markie, Publisher at F1000, and Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome, highlight Wellcome Open Research’s achievements in its first year of publishing.
It's Time to Incentivise the Behaviours That Are Good for Research and Researchers
It's Time to Incentivise the Behaviours That Are Good for Research and Researchers
The importance of addressing researchers’ recognition and reward structures, arguing it is time to move to a system that uses metrics and indicators that incentivise the types of behaviours that are good for research and researchers.
Early Career Researchers Want Open Science
On the task of changing scientific research into open scientific research and commiting to Open Science principles.
NIH Institute Directors Stand Firm on Not Renewing Focused Firearm Research Program
More members of Congress ask agency why program lapsed.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Does Backflips Now
The Atlas humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics can now do backflips. That's one hell of a feat for a bipedal machine.
You’re a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do?
Investigating solutions for frustrated scholars, nonprofits, independent learners, and the rest of us.
The Research Nexus - Better Research Through Better Metadata
Linking associated research outputs.
Open Access Books 'Much More Likely' to Be Downloaded and Cited
Books, like journals, reach far more people when they are published open access.
Does Academia Need Another Alternative to For-Profit Scholarly Platforms?
Last week another nonprofit platform called ScholarlyHub announced its plans for a site where researchers can also exchange ideas and work—if they pay a subscription fee.
Mondrian Meets Euclid: An Eccentric Victorian Mathematician’s Masterwork of Art and Science
Mondrian Meets Euclid: An Eccentric Victorian Mathematician’s Masterwork of Art and Science
Primary colors, geometry, and graphic design before there was graphic design.
A New Model for Science Communication
SciComm: Why it is essential, and how we can do it better.
The Fallacy of Open-Access Publication
It’s clearly not open to all if scholars are required to pay to publish their results.
Data Sharing from Clinical Trials — A Research Funder’s Perspective
Data Sharing from Clinical Trials — A Research Funder’s Perspective
The Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation share a common vision for maximizing the value of data that are generated through the trials they fund.
More Than 100 Universities and Colleges in Offshore Leaks Data
More than 100 educational institutions, including some of the world's most prestigious, appear linked to blocker funds and other offshore investments.
How Canada Can Lead the World in Innovating Innovation
A new system must build cross-sector collaboration, lower barriers to working together, and create excitement and tangible know-how to attract investment.
The Case for 'Open Science': Do We Need Intellectual Property Law?
Professor Aled Edwards asks why we need an Intellectual Property law.
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