Advocating for Publishing Peer Review
Perspectives on the benefits of open peer review, and responding to concerns.
Making a home for the Physical Sciences and Engineering in PLOS ONE
PLOS ONE has created a Physical Sciences and Engineering team as part of a wider effort to better serve our communities through subject-specific in-house editorial groups.
E.P.A. Announces a New Rule. One Likely Effect: Less Science in Policymaking
The agency plans to publish a new regulation Tuesday that would restrict the kinds of scientific studies the agency can use when it develops policies.
"We're Negotiating Open Access"
The Swiss universities are negotiating with the world’s three largest scientific publishers for fair – in other words affordable – terms of access. Michael Hengartner, president of swissuniversities and UZH, explains the background.
Facebook Shuts the Gate After the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process
Facebook Shuts the Gate After the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process
Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. While these changes may generate some positive publicity for the company, they are likely to compound the real problem, further diminishing transparency and opportunities for independent oversight.
Stop Hiding Your Code
If you are a scientist, there are many compelling reasons to openly share your source code, from reproducibility to increasing impact.
What Happens When Science Just Disappears?
When one of the first online science journals went under, its papers all disappeared. Enter: Portico, the Wayback Machine for scholarly publications.
Peer Review: Correspondence by Relationship at the Royal Society
Discover enlightening reports about some of the most famous scientific papers, or read famous scientists considering the work of their peers.
Recommendation on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Information
Recommendation on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Information
Commission Recommendation of 25 April 2018 on access to and preservation of scientific information.
With €1.5 Billion for Artificial Intelligence Research, Europe Pins Hopes on Ethics
US Government Considers Charging for Popular Earth-Observing Data
Images from Landsat satellites and agricultural-survey programme are freely available to scientists - but for how long?
Famed Cancer Biologist Allegedly Sexually Harassed Women for Decades
As Inder Verma soared at Salk Institute, women say a parallel tale of unwelcome advances and comments unfolded.
The Racial Exclusions in Scholarly Citations
Inequality is reproduced (and whiteness is institutionalized) by citation patterns as earlier periods of overt exclusion are legitimated by an almost ritualistic citation of certain thinkers.
Chemistry Students With Advisers of Same Gender More Likely to Succeed
Women with female PhD supervisors publish more papers and are 50% more likely to become academics than those with male advisers.
Practicing What You Preach: Evaluating Access of Open Access Research
This study finds that 73.7 percent of articles about OA are openly available.
The Text and Data Mining Exception in the Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market: Why It Is Not What Eu Copyright Law Needs?
The Coevolution of Physics and Math
Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics-and vice versa. When you go far enough back, you really can’t tell who’s a physicist and who’s a mathematician.
Against Metrics: How Measuring Performance by Numbers Backfires
Contrary to commonsense belief, attempts to measure productivity through performance metrics discourage initiative, innovation and risk-taking. The entrepreneurial element of human nature is stifled by metric fixation.
Inexpensive Research in the Golden Open-Access Era
The financial pressure that publishers impose on libraries is a worldwide concern. Gold open-access publishing with an expensive article-processing charge paid by the authors is often presented as an ideal solution to this problem. However, such a system threatens less-funded departments and even article quality.
Why We Should Bulldoze the Business School
There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many.
Random Audits Could Shift the Incentive for Researchers From Quantity to Quality
One way to push back against the pressure to “publish or perish” is to randomly audit a small proportion of researchers and take time to assess their research in detail. Auditors could examine complex measures of quality which no metric could ever capture such as originality, reproducibility, and research translation.
Cheating at UK's Top Universities Soars by 40%
Institutions including Oxford and Cambridge under scrutiny as the number of academic misconduct cases surges.
JROST: Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools
An informal group of like minded organizations coming together around a common purpose: work on a joint roadmap for open science tools.
Joint Statement on EPA Proposed Rule and Public Availability of Data
Joint Statement on EPA Proposed Rule and Public Availability of Data
Response to a proposed rule announced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a 24 April 2018 press release.
In Tackling Gender Inequality in STEM, Considerations of Culture
Study finds that countries ranking higher on measures of gender equality tend to have fewer women pursuing a STEM education than those further down the gender equality ranks. The analysis suggests that there are girls with the grades, confidence, and the enjoyment of science to go into STEM, who still end up pursuing other careers. For the numerous organizations dedicated to addressing the problem of women’s underrepresentation in science, solutions are far from clear.
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