Mobilising value from science and technology needs help from thinkers, designers, makers, policymakers, and enablers - and this expertise often sits in the humanities, arts and social sciences domain.
A list with some open tools and resources, which hopefully, someone will find useful.
Sarah Quarmby takes a look inside a knowledge broker organisation, the Wales Centre for Public Policy, to see how its day-to-day workings tally with the body of knowledge about evidence use in policymaking.
Reaching higher uptake and acceptance of open science practice at the University of Göttingen.
Letters about women include more doubt-raising phrases than those about men, and that even one such phrase can make a difference in a job search.
Science needs to reckon with the #MeToo moment, and it needs to do so immediately, says a new report from the prestigious National Academies of Sciences.
Compared to White adults in the United States, Black adults are two-thirds as likely to hold a college degree and Latino adults are only half as likely – with both groups attaining degrees at a lower rate in 2016 than White adults did back in 1990, according to a new report by The Education Trust.
European Commission data and case studies covering access to scientific publications. Bibliometric data as well as well as data on the policies of journals and funders are available.
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Many of history's greatest scientists were also refugees. These are their stories.
Persistent identifiers (PIDs) provide unique keys for people, places, and things, which supports the research process by facilitating search, discovery, recognition, and collaboration. This article reviews the main PIDs used in research (DOIs, ORCIDs, ...), as well as demonstrating how they are being used, and how, in combination, they can increase trust in research and the research infrastructure.
Latin American researchers have a specific social commitment to ensure that their work is accessible and contributing to the good of their communities, says Victoriano Colodrón.
As someone with a deep appreciation of education and expertise, it’s troubling to know that college is just one more locus of skulduggery, veiled and overt.
One estimate puts the number of papers in questionable journals at 400'000.
Provided that adequate security safeguards were in place, most participants were willing to share their data for a wide range of uses.
Using version control and continuous integration, to create a modern data management system.
A cartoon showing how the feisty orange-black butterfly uses a toolbox of biological tricks to find its way down to Mexico for winter and flap north again in spring.
A regular pastime can ease mental stress, improve work–life balance and help scientists to reach innovative solutions in their work.
