Journal experiments and surveys suggest scientists are coming round to the idea of publishing review reports. A few journals, such as PeerJ, the BMJ and F1000Research, already embrace open peer review in various different forms.
A collection of tools that might help your research if you adopt them early enough in your academic career.
Review found professionals in the field are scared to discuss views amid risk of reputational damage and online abuse
Twitter activity is a more important predictor of citation rates than 5-year journal impact factor. Moreover, Twitter activity is not driven by journal impact factor; the ‘highest-impact’ journals were not necessarily the most discussed online.
An increasing number of universities are ending, or threatening to end, bundled journal subscriptions with major publishers.
Tensions between Cuba and the United States are easing. But researchers still struggle to join the scientific world.
France may not have any money left for its universities but it does have money for academic publishers.
Scientists have reacted with alarm at a proposal by the Australian Department of Defence to control information sharing under which technology with potential military use would need authorization to be shared with non-Australian colleagues.
Consumer-oriented websites allow researchers to compare the merits of scientific journals and review their publishing experiences..
Nature Biotechnology asks peer reviewers to check accessibility of code used in computational studies.
A scandal over an academic’s use of Facebook data highlights the need for research scrutiny.
Saul Perlmutter tells that there is a ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of the purpose of research
Simply adding an ‘open access’ option to the existing prestige-based journal system at ever increasing costs is not the fundamental change publishing needs, says Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman
As part of its efforts to promote inclusiveness in research, eLife’s new Community Voices podcast provides a platform for scientists from diverse backgrounds to share their experiences.
Each country, scholarly field, and institution has developed responses to new scholarly communication systems, and those policies and responses influence the behavior of the scholars within those systems.
The NIH announced in December 2017 that it would rereview dozens of applications that might have been compromised in terms of confidentiality.
P Shravan Kumar aka Akiraa launched Research Funders, a platform to connect scientists with potential donors who can help fund their research and projects.
A playlist of all videos from OpenCon 2014, the Student and Early Career Conference on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.
An outpouring on Twitter highlights the acute pressures on young scientists.
Despite the importance of ambitious policy action for addressing climate change, large and systematic assessments of public policies and their design are lacking as analysing text manually is labour-intensive and costly. POLIANNA is a dataset of policy texts from the European Union (EU) that are annotated based on theoretical concepts of policy design, which can be used to develop supervised machine learning approaches for scaling policy analysis.
The desire for better evidence for public management, a growing movement calling for open access to the results of publicly funded research and the vastly increased power of computing and communications coincide to support policy interest in steering and sharing research results and data about them.
