The Problems of Unit Costs Per Article
Every five minutes or so, someone tries to come up with a cost-per-article figure for academic publishing. Martin Paul Eve explains why he finds himself wanting to resist the temptation.
Project: Adopting Open Science Practices: Researcher Perspectives on Incentives and Disincentives: A Symposium
Project: Adopting Open Science Practices: Researcher Perspectives on Incentives and Disincentives: A Symposium
An ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public symposium in conjunction with the September 2019 meeting of the Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. The symposium will explore current barriers to adopting open science practices and how they might be addressed.
Guidelines on Criteria of Good Practice for Strenghtening Gender Equality Policies
MDPI Now Gives Scholars the Possibility to Endorse and Recommend Articles
MDPI Now Gives Scholars the Possibility to Endorse and Recommend Articles
MDPI is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journals since its establishment in 1996.
Myth-busting: All Open Access Journals Can Be Listed in DOAJ
This is a myth. People think that DOAJ exists to index all open access journals. A journal can only be indexed if it passes all of our criteria. The Directory of Everything Open Access The Director…
Evaluating FAIR Maturity Through a Scalable, Automated, Community-governed Framework
Evaluating FAIR Maturity Through a Scalable, Automated, Community-governed Framework
Transparent evaluations of FAIRness are increasingly required by a wide range of stakeholders, from scientists to publishers, funding agencies and policy makers. We propose a scalable, automatable framework to evaluate digital resources that encompasses measurable indicators, open source tools, and participation guidelines, which come together to accommodate domain relevant community-defined FAIR assessments. The components of the framework are: (1) Maturity Indicators - community-authored specifications that delimit a specific automatically-measurable FAIR behavior; (2) Compliance Tests - small Web apps that test digital resources against individual Maturity Indicators; and (3) the Evaluator, a Web application that registers, assembles, and applies community-relevant sets of Compliance Tests against a digital resource, and provides a detailed report about what a machine "sees" when it visits that resource. We discuss the technical and social considerations of FAIR assessments, and how this translates to our community-driven infrastructure. We then illustrate how the output of the Evaluator tool can serve as a roadmap to assist data stewards to incrementally and realistically improve the FAIRness of their resources.
Landmark 'United in Science' Report Informs Climate Action Summit
The world's leading climate science organizations have joined forces to produce a landmark new report for the United Nations Climate Action Summit, underlining the glaring - and growing gaps - between agreed targets to tackle global warming and the actual reality.
Can We Assess the Wider Effects of Public Engagement?
The extent to which researchers can assess the impact of their public engagement is often under-analysed and limited to success stories. Drawing on the example of development aid, it is argued that we need to widen the parameters for assessing public engagement.
If World Leaders Choose to Fail Us, My Generation Will Never Forgive Them | Greta Thunberg
If World Leaders Choose to Fail Us, My Generation Will Never Forgive Them | Greta Thunberg
We are in the middle of a climate breakdown, and all they can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth, says climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Die Großen Unis Zahlen Drauf
Wegen teurer Fachmagazine boykottierten Hochschulen lange Großverlage. Nun gibt es Einigungen zwischen beiden Seiten - aber glücklich sind nicht alle.
Turning Science into Business is About Recognising Opportunity
Scientists need to work more closely with entrepreneurs and financiers to ensure groundbreaking research in Europe can be turned into successful business opportunities, according to the recently appointed chair of the European Innovation Council's pilot advisory board.
Grad Student Unions Dealt Blow As Proposed New Rule Says Students Aren't 'employees'
Grad Student Unions Dealt Blow As Proposed New Rule Says Students Aren't 'employees'
The rule, if implemented, would hinder grad student unionization efforts at private U.S. universities.
43 Percent of White Students Harvard Admits Are Legacies, Jocks, or the Kids of Donors and Faculty
The World's Oceans Are in Danger, Major Climate Change Report Warns
Climate change is severely straining the world's oceans, creating profound risks for coastal cities and food supplies, a U.N. report finds.
Can You Spot the Duplicates? Critics Say These Photos of Lionfish Point to Fraud
The answer bears on whether a study about lionfish social behavior, published in Biology Letters in 2014, was fabricated.
AI Equal with Human Experts in Medical Diagnosis, Study Finds
Research suggests AI able to interpret medical images using deep learning algorithm.
Choices Made Now Are Critical for the Future of Our Ocean and Cryosphere - IPCC
Choices Made Now Are Critical for the Future of Our Ocean and Cryosphere - IPCC
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report highlights the urgency of prioritizing timely, ambitious and coordinated action to address unprecedented and enduring changes in the ocean and cryosphere.
Nature Walks Back Mentorship Prize for Spanish Scientist with Nine Retractions
Carlos Lopez-Otin Nature is rescinding an award to a Spanish researcher whose group has at least nine retractions for problems with their published images.
Briefing Paper on Open Access to Academic Books
The Science Europe Briefing Paper identifies the key issues at stake in implementing a policy of Open Access to academic books, and outlines recommendations for different stakeholder groups to facilitate and accelerate such a policy.
Down with Tenure, Equal Rights for All
All contracts for academic posts should be open-ended, and liable to termination: this is the opinion of the President of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences Antonio Loprieno.
Novelist Cormac McCarthy's Tips on How to Write a Great Science Paper
The Pulitzer prizewinner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself.
'The Way Universities Are Run is Making Us Ill': Inside the Student Mental Health Crisis
'The Way Universities Are Run is Making Us Ill': Inside the Student Mental Health Crisis
The long read: A surge in anxiety and stress is sweeping UK campuses. What is troubling students, and is it the universities' job to fix it?
Connecting fractured habitats has long-lasting ecological benefits
A decades-long ecological experiment in South Carolina has shown the power of a straightforward way to improve wildlife habitats: connect them. Scientists say the study’s results, published Thursday in the journal Science, offer the most compelling evidence yet that connected habitats flourish for years.
2019 Science in Society Journalism Award Winners
Announcing the winners of the 2019 Science in Society Journalism Awards, sponsored by the National Association of Science Writers.
What's in a Name? How False Author Affiliations Are Damaging Academic Research
What's in a Name? How False Author Affiliations Are Damaging Academic Research
When reading a research paper, can you be certain that the institution the author claims to be affiliated with is actually the institution that was responsible for supporting the research?
Report Cards on Women in STEM Fields Finds Much Room for Improvement
Data from a four-year study of institutional 'report cards' undertaken as part of the New York Stem Cell Foundation's (NYSCF) Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering (IWISE) suggest that although a growing number of women are training in the sciences, efforts to promote and maintain women in more senior scientific roles are still largely inadequate. The study is being reported Sept. 5 in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
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