A new ALLEA report provides key recommendations to make digital data in the humanities. The document is designed as a practical guide to navigate the shift towards a sustainable data sharing culture.
In this short piece Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at Wellcome and interim cOAlition S Coordinator provides an update on five key activities cOAlition S is currently supporting.
Failed funding applications are inevitable, but perseverance can pay dividends.
Experiments lost as labs remain closed; scientific meetings canceled or postponed.
Alison Mudditt looks at the recently released TOP Factor from the Center for Open Science, and the bigger picture of shifting the nature of research assessment.
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.
Researchers are used to being evaluated based on indices like the impact factors of the scientific journals in which they publish papers and their number of citations. A team of 14 natural scientists from nine countries are now rebelling against this practice, arguing that obsessive use of indices is damaging the quality of science.
Rows over eugenics reveal how difficult it is to 'decouple' controversial concepts in our heads.
A robot career adviser's personality assessment, based on analysis of tweets.
OPERAS runs a survey to find out more about social sciences and humanities (SSH) scholarly communication.
Up-to-the-minute reports and statistics can unintentionally distort the facts.
Public health scientists who have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are deeply concerned about its impact on global health and wellbeing.
John Malloy shares his experiences of risking debt to travel - and discusses what to do about it.
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and the University of California (UC) announced a two-year agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish in the nonprofit open access publisher’s suite of journals.
Back in 1972, NASA sent their last team of astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo 17 mission. These astronauts brought some of the Moon back to Earth so scientists could continue to study lunar soil in their labs. Since we haven't returned to the Moon in almost 50 years, every lunar sample is precious. We need to make them count for researchers now and in the future. In a new study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, scientists found a new way to analyze the chemistry of the Moon's soil using a single grain of dust.
Inappropriate practices of science have been suggested as causes of irreproducibility. This editorial proposes that a lack of raw data or data fabrication is another possible cause of irreproducibility.
Machine learning spots molecules that work even against 'untreatable' strains of bacteria.
Opinion piece argues that Plan S deals have streamlined open access provision in the global North while exacerbating existing inequalities in scholarly publishing, by establishing and entrenching a two-tier system of scholarly publishing based on access to funds.
Women mount stronger immune responses to infection, scientists say. And in China, men smoke in much greater numbers.
The new project will run during the first half of 2020. It is supported by Wellcome Trust, led by Information …
A study suggests that the productivity and impact of gender differences are explained by different publishing career lengths and dropout rates. This inequality in academic publishing has important consequences for institutions and policy makers.
Some publishers feared order making federally funded studies free
A leaked report for the world's major fossil fuel financier says Earth is on an unsustainable trajectory.
The virus doesn’t follow the news and doesn’t care about Twitter. This article proposes that reporting should distinguish between at least three levels of information reliability.
Draft of Brown study says findings suggest 'substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages'.
This article proposes measures and policies which can be adopted by journals and publishers to promote good practices in data sharing.
A new tool, created by the advocacy organization Center for Open Science, seeks to change editorial practices. Journals are scored based on ten different criteria, including availability of data and policies on preregistration.
Our largest encyclopedia overwhelmingly recognises the achievements of white men. For physicist Jess Wade, fighting this bias has been an uphill battle to ensure that the scientific contributions made by women and other under-represented communities aren’t lost to posterity.
Katherine Johnson, a NASA trailblazer, dies at 101.
