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Now Is the Time for Open Access Policies - Here's Why

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Now Is the Time for Open Access Policies - Here's Why

The race to find a vaccine for COVID-19 exemplifies why rapid and unrestricted access to scientific research and educational materials is vital.

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Dimensions: COVID-19 Publications, Datasets and Clinical Trials

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Dimensions: COVID-19 Publications, Datasets and Clinical Trials

This file contains all relevant publications, datasets and clinical trials from Dimensions that are related to COVID-19.

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NSF Marshals Data Science, Blockchain to Streamline Federal Grant Processing

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NSF Marshals Data Science, Blockchain to Streamline Federal Grant Processing

The National Science Foundation is testing a creative mix of machine learning, blockchain technology and data science to tackle a stubborn challenge: How to better evaluate more than 60,000 grant applications it receives each year.

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Why the Coronavirus Has Been So Successful

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Why the Coronavirus Has Been So Successful

We've known about SARS-CoV-2 for only three months, but scientists can make some educated guesses about where it came from and why it's behaving in such an extreme way.

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Science Papers You Should Be Reading About the Coronavirus

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Science Papers You Should Be Reading About the Coronavirus

Here are a few of the papers our scientists are reading that you might want to check out, too.

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The Move to Online College is Hitting Adjunct Professors the Hardest

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Universities
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The Move to Online College is Hitting Adjunct Professors the Hardest

Non-tenure track faculty at community and city colleges across the country told Motherboard they have not received sufficient pay, training, or equipment to teach classes online-and the consequences could be devastating for students.

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Coronavirus and Mild Winter Helps Germany to Reach 2020 Climate Target

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Coronavirus and Mild Winter Helps Germany to Reach 2020 Climate Target

Think-tank Agora Energiewende calculates emissions to drop by 50-120m tonnes this year but warns of lower green investments post-crisis

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Swiss COVID19 Tracker

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Swiss COVID19 Tracker

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Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance

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Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance

What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time

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10 Days That Changed Britain: "Heated" Debate Between Scientists Forced Boris Johnson To Act On Coronavirus

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10 Days That Changed Britain: "Heated" Debate Between Scientists Forced Boris Johnson To Act On Coronavirus

It was on Wednesday, March 11 that some of the experts on the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies began to realise that the coronavirus was spreading through the UK too fast for the NHS to cope.

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How ProMED Crowdsourced the Arrival of Covid-19 and SARS

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How ProMED Crowdsourced the Arrival of Covid-19 and SARS

The low-tech site run by health experts collects reports of new diseases in real time. They've got a shoestring budget-and a stunning track record.

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'I'm Going to Keep Pushing.' Anthony Fauci Tries to Make the White House Listen to Facts of the Pandemic

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'I'm Going to Keep Pushing.' Anthony Fauci Tries to Make the White House Listen to Facts of the Pandemic

The infectious disease researcher has become the United States's most trusted coronavirus expert.

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Covid-19: How Unprecedented Data Sharing Has Led to Faster-than-ever Outbreak Research

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Covid-19: How Unprecedented Data Sharing Has Led to Faster-than-ever Outbreak Research

Advances in gene sequencing have allowed scientists to trace and monitor the COVID-19 pandemic faster than any previous outbreak. However, gaps in our knowledge of how coronaviruses work has made it difficult to understand what makes the new coronavirus special.

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How the Virus Got Out

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How the Virus Got Out

Scientists analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show why the most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven't been enough.

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Airborne Nitrogen Dioxide Plummets Over China

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Airborne Nitrogen Dioxide Plummets Over China

NO2 amounts have dropped with the coronavirus quarantine, Chinese New Year, and a related economic slowdown.

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Antibodies from COVID-19 Survivors Could Be Used to Treat Patients, Protect Those at Risk

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Antibodies from COVID-19 Survivors Could Be Used to Treat Patients, Protect Those at Risk

Infusions of antibody-laden blood have been used with reported success in prior outbreaks, including the SARS epidemic and the 1918 flu pandemic.

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Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine Hippos' Show How Invasive Species Can Restore a Lost World

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Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine Hippos' Show How Invasive Species Can Restore a Lost World

Descendants of the drug lord's pets bear similarities to extinct megafauna

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When Science Needs Self-Correcting

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When Science Needs Self-Correcting

Admitting scientific errors is hard. It's also important.

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Covid-19 is Reshaping the World of Bioscience Publishing

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Biomedicine
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Covid-19 is Reshaping the World of Bioscience Publishing

Bioscience publishing, from preprint servers to established medical journals, is finding new and faster ways to publish Covid-19 research results.

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What's Wrong with the H-Index, According to Its Inventor

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What's Wrong with the H-Index, According to Its Inventor

Love it or hate it, the H-index has become one of the most widely used metrics in academia for measuring the productivity and impact of researchers. But when Jorge Hirsch proposed it as an objective measure of scientific achievement in 2005, he didn’t think it would be used outside theoretical physics.

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"Remove Paywalls on Scientific Publications!"

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"Remove Paywalls on Scientific Publications!"

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, swissuniversities, the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries appeal to all publishing houses to make their publications freely accessible.

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Authors Overestimate Their Contribution to Scientific Work, Demonstrating a Strong Bias

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Careers

Authors Overestimate Their Contribution to Scientific Work, Demonstrating a Strong Bias

Teamwork is an essential component of science. It affords the exchange of ideas and the execution of research that can entail high levels of complexity and scope.

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Researchers Are Tracking Another Pandemic, Too-of Coronavirus Misinformation

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Fake News

Researchers Are Tracking Another Pandemic, Too-of Coronavirus Misinformation

Ironically, the spread of false information often reflects a desire to help

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The Professors Who Call 'Bullshit' on Covid-19 Misinformation

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Fake News

The Professors Who Call 'Bullshit' on Covid-19 Misinformation

Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom are policing Twitter feeds, Medium posts, and other sources of bad data and misleading charts.

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Can a Century-old TB Vaccine Steel the Immune System Against the New Coronavirus?

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Can a Century-old TB Vaccine Steel the Immune System Against the New Coronavirus?

Scientists launch trial of bacillus Calmette-Guérin, a vaccine made of living bacteria, to protect health care workers at risk of COVID-19 infection.

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WHO Launches Global Megatrial of the Four Most Promising Coronavirus Treatments

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WHO Launches Global Megatrial of the Four Most Promising Coronavirus Treatments

Simple design aims to let even overwhelmed physicians and hospitals participate

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How Blood from Coronavirus Survivors Might Save Lives

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How Blood from Coronavirus Survivors Might Save Lives

New York City researchers hope antibody-rich plasma can keep people out of intensive care.

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Peer Review: Publishing in the Time of COVID-19

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Peer Review: Publishing in the Time of COVID-19

eLife is making changes to its policies on peer review in response to the impact of COVID-19 on the scientific community.

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Coronavirus Exposes the Problems and Pitfalls of Modelling

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Coronavirus Exposes the Problems and Pitfalls of Modelling

Models based on assumptions in the absence of data can be over-speculative and 'open to gross over-interpretation'.

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Trump Wants to 'Reopen America.' Here's What Happens if We Do.

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Trump Wants to 'Reopen America.' Here's What Happens if We Do.

Many could die if we ease up too soon.

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