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Open Economics Guide: More Than 160 Open Science Tools - Now Much Easier to Explore

Open Economics Guide: More Than 160 Open Science Tools - Now Much Easier to Explore

The ZBW Open Economics Guide now features more than 160 useful Open Science tools for everyday research. The catalogue has recently undergone a major overhaul, with new filtering and sorting options making it much easier to navigate and find the right tools.

Nations Expanding Their Research Programmes Impose Sweeping Penalties for Malpractice

Nations Expanding Their Research Programmes Impose Sweeping Penalties for Malpractice

India, Peru and Vietnam are rolling out policies that limit opportunities for scientists who fall foul of research-integrity guidelines.

Surprising AI breakthroughs raise soul-searching questions for mathematicians

Surprising AI breakthroughs raise soul-searching questions for mathematicians

Whether mathematics thrives or perishes in the age of AI depends on what it is that society values in the human intellect.

EU Set to Bring in World-leading Screening to Prevent Man-made Pandemics

EU Set to Bring in World-leading Screening to Prevent Man-made Pandemics

The EU’s proposed Biotech Act will bring in one of the world’s first mandatory screening mechanisms to stop risky fragments of DNA falling into the wrong hands and potentially triggering a man-made pandemic.

Small research ecosystems in large international public policies: Tracing an infrastructurally mediated pathway from CroRIS to Overton

Small research ecosystems in large international public policies: Tracing an infrastructurally mediated pathway from CroRIS to Overton

Policy document citations are increasingly used to evidence the societal impact of research, yet we know little about how such indicators operate in small research systems

For a Decade CRediT Has Quietly Reshaped Academic Authorship - What Comes Next?

For a Decade CRediT Has Quietly Reshaped Academic Authorship - What Comes Next?

The CredIT taxonomy has become a feature of academic publishing, but has its potential for creating research insights been fully exploited?

Is the Scientific Paper Still a Fraud?

Is the Scientific Paper Still a Fraud?

How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science, masking the human in the process by design. We should consider the structure of the scientific paper, and the need to celebrate the human in an age when AI threatens to overwhelm us.

Co-constructing the ERC Proposal: Grant Writing Support Professionals, Domains of Expertise and Value Conflicts

Co-constructing the ERC Proposal: Grant Writing Support Professionals, Domains of Expertise and Value Conflicts

Professional grant-writing advisers help researchers construct ERC proposals—and thereby influence what institutions present as competitive science, affecting efforst to change research culture.