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More Readers in More Places: The Benefits of Open Access for Scholarly Books

More Readers in More Places: The Benefits of Open Access for Scholarly Books

New report published by Springer Nature analyses usage patterns across open access and closed books.The results show higher geographic diversity of usage, higher numbers of downloads and more citations for open access books.

How the Coronavirus Attacks the Brain

How the Coronavirus Attacks the Brain

It's not just the lungs - the pathogen may enter brain cells, causing symptoms like delirium and confusion, scientists reported.

The New Age of Preprints: Enhanced, Reproducible, and Reusable

The New Age of Preprints: Enhanced, Reproducible, and Reusable

Invest in Open Infrastructure receives initial funding to launch and hire a Director.

A Robot Wrote This Entire Article. Are You Scared Yet, Human?

A Robot Wrote This Entire Article. Are You Scared Yet, Human?

We asked GPT-3, OpenAI's powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace.

Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished from the Internet, and No One Preserved Them

Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished from the Internet, and No One Preserved Them

Most open access journals lack the technical means and plans to preserve their articles, despite a mandate from some funders that they do so. Specialists worry about a potential loss to scholarship.

Shorter Lifespan of Faster-growing Trees Will Add to Climate Crisis, Study Finds

Shorter Lifespan of Faster-growing Trees Will Add to Climate Crisis, Study Finds

Rise in carbon capture as global warming speeds growth of forests would be negated by earlier deaths, say scientists.

Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine

Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine

Universal facial masking might help reduce the severity of SARS-CoV-2 and ensure that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.

GII 2020: COVID-19 Impact on Global Innovation; Annual Ranking Topped by Switzerland, Sweden, U.S., U.K. and Netherlands

GII 2020: COVID-19 Impact on Global Innovation; Annual Ranking Topped by Switzerland, Sweden, U.S., U.K. and Netherlands

The COVID-19 pandemic is severely pressuring a long-building rise in worldwide innovation, likely hindering some innovative activities while catalyzing ingenuity elsewhere, notably in the health sector, according to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020.

The FBI Is Warning Scientists To Watch Out For "Suspicious" Packages

The FBI Is Warning Scientists To Watch Out For "Suspicious" Packages

After COVID-19 researchers on the East Coast received a package containing an "unknown substance," the University of Washington told 500 of its staff to be on alert.

Coronavirus: Fears UK Government Has Lost Control As Covid Cases Soar

Coronavirus: Fears UK Government Has Lost Control As Covid Cases Soar

UKs Labour Party calls on health secretary to explain reasons behind increase and testing centre problems.

These Students Figured out Their Tests Were Graded by AI - and the Easy Way to Cheat

These Students Figured out Their Tests Were Graded by AI - and the Easy Way to Cheat

Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it.

COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven't Had Any Symptoms

COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven't Had Any Symptoms

A growing body of research is raising concerns about the cardiac consequences of the coronavirus.

Vaccine Group Says 76 Rich Countries Now Committed to 'COVAX' Access Plan

Vaccine Group Says 76 Rich Countries Now Committed to 'COVAX' Access Plan

Seventy-six wealthy nations are now committed to joining a global COVID-19 vaccine allocation plan co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) that aims to help buy and fairly distribute the shots, the project's co-lead said on Wednesday.