Five Things You Can Do Today to Make Tomorrow's Research Open
Early career researchers have an essential role to play in the move towards open research.
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Early career researchers have an essential role to play in the move towards open research.
As work on 2018 farm bill picks up pace, remember money spent on agricultural science is money well spent.
It might style itself as a grassroots movement but citizen science is little more than a cheap land-grab by big business.
A definition is nothing without action and engagement.
If your institution won’t break down barriers for you, do it yourself.
Golden OA creates a conflict of interest: in a situation where the number of scientists is larger than the number of available positions, both journals and scientists benefit from publishing as many articles as possible.
This Thanksgiving, we bring you four portraits of immigrants in tech—from the C-Suite to the gig economy.
While green and gold open access have been put forward as two worthy emperors, it is time to conclude that they are unclothed.
Creating a culture of replication takes prizes, grants and magnanimity — as well as publications.
Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, has called for political leaders to speak more about science and innovation to connect people with the life-changing research that is funded by their taxes and has the potential to combat urgent global problems.
High-risk, high-reward ideas in areas such as AI, blockchain and synthetic biology are typical contenders for support from the EU’s new Innovation Council.
The accusations against the Hollywood producer have prompted frank conversations about sexual misconduct. But it will still take a lot to shift how higher education treats such cases, experts say.
On the important role of professional medical writers in improving the quality of reports on clinical trials.
The independent High-Level Group of Innovators recommends bringing all relevant EU funding schemes into a single, fit-for-purpose 'one-stop-shop' for innovation financing.
Professor Aled Edwards asks why we need an Intellectual Property law.
A new system must build cross-sector collaboration, lower barriers to working together, and create excitement and tangible know-how to attract investment.
It’s clearly not open to all if scholars are required to pay to publish their results.
SciComm: Why it is essential, and how we can do it better.
Last week another nonprofit platform called ScholarlyHub announced its plans for a site where researchers can also exchange ideas and work—if they pay a subscription fee.
The importance of addressing researchers’ recognition and reward structures, arguing it is time to move to a system that uses metrics and indicators that incentivise the types of behaviours that are good for research and researchers.
Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is eager to see Gates Open Research match the performance of Wellcome Open Research.
The interests of the legacy publishers cannot co-exist with the ideals of the Open Access movement.
Information manipulation is not new, yet everything is different. How do governments, preprints, algorithms, and our own responsibilities intersect? Where does peer review come in now?
How do evolving forms of digital scholarship fit into the current landscape and what are the implications for publishers?