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Case Study on Researcher Strategies Against Fear of Scooping in the Context of Open Science

Case Study on Researcher Strategies Against Fear of Scooping in the Context of Open Science

Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.

Sci-Hub Provides Access to Nearly All Scholarly Literature

Sci-Hub Provides Access to Nearly All Scholarly Literature

Sci-Hub's contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals and 77.0% of the 5.2 million articles published by inactive journals.

Research Funding: The Case for a Modified Lottery

Research Funding: The Case for a Modified Lottery

On awarding research funds on the basis of a modified lottery in which peer review is used to identify the most meritorious proposals, from which funded applications are selected by lottery.

Study Finds Large Share of Cases Involving Faculty Harassment of Graduate Students Are Serious

Study Finds Large Share of Cases Involving Faculty Harassment of Graduate Students Are Serious

New study of harassment of graduate students by faculty members suggests that the problem is worse -- both in level of offense and prevalence of repeat offenders -- than many believe.

Becoming Professor. With Almost no Publications

Becoming Professor. With Almost no Publications

I think I am the only living person in Sweden who achieved a professor chair with only one international journal publication.

A Bibliometric Model for Identifying Emerging Research Topics

A Bibliometric Model for Identifying Emerging Research Topics

A set of criteria for the identification of emerging topics is proposed according to the adjusted definition and attributes of emergence. 

New ORFG Resource Provides Guidance to Funders Developing Open Policies

New ORFG Resource Provides Guidance to Funders Developing Open Policies

A guide intended to help research funders develop open policies that advance their organizational values.

Building the Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research

Building the Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research

Taking stock of the current state of interoperability across the PID landscape and to discuss the next steps towards an integrated research record.

Assessing the Potential for Crowdfunding

Assessing the Potential for Crowdfunding

This report provides an assessment of whether alternative finance has the potential to help Europe address the problem of access to finance for innovative companies and bridge the gap in terms of access to risk capital, and if EU action is needed to support development of the sector.