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On the Changing Infrastructure of Scholarly Communication
Peter Suber and the Open Access Movement
Open Data and Open Science Policies Across Europe
A SPARC analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies across Europe.
Publicity or Perish: Finding the Balance in Science Communication
Publicity or Perish: Finding the Balance in Science Communication
The time that you’re absolutely sick of saying it is about the time that your target audience has heard it for the first time.
The Future Of Libraries Is Collaborative, Robotic, And Participatory
The Future Of Libraries Is Collaborative, Robotic, And Participatory
Libraries can survive these times of technological upheaval, but they’re going to have to change–and fast.
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
How several free software tools have fundamentally upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire workflow more transparent and streamlined.
Harnessing Serendipity
Innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works
The Interdisciplinary Research Collection
The Interdisciplinary Research Collection highlights 11 articles that exemplify the diversity of interdisciplinary research published in PLOS ONE.
Meta-Assessment of Bias in Science
Science is said to be suffering a reproducibility crisis caused by many biases. How common are these problems, across the wide diversity of research fields? We probed for multiple bias-related patterns in a large random sample of meta-analyses taken from all disciplines.
Austrian Science Fund Open Research Data Pilot Report
Austrian Science Fund Open Research Data Pilot Report
Supporting the development of new models for open research data in the digital age.
Do ResearchGate Scores Create Ghost Academic Reputations?
Is it reasonable to employ the ResearchGate Score as evidence of scholarly reputation?
Cooperation And Liaison Between Universities And Editors (CLUE)
Recommendations on best practice
Transparency In Authors' Contributions And Responsibilities To Promote Integrity In Scientific Publication
Transparency In Authors' Contributions And Responsibilities To Promote Integrity In Scientific Publication
Research institutions should have regular open conversations on authorship criteria and ethics and that funding agencies adopt ORCID and accept CRediT.
We Can Shift Academic Culture Through Publishing Choices
Choices researchers can make to stop exploiting themselves and discriminating against others.
Brainstorming Is Not the Way to Discuss Scientific Issues
An intellectual free-for-all doesn’t lead to the common ground on which research can build.
Journal Publishers' Big Deals: Are They Worth It?
With exponential increases that reached 402% over a 20-year span, the spiralling cost of these large bundles rapidly put pressure on available budgets for books and journals from smaller learned societies.
Ten Simple Rules to Consider Regarding Preprint Submission
We formulate ten simple rules for considering using preprints as a scientific communication mechanism.
Survey on Open Peer Review
The results of a cross-disciplinary survey show that the majority of respondents are in favour of Open Peer Review becoming mainstream scholarly practice, as they also are for other areas of Open Science, like Open Access and Open Data.
What Might Peer Review Look Like in 2030?
A report based on the sessions at the SpotOn London conference held at Wellcome Collection Conference centre in November 2016.
The Influence of Journal Submission Guidelines on Authors' Reporting of Statistics and Use of Open Research Practices
The Influence of Journal Submission Guidelines on Authors' Reporting of Statistics and Use of Open Research Practices
Study suggesting that journal-specific submission guidelines may encourage desirable changes in authors’ practices.
Opening the Vault of Journal Subscription and Open Access Expenditures
For years, there was no overview of what the total amount being paid for journal subscriptions was per institute or on a national level.
International Student Table 2017
Explore the universities with the highest percentage of international students.
Machine Learning Requires Careful Stewardship Says Royal Society
Urgent consideration needs to be given to the “careful stewardship” needed over the next ten years to ensure that the dividends from machine learning – the form of artificial intelligence that allows machines to learn from data.
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
The pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the biomedical literature.
What We Can Learn From Tweets Linking to Research Papers
3 basic issues inherent in using tweets for research evaluation: whose tweets can be used to assess a paper, what objects can be evaluated, and how to score the paper according to each tweet.
An Open Source Pharma Roadmap
How open source methods of working could be applied to the discovery and development of new medicines.
What All Those Scientists on Twitter Are Really Doing
Analysis reveals that female researchers are over-represented on the social-media site and that mathematicians and life scientists are less likely to use it.
Anticipated Effects of an Open Access Policy at a Private Foundation
Evaluating the impact of the Moore Foundation Open Access new policy.