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The Digital Industrial Revolution
As machine learning surpasses human intelligence, where does that leave us? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about the exciting — and terrifying — future of human-robot collaboration.
The Ethics and Economics of Academic Publishing
Is it unethical for a Publisher to extract content from an academic author and commercially benefit from the sale of this without returning any of the economic gains back to the provider of that content or his/her employer?
Historic Co-Authorships Speed up Editor Handling Times
Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.
Mozilla Learning: Web Literacy
A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills.
ProgrammingHistorian.org
A novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.
SHERPA RoMEO: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving
SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving.
A World Without Science — Part 1: Infectious Diseases
Advances in science and public health policy have saved over 107 million lives in 25 years.
A Story About Science Together
The unconference about tools and rules in collaborative research.
Open Knowledge Maps
Open Knowledge Maps is a visualization tool for researchers that allows them to view groupings of manuscripts that share common words when searching for a new research topic
Nature Index Country Collaboration
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.
Five Reasons Blog Posts Sre of Higher Scientific Quality than Journal Articles
In this blog, I will examine the hypothesis that blogs are, on average, of higher quality than journal articles.
Science Is the Name but Collaboration Is the Game
The growing need for collaboration among young scientists is more essential now than ever before, with careers in research becoming more uncertain and perilous.
What Are the Barriers to Post-Publication Peer Review?
What Are the Barriers to Post-Publication Peer Review?
Post-publication peer review emerged in response to increased calls for continuous moderation of the published research literature.
It's Time to Change what we Value in Science
A message from eLife early career group made up of graduate students, post docs, and junior group leaders of the eLife early-career advisory board.
Scientists Are Getting Proactive About Self-Corrections
The process for correcting a published article can be needlessly burdensome. So some researchers have decided to take matters into their own hands.
We Cannot Rely on For-Profit Corporations to Build Open Scholarly Infrastructure
We Cannot Rely on For-Profit Corporations to Build Open Scholarly Infrastructure
There is an important point here: we simply can’t build a meaningfully open scholarly infrastructure that is dependent on the whims of corporations. It can’t be done.
Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
The Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication, which was in the planning since 4 years, will be held September 10-12, 2017, in Chicago.
OA2020.org Initiative
An international initiative that aims to induce the swift, smooth and scholarly-oriented transformation of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing.
These Startups Are Ditching the Uber Model and Hiring Full-Time Workers
A second generation of gig economy startups is abandoning a dependence on contractors in favor of full employees.
Data From 14 Million Papers Is Now Available for Free
Data From 14 Million Papers Is Now Available for Free
A new organization, I4OC, is working towards making reliable, structured data of authors, reference lists, and citations accessible to the public.
March for Science Geneva
On April 22nd, 2017, the March For Science, Geneva, will be one of hundreds of marches taking place around the world to affirm that science is crucial to society — and belongs to everyone.
OMICtools: Bioinformatics Software and Database Search Engine
OMICtools bridges the gap between life science and computational biology.
A Growing Phobia: Supervisor Phobia
If you are terrified to meet with your supervisor, start with small doses.