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Springer Nature SciGraph: Supporting Open Science and the Wider Understanding of Research
Springer Nature SciGraph: Supporting Open Science and the Wider Understanding of Research
Pioneering semantic platform with Linked Open Data to serve the needs of the research community.
The Secret to Making Family Life Compatible with an Academic Career
Starting a family has less influence than before on the pursuit of an academic career for researchers.
Citation Cartel Or Editor Gone Rogue?
How much can a single editor distort the citation record? Investigation documents rogue editor's coercion of authors to cite his journal, papers.
"Getting it right: what are the best funding mechanisms for #innovation?" @Moedas
"Getting it right: what are the best funding mechanisms for #innovation?" @Moedas
Transcript of Moedas' speech on funding and innovation.
The Perfect Grant and How to Get It
To help scientists build a career, Pfunders must earmark cash, reduce emphasis on collaboration, and improve the application process.
Science Journalism Can Be Evidence-Based, Compelling — and Wrong
A ranking of the best science-news outlets misjudges the relationship between research and reporting.
The Future of Scientific Publishing
Open access publishing is gaining more and more momentum, and post-publication peer review is becoming more common. Those developments have both upsides and downsides.
Open Access Can Never Be Bad News
Several of us responded with enthusiasm to the recent news that The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened up their digitised collections.
Reproducible Science for People Who Don't Code
Stencila, an app for creating and viewing data-driven reproducible publications.
Transferring Skills Beyond the Lab
Leaving research doesn’t mean that the skills you developed will be wasted.
Citation Analytics Pioneer Eugene Garfield Dies, Aged 91
Citation Analytics Pioneer Eugene Garfield Dies, Aged 91
Founder of the Institute for Scientific Information passes away suddenly.
Illegal File Hosting Site, ResearchGate, Acquires Massive Financial Investment
Illegal File Hosting Site, ResearchGate, Acquires Massive Financial Investment
Financing massive-scale copyright infringement.
Earth 2050
If you are a futurist or make predictions, send them to us, and the whole world will see them.
The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review
The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review
The Edward Snowden of peer review.
Dokieli: Decentralised Article Publishing
A clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Researchers must seek out others’ deposited biological sequences in community databases, urges Franziska Denk.
A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story
A Post-Publication Peer Review Success Story
In 2016, Joel Pitt and Prof. Helene Hill published an intriguing paper with us looking at the prevalence of scientific fraud in preclinical research...
The Journal of Open Source Software
A free, open-access journal designed to publish brief papers about research software.
Why Scientists Shouldn’t Replicate Their Own Work
For a career-minded scientist, to fail to replicate your own work is worse than never doing the replication at all.
Open Access to Scientific Peer Reviewed Publications in Horizon 2020
The first data on the uptake of open access to publications in Horizon 2020.
Springer Nature Recommended
Recommended is a personalised service that suggests relevant papers to you, based on what you’ve previously read, from all publishers.
150+ Websites For Lifelong Learners
This list keeps being updated with more online educational resources.
Putting Evidence to Work for Policymakers
Although scientists often are urged to share their expertise with policymakers, the idea that evidence should drive policy is not always accepted.
Reproducible Data-Driven Discovery
Chronicle of a two-day workshop curriculum to teach reproducible research using an interactive computational environment.
Dutch Plan for Open Science
The motto being "as open as possible, as closed as necessary".