Exploring the Mysteries of Go with AlphaGo and China's Top Players
We’re collaborating with the China Go Association and Chinese Government to bring AlphaGo, China’s top Go players, and leading AI experts together for the “Future of Go Summit.”
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Using Altmetrics to Measure Research Impact
Altmetrics is a novel method to track and measure the social impact of scientific publications and also the influence of a researcher.
Economic Challenges Stagnate Scientific Output
Scientific output in Japan has seen a sharp decline in the last decade due to years of inflation, government debt, rising commodity prices and a series of natural disasters.
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.
Institute Announces New Open Access Policy for All MIT Authors
Optional license allows students, researchers, and staff to make scholarly articles freely available.
Initiative for Open Citations
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.
Global Coalition Pushes for Unrestricted Sharing of Scholarly Citation Data
A coalition of scholarly publishers, researchers, and nonprofit organizations launched the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a project to promote the unrestricted open access to scholarly citation data.
Mapping Digital Health Startups Across The Globe
While the US accounts for 75% of global digital health deal share, deal flow to international startups continues to climb.
Tim Berners-Lee Wins $1 million Turing Award
MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee has won the most prestigious honor in computer science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award. Often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize provided by Google.
OpenScienceDB.com
Open Science DB is a grassroots movement led by graduate students in science who aspire to make scientific research more accessible to the public.
Why We Are Marching for Science
The vision for what is hoped to be the largest science advocacy event in history.
ALLEA Publishes Revised Edition of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
ALLEA Publishes Revised Edition of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
The revised Code addresses recent and emerging challenges emanating from technological developments, open science, citizen science and social media, among other areas.
The Price of Publishing With GitHub, Figshare, G+, Etc
Discovering that there is a way to get out from the situation which keeps us locked into the legacy publishing system.
Should Artificial Intelligence Be Used in Science Publishing?
Advances in automation technology mean that robots and artificial intelligence programs are capable of performing an ever-greater share of our work,
The Practice of Reproducible Research
Case studies and lessons from the data-intensive science.
OpenTrials, an Open Database for Clinical Trials
OpenTrials is an open database for clinical trials developed by Open Knowledge International to help researchers and patients get useful information from clinical trial materials.
The Importance of School Libraries in the Google Age
We continue to hear about the lack of trained library staff in schools, despite ongoing research indicating that the presence of teacher librarians leads to improved learning outcomes. Kay Oddone highlights the many benefits teacher librarians can bring to the wider school, and why their role is integral to the learning of both students and staff.
Citation Cartels ad The Mafia of Scientific Publishing
Citation cartels are groups of researchers and journals that team up with the specific intent of affecting the number of citations their publications receive.
The Selfish Scientist’s Guide to Preprint Posting
Preprint posting is the right thing to do for science and society. It enables us to share our results earlier, speeding up the pace of science.
Reflections from the Open Science Conference 2017
A report from the the Open Science Conference in Berlin last week.
Leaked Elsevier Contract Reveals Pushback
On the day of the hearing between Elsevier and the Dutch universities ScienceGuide has uncovered the contract which publicity was the centre of the dispute. The open access paragraph in the contract reveals how Elsevier plans to fight open access every step of the way.
Taking On Chemistry's Reproducibility Problem
Efforts to get to grips with the problem have meant new ideas and technologies are now being brought to bear
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