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Text & Data Mining

Text & Data Mining

Technologies based on the electronic analysis of large amounts of works are still in their infancy, and the possibilities they might open up in the future are largely unpredictable.

Some things you need to know about Google Scholar

Some things you need to know about Google Scholar

Google Scholar is great, but its inclusiveness and mix of automatically updated and hand-curated profiles means you should never take any of its numbers at face value.

The number games

The number games

In our global survey on innovations in scholarly communication, we asked researchers what tools they use for a large number of activities across the research cycle.

Cutting through the Mysteries of Journal and Article Pricing

Cutting through the Mysteries of Journal and Article Pricing

APCs are priced to reflect what the market will bear, which may or may not having anything to do with actual cost, since the “journal’s editorial and technical processes” are only one factor in the overall pricing.

Higher Education Institutions Will Risk Funding Penalties if They Fail to Address Gender Inequality

Higher Education Institutions Will Risk Funding Penalties if They Fail to Address Gender Inequality

Higher education institutions will risk funding being withheld if they fail to address gender inequality in the coming years.  That’s one of the outcomes of a report published on gender equality in higher education.  The report was compiled by the Expert Group commissioned by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) to undertake a national review of gender equality in higher education institutions.  The Expert Group was chaired by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.

Don’t change your family-friendly tenure extension policy just yet

Don’t change your family-friendly tenure extension policy just yet

An analysis to the NYT article entitled "A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors"

Sci-Hub: access or convenience? A Utrecht case study (part 1)

Sci-Hub: access or convenience? A Utrecht case study (part 1)

Sci-Hub has gained fame and notoriety for enabling free access to over 45 million paywalled articles and book chapters, purportedly collected through use of institutional log-in credentials.

Vienna Principles: a vision for scholarly communication

Vienna Principles: a vision for scholarly communication

A set of twelve principles that represent the cornerstones of the future scholarly communication system. They are designed to provide a coherent frame of reference for the debate on how to improve the current system. With this document, we are hoping to inspire a widespread discussion towards a shared vision for scholarly communication in the 21st century.

Finland takes leading role in the openness of academic journal pricing

Finland takes leading role in the openness of academic journal pricing

Finland is the first country where the subscription prices paid by practically all universities and research institutions to individual publishers are made available.

Why is scientific sexism so intractably resistant to reform?

Why is scientific sexism so intractably resistant to reform?

Harassment drove me out of physics 30 years ago and little has changed. Why is scientific sexism so intractable?

Why research for the pure sake of knowing is good enough

Why research for the pure sake of knowing is good enough

Duke University biologist Sheila Patek has faced criticism from lawmakers over her research into mantis shrimp and trap-jaw ants, with some calling her government-funded studies a waste of taxpayer money. But according to Patek, not only do her findings have important practical applications, but scientific inquiry is most fruitful when knowledge is sought for its own sake, not to justify budgets.

Annotation might be the future of fact-checking

Annotation might be the future of fact-checking

Climate Feedback, a scientist-led effort to “peer review” the world’s climate journalism, is closing in on its $30,000 crowdfunding target.

The SciHub Data Part 2: Academic Pirates

The SciHub Data Part 2: Academic Pirates

How many people are actually using Sci-Hub to download publications while they are in universities?

Plan to make programming mandatory at schools a step to foster creativity

Plan to make programming mandatory at schools a step to foster creativity

It is essential that computer programming to be taught in schools will lead to improving children’s ability to think logically and creatively.

Brain drain / brain gain (with a focus on Spain)

Brain drain / brain gain (with a focus on Spain)

The rate of foreign scientists and students has been for a long time identified as a key factor for innovation and economic competitiveness.

Why Altmetric scores should never be used to measure the merit of scientific publications

Why Altmetric scores should never be used to measure the merit of scientific publications

Or 'how to tweet your way to honour and glory'.

Monetary distribution effects of Horizon 2020

Monetary distribution effects of Horizon 2020

A look at Horizon 2020 in terms of monetary redistribution between Member States.