New Trends in Open Access Publications
The quality of scientific publications will benefit from a revolution in the peer review models.
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Vote now for the Open Science Prize
Vote now for he Open Science Prize, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the US NIH and the HHMI to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit.
Tool to Access Bibliometrics for Papers Associated with a Portfolio
iCite allows users ti upload the PubMed IDs of articles of interest, optionally grouping them for comparison. It then displays the number of articles, articles per year, citations per year, and Relative Citation Ratio, a field-normalized metric that shows the citation impact of one or more articles relative to the average NIH-funded paper.
Two-stage Calls - A real improvement in times of low success rates?
The relatively low success rates for applicants in most parts of Horizon 2020 have been heavily and unanimously criticized by the stakeholders. In response, the European Commission introduced more generally a proposal evaluation in two stages, in order to ease the burden of unsuccessful applicants during the first stage. This approach received a very positive feedback from the scientific communities.
BD2K Open Data Science Symposium
How Open Data and Open Science are Transforming Biomedical Research
SciHashtag.com
A collection of Twitter hashtags about science communication to facilitate engagement with academics and professionals on Twitter.
What to Do With the Data?
Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.
WIPO Adopts Open Access Policy for its Publications
The World Intellectual Property Organization today announced its new Open Access policy to promote the widest possible public access to its publications, furthering the Organization’s commitment to the dissemination and sharing of knowledge.
Science Disrupt London Sessions
Science is going through a revolution. The world of tech, startups, makers, innovators and collaborators are beginning to be welcomed in to the scientific ecosystem in a way never seen before. Science: Disrupt brings together the innovators, iconoclasts and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science. Join us at Digital Science for our 4th Science Disrupt London Session to Disrupt the Lab!
You Can Make GitHub Repositories Archival by Using Zenodo or Figshare
GitHub is not a solution to the problem of making scripts and software available as part of the permanent record of a publication. But the folk at Zenodo and Mozilla Science Lab (in collaboration with Figshare) have solutions for you now.
Infographics on Research Integrity
The Office of Research Integrity shares a series of infographics addressing the Responsible Conduct of Research and the handling of research misconduct.
Semantic Scholar
An academic search engine that utilizes artificial intelligence methods to provide highly relevant results and novel tools to filter them with ease.
The Threat of a Brain Drain Under a Trump Presidency Is Real
Top science and tech talent could choose to set up in other countries that are more hospitable to their work.
Active Genetics Goes Global
Tata Trusts and UC San Diego partner to establish Tata Institute for Active Genetics and Society.
Jisc Collections and Elsevier Sign Landmark Agreement
5-year subscription access to around 1,850 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect e-platform.
Why You Need to Publish Open Access
Articles published open access are cited more often than articles that are not. End of Story.
The Open Preprint Repository Network
A free, open source, preprints repository, api, and aggregator for arXiv, PeerJ, Research Papers in Economics, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, and others.
Keep Publicly Funded Research Public
When we pay for federally funded research, we should be allowed to read it. That’s the simple premise of FASTR, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act.
Who's Not Sharing Their Clinical Trial Results?
Explore our data to see the universities, government bodies and pharmaceutical companies that fail to share their clinical trial results.
Anti-globalization Rhetoric Threatens Scientific and Technological Progress
Anti-globalization Rhetoric Threatens Scientific and Technological Progress
The U.S. depends on international collaborations and immigrants to solve domestic and global problems.
Making Data and Tools Available for the World To See
At ATLAS, data sharing and an open, innovative approach to information collaboration has become a fundamental part of this important scientific community.
Interview with Professor Jim Smith
Jim Smith is a Professor of Developmental Biology at the Francis Crick Institute.
Maximizing the Local Economic Impact of Federal R&D
Federally funded research and development (R&D) is a hallmark of the U.S. economy but, it's under siege. To maximize and make apparent the economic returns from R&D, the next administration should seek to improve the local economic impact of federal R&D.
COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
COPE has produced some guidelines which set out the basic principles and standards to which all peer reviewers should adhere during the peer-review process in research publication. The aim has been to make them generic so that they can be applied across disciplines.
Susan Lindquist, Accomplished and Beloved Scientist, Has Died at Age 67
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit, independent research and educational institution known as a world leader in biomedical research.
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