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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
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.
Why I Am Suing the Government
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is alarming. Like many researchers in computing and social science, writing scripts, bots, or scrapers that collect online data is a normal part of my work.
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
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 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
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 is the first country where the subscription prices paid by practically all universities and research institutions to individual publishers are made available.
Why Collaboration in Research Matters: An Interview with Mark Hahnel, Founder of figshare
Why Collaboration in Research Matters: An Interview with Mark Hahnel, Founder of figshare
We interviewed Mark Hahnel, founder of figshare to discuss Collections, a new, free resource developed by the figshare team, and how researchers can use this.
PrePubMed
PrePubMed indexes preprints from arXiv q-bio, PeerJ Preprints, Figshare, bioRxiv, and F1000Research.
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
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
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
It is essential that computer programming to be taught in schools will lead to improving children’s ability to think logically and creatively.
Science: Disrupt
Podcast discussions with the innovators, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science.
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
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Journal Reviewer
JournalReviewer is an independent site that aggregates information users provide about their experience with academic journals' review processes.
EU action plan for Open Science
The Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science is the key outcome of the two-day conference ‘Open Science.
Denmark and Sweden take another look at how they investigate scientific misconduct
After a series of scandals in Nordic science, Denmark and Sweden are rethinking how they investigate allegations of academic fraud and misconduct.
Dare to share
This advisory report is about open science, and more specifically about access to scholarly publications (open access) and research data (open research data). What impact is this likely to have for the world of science itself, for society and for business? What level of openness is publicly desirable and what does this imply for government policy?
The SNSF has signed the Open Access 2020 initiative.
The Open Access 2020 international initiative aims to pursue the large-scale implementation of open access. The SNSF supports this endeavour.