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Springer Nature And Germany´s Projekt DEAL Finalise World´s Largest Transformative Open Access Agreement

Springer Nature And Germany´s Projekt DEAL Finalise World´s Largest Transformative Open Access Agreement

Springer Nature and Max Planck Digial Library on behalf of Projekt DEAL announce that the formal contract for the world’s largest transformative Open Access (OA) agreement to date has been signed.

UC Response to Publisher Letter Opposing Immediate Open Access to Federally Funded Research

UC Response to Publisher Letter Opposing Immediate Open Access to Federally Funded Research

Ivy Anderson and Jeff MacKie-Mason, who co-chair the team overseeing UC's publisher negotiations strategy, have provided the following response to a recent open letter in which a number of commercial and society journal publishers voiced their opposition to a policy, rumored to be under discussion by the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, that would require federally funded research be made freely available to the public immediately upon publication, rather than within 12 months as current policy stipulates.  The University of California believes the public should have access to publicly-funded research, freely and immediately upon publication. We are deeply …

In 2030, We Ended the Climate Emergency. Here's How

In 2030, We Ended the Climate Emergency. Here's How

If words make worlds, then we urgently need to tell a new story about the climate crisis. Here is one vision of what it could look and feel like to radically, collectively take action.

The Inside Story of How Scientists Produced an Ebola Vaccine

The Inside Story of How Scientists Produced an Ebola Vaccine

For years, scientists poured their hearts into work to develop vaccines. And, for years, they saw promising work smash up against unscalable walls.

What Do Our Researchers Think About the EOSC?

What Do Our Researchers Think About the EOSC?

Researchers are at the very heart of the EOSC. So, what do our researchers say one year after the launch of the initiative? How do they think will they benefit from the EOSC? What are and what can be their roles? Let's see what physicist Toma Susi has to say.

What Fossils Will Modern-day Civilization Leave Behind?

What Fossils Will Modern-day Civilization Leave Behind?

Science chats with two experts about what future paleontologists-or perhaps even visiting aliens-might find.

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2019

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2019

As I do every year, I picked my ten favorite visualization projects. Here they are in no particular order.

Sharing Your Work by Self-archiving: Encouragement from the Journal of the Medical Library Association | Goben | Journal of the Medical Library Association

Sharing Your Work by Self-archiving: Encouragement from the Journal of the Medical Library Association | Goben | Journal of the Medical Library Association

Sharing your work by self-archiving: encouragement from the Journal of the Medical Library Association

Inferring the Causal Effect of Journals on Citations

Inferring the Causal Effect of Journals on Citations

Articles in high-impact journals are by definition more highly cited on average. But are they cited more often because the articles are somehow "better"? Or are they cited more often simply because they appeared in a high-impact journal?

COAlition S Reaction to Springer Nature's Open Letter on Transformative Journals

COAlition S Reaction to Springer Nature's Open Letter on Transformative Journals

An opportunity for journals and publishers to take the bold step of changing their business model?

ERC Awards over €600 Million to Europe's Top Researchers

ERC Awards over €600 Million to Europe's Top Researchers

How will climate change shape the Earth's surface? What are the long-term health effects of food additives? How can online tools change political advocacy and what does this mean for democracy? These are just some of the questions that researchers from around Europe have proposed to explore, and will now be able to, thanks to newly-awarded EU funding.

Can A Research Accelerator Solve The Psychology Replication Crisis?

Can A Research Accelerator Solve The Psychology Replication Crisis?

The Psychological Science Accelerator isn't the only project seeking to address the reproducibility problem. But the accelerator is unique in two ways. First, collaborators plan to continue to work on large-scale efforts indefinitely. And second, the accelerator isn't necessarily limited to replication studies, opening it to novel and exploratory work.

Knowledge Sector Takes Major Step Forward in New Approach to Recognising and Rewarding Academics

Knowledge Sector Takes Major Step Forward in New Approach to Recognising and Rewarding Academics

Academics can excel in many areas, but thus far they have primarily been assessed based on research achievements. From now on, the public knowledge institutions and research funders want to consider academics' knowledge and expertise more broadly in determining career policy and grant requirements.

Building the Foundation for Future Research Through Open Data, Code and Protocols

Building the Foundation for Future Research Through Open Data, Code and Protocols

We explore the components that can support reproducibility by making research more easily verifiable: data, code, and protocols.

Serotonin and Dopamine Responsible for the Pros and Cons of MDMA

Serotonin and Dopamine Responsible for the Pros and Cons of MDMA

A study in mice suggests serotonin release underlies the drug's prosocial effects while dopamine mediates the rewarding properties that drive its potential for abuse.

Why Can't We Agree on What's True Any More?

Why Can't We Agree on What's True Any More?

It's not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access to the 'real' facts - and now we can't stop fighting about it.

China Gene-edited Baby Experiment 'may Have Created Unintended Mutations'

China Gene-edited Baby Experiment 'may Have Created Unintended Mutations'

He Jiankui's original research, published for the first time, could have failed, scientists say.

Anger As Protesters Barred from UN Climate Talks

Anger As Protesters Barred from UN Climate Talks

Around 200 environmental campaigners are barred from climate talks after Greta Thunberg speaks.

Congress Creates Two New Bodies to Tackle Foreign Influence on U.S. Research

Congress Creates Two New Bodies to Tackle Foreign Influence on U.S. Research

Congress is set to approve a major defense bill that would establish two new high-level bodies aimed at preventing foreign governments from unfairly exploiting the U.S.