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What Is Life Science?
If you're working on a research project in biology, you'll need citations in the life sciences. But what is life science? Here's a guide for researchers.
Discussion of Value Metrics for Data Repositories in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Discussion of Value Metrics for Data Repositories in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Approaches for assessing the costs and benefits of publishing scientific data in various repositories are evaluated. The article identifies metrics useful for the reporting of their data services.
Open Access in 2019: Which Countries Are the Biggest Publishers of OA Journals?
Open Access in 2019: Which Countries Are the Biggest Publishers of OA Journals?
Fifty percent of the open access journals listed in DOAJ in 2019 are published in Europe, and the United Kingdom is the biggest publisher of OA journals in DOAJ.
Automated Hacking, Deepfakes Are Going to Be Major Cybersecurity Threats in 2020
Automated Hacking, Deepfakes Are Going to Be Major Cybersecurity Threats in 2020
Artificial intelligence used to carry out automated, targeted hacking is set to be one of the major threats to look out for in 2020, according to a cybersecurity expert.
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
Science Groups, Senator Warn Trump Administration Not to Change Publishing Rulescdscdscdsc
Science Groups, Senator Warn Trump Administration Not to Change Publishing Rulescdscdscdsc
Letters blast rumored shift to immediate open access for taxpayer-funded studies
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
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
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?
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.
Rude Paper Reviews Are Pervasive and Sometimes Harmful, Study Finds
Researchers of color are particularly vulnerable to "unprofessional" comments.
Facts About George Church's DNA Dating Company
It's called Digid8 and will try to use your genes to make sure you never meet the wrong person.
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
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?
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'
He Jiankui's original research, published for the first time, could have failed, scientists say.
Understanding Public Discourse and Trust in a Digital Society
Understanding Public Discourse and Trust in a Digital Society
In a context where citizens struggle to distinguish facts from fabricated claims online, scientists, policymakers and media face similar dilemmas.
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 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.
Implementing the New EU Provision That Protects the Public Domain
An explanation of the mandatory provision in the new Copyright Directive that ensures that faithful reproductions of public domain works of visual art cannot be subject to exclusive rights.
Scientific Phenomena Photographs of the Year
An image of three perpetually bouncing droplets, whose behaviour embodies a key theory in quantum physics, has won first place in the Royal Society Publishing photography competition. The award celebrates science and its beauty as portrayed through photography
Why Sexual Harassment Needs Tougher Punishment
Grant and funding withdrawals should be considered in cases of sexual harrassment, say researchers.
Review Commons is Now LIVE
ASAPbio and EMBO Press have launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts in the life sciences before they are submitted to a journal.
Global Protests Reveal Bitcoin's Limitations - CoinDesk
Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild.
Open Innovation in OpenAIRE
We would like to inform you that the Open Call is launched again in a new form and slightly modified topics.
DOAB and OAPEN Jointly Selected for Second Funding Cycle SCOSS
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has selected OAPEN and DOAB for its second funding cycle.
Proposed Schema Changes - Have Your Say - Crossref
The first version of our metadata input schema (a DTD, to be specific) was created in 1999 to capture basic bibliographic information and facilitate matching DOIs to citations. Over the past 20 years the bibliographic metadata we collect has deepened, and we've expanded our schema to include funding information, license, updates, relations, and other metadata. Our schema isn't as venerable as a MARC record or as comprehensive as JATS, but it's served us well.