Gender Bias From A Woman In Science
If sexual harassment, misconduct, and retaliation are the firing squads that assassinate individual careers, then implicit bias is the lead in the water that poisons the entire town.
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How Digital Technologies Can Improve Scientific Research: The Case of Peer Review
Visible progress has been made in publishing - researchers are no longer bound by the limits of geography or the contents of their local library - but is the potential being truly maximised?
The Two-Way Street of Open Access Journal Publishing: Flip It and Reverse It
The Two-Way Street of Open Access Journal Publishing: Flip It and Reverse It
As Open access is often perceived as the end goal of scholarly publishing, much research has focused on flipping subscription journals to an OA model. Focusing on what can happen after the presumed finish line, this study identifies journals that have converted from OA to a subscription model, and places these “reverse flips” within the greater context of scholarly publishing.
Alessandro Strumia Letter: Keep Gender Bias out of Science
The views of Alessandro Strumia, as expressed in your story "My big bang theory is: women don't like physics" (News Review, last week), are based on a biased interpretation of the data and are at...
Scientific Autonomy, Public Accountability, and the Rise of “Peer Review” in the Cold War United States
Scientific Autonomy, Public Accountability, and the Rise of “Peer Review” in the Cold War United States
This essay traces the history of refereeing at specialist scientific journals and at funding bodies and shows that it was only in the late twentieth century that peer review came to be seen as a process central to scientific practice
Scientists for EU | Why The President of the Royal Society Signed the Revoke Article 50 Petition
Scientists for EU | Why The President of the Royal Society Signed the Revoke Article 50 Petition
Introducing the PID Graph
Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are not only important to uniquely identify a publication, dataset, or person, but the metadata for these persistent identifiers can provide unambiguous linking between persistent identifiers of the same type, e.g. journal articles citing other journal articles, or of different types, e.g. linking a researcher and the datasets they produced.
Paywalls Block Scientific Progress. Research Should Be Open to Everyone
To democratise scholarly publishing, individual academics need to take action.
World Conference of Science Journalists 2019
The World Conference of Science Journalists 2019 will be taking place in Lausanne (Switzerland) from 1-5 July 2019.
Kudos and DataCite Partnership Substantially Advances Communications, Tracking and Impact Potential for Research Projects and Programs
Kudos and DataCite Partnership Substantially Advances Communications, Tracking and Impact Potential for Research Projects and Programs
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has today announced a partnership with DataCite.
Scholarly Communication in Sociology
An introduction to scholarly communication for sociology, intended to help sociologists in their careers, while advancing an inclusive, open, equitable, and sustainable scholarly knowledge ecosystem.
Standing Up To Be A Force Of Change: Q&A with Joe Lucia of Temple University - SPARC
Serbia Joins CERN As Its 23rd Member State
Today, CERN welcomes Serbia as its 23rd Member State, following receipt of formal notification from UNESCO that Serbia has acceded to the CERN Convention.
Distributed Organisations for Collaborative Research
This essay proposes how distributed Web technologies are poised to enable an entirely new way of communication and cooperation among scientist and citizens.
Open Letter from History Journal Editors in Response to Consultation on Plan S
Open Letter from History Journal Editors in Response to Consultation on Plan S
Concerns about some key aspects of Plan S and about their workability in practice, particularly within the landscape of the Humanities, are presented, along with a call for closer consideration of the differential impacts and possible unintended consequences of the ambitious plans laid out in the Guidance document.
OSI Brief: Deceptive Publishing
Deceptive publishing (aka predatory publishing) has been a growing problem for years now. What do we know about it? How should we respond?
#DontLeaveItToGoogle: How Open Infrastructures Enable Continuous Innovation in the Research Workflow
#DontLeaveItToGoogle: How Open Infrastructures Enable Continuous Innovation in the Research Workflow
Closed and proprietary infrastructures limit the accessibility of research, often putting paywalls in front of scientific knowledge. But they also severely limit reuse, preventing other tools from building on top of their software, data, and content. The presentation demonstrates how open infrastructures can help us move beyond this issue and create an ecosystem that is community-driven and community-owned.
An Interview With the Plan S Implementation Committee's David Sweeney
'My question for those who say it's too tight a time scale,' says Plan S task force co-chair David Sweeney, 'is how long do you want?'
Science Should Be More Helpful to New Parents
We need paid leave so young researchers can start families without abandoning STEM careers.
5 Million Hypothesis Annotations
Hypothesis has reached a remarkable new milestone: five million annotations.
Horizon Europe Will Connect the Public to European Science - Carlos Moedas
The next European science and research funding programme, known as Horizon Europe, is designed to connect people with the achievements financed by their tax money, and to fix problems with innovation funding, according to Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation.
EPFL and ETHZ Introduce a Joint Master's Degree in Cyber Security
The two technical universities have teamed up to offer a new Master’s program that will train cyber security engineers. The program will kick off in the 2019–20 school year.
Sign the Petition: Support the UC's "publish & Read" Proposal to Elsevier
Sign the Petition: Support the UC's "publish & Read" Proposal to Elsevier
An Open Letter to Elsevier and the Editorial Boards of Elsevier Journal
The Time Efficiency Gain in Sharing and Reuse of Research Data
Sharing research data can cause an efficiency revenue for the scientific community. However, this is not a given in all modeled scenarios.
"Subscribe to Open" As a Model for Voting with Our Dollars - IO: In The Open
"Subscribe to Open" As a Model for Voting with Our Dollars - IO: In The Open
How can academic libraries "vote with their dollars"?
Open Access Task Force Releases Draft Recommendations
The MIT community is invited to comment on ways to increase sharing of research, data, software, and more.
Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online
Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online
Due a to a misconfigured server, a researcher found a constant stream of Elsevier users' passwords.
Inspiration, Humility, Hope, and Sadness: Reflections on the Youth Climate Strike
Last Friday, hundreds of thousands of students in the United States and around the world were out in the streets rather than in their classrooms, demanding that our political leaders address the climate crisis with the urgency and focused action that the science so clearly demands.
"A Toxic Culture of Overwork": Inside the Graduate Student Mental Health Crisis
"A Toxic Culture of Overwork": Inside the Graduate Student Mental Health Crisis
The mental health crisis extends into the ways counseling and psychological services are provided and into the intrinsic nature of graduate education.
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