Transparency, Credit, and Peer Review
Support for publication of reviewer reports has been mounting as part of a greater effort to inform the discussion on peer review practice.
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The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
This really gives a new meaning to the "paper of record."
Fitbit's 150 Billion Hours of Heart Data Reveal Secrets About Health
Fitbit's 150 Billion Hours of Heart Data Reveal Secrets About Health
Fitibit's wristbands have collected 150 billion hours' worth of heart-rate data from people around the world. For the first time, the company offered a look inside that data, to see how lifestyle, location, age, and gender affects our health and longevity.
Finding Open Access Articles - Tools and Tips
A guide to help search more easily for open access articles.
Serbia Adopts National Open Science Policy
The Serbian Government has adopted a national policy mandating open access (OA) to all publications resulting from publicly-funded research in Serbia. The policy, titled the Open Science Platform, was introduced by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MESTD), the main funder for research in Serbia, in July 2018. EIFL welcomes the adoption of the policy, which makes a major contribution to improving visibility and discoverability of Serbian research outputs.
Reproducibility and Replication - University of Zurich Center for Reproducible Science Kickoff Workshop
Reproducibility and Replication - University of Zurich Center for Reproducible Science Kickoff Workshop
A strategic kick-off workshop on Reproducibility and Replication with the goal to define the optimal set-up of the activities of the newly opened Center for Reproducible Science (CRS) at the University of Zurich.
Crowdfunding Science Festival 2018
Celebrating Science Booster - Switzerland's only platform for science crowdfunding.
Do You Need a Science Degree to Be a Science Reporter?
Journalists covering crime or education are not typically expected to have a degree in those subjects. But science journalism is often considered a more technical and knowledge-heavy beat. This article examines advantages and drawbacks of becoming a science reporter from a variety of backgrounds.
Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability
Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability
This publication provides an overview of some practical tools and strategies that researchers can implement in their own workflow to increase replicability and the overall quality of psychology research.
Are Open Data Actually Reusable?
Many efforts are underway to promote data sharing in psychology, however it is currently unclear if the in-principle benefits of data availability are being realized in practice. In a recent study, we found that a mandatory open data policy introduced at the journal Cognition led to a substantial increase in available data, but a considerable portion of this data was not reusable. For data to be reusable, it needs to be clearly structured and well-documented. Open data alone will not be enough to achieve the benefits envisioned by proponents of data sharing.
Where Do the Numbers Published in Scientific Articles Come From?
Study attempts to reproduce values reported in 35 articles published in the journal Cognition revealed analysis pipelines peppered with errors. Elements of a reproducible workflow that may help to mitigate these problems in future research are outlined.
A 171-Year-Old Suggestion to Promote Open Science
Just like judges and politicians, researchers may overstate their confidence in a claim. To truly assess their confidence, something needs to be on the line.
The A to Z of Paper Authorship
To keep authorship fair, journals in all fields should list authors based on their contribution rather than in alphabetical order.
Minding the Gender Gap
Mind the Gap is a role-playing game designed as a structure for dialogues which examine the gender gap.
BlockchainForScience.com
Information about Blockchain for Science, Research and Knoweldge creation. The decentralized future of science. Blockchain bears the potential to make science more effective, make research continous, free data and fix the reproducibility crisis in science.
How Many Wikipedia References Are Available to Read? We Measured the Proportion of Open Access Sources Across Languages and Topics
How Many Wikipedia References Are Available to Read? We Measured the Proportion of Open Access Sources Across Languages and Topics
When following a link to the official version of a scholarly article, Wikipedia readers are twice as likely to hit a paywall than one they can freely read.
Science's Bullying Problem
When scientists reach mid-career, they suddenly have to manage people, something they have never done and never really been trained to do.
Hundreds of Researchers From Top Universities Were Published in Fake Academic Journals
Hundreds of Researchers From Top Universities Were Published in Fake Academic Journals
How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.
Boycott the Journal Rankings
Journal rankings are a rigged game. The blacklist of history of economic thought journals isn’t a fluke nor a conspiracy - it exposes how citation rankings really work.
DARPA Has an Ambitious USD1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics
DARPA Has an Ambitious USD1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics
The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.
The Art of Crafting Conferences
The benefits and challenges of three approaches to scientific meetings.
OpenCon2018 Switzerland
The first OpenCon satellite event in Switzerland will take place on September 21-22 at the SNSF in Bern. Registrations are open until the end of August.
DOAJ Under Attack from an Unknown Third Party
After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.
Preprints Promote Transparency and Communication
The potential of preprints to drive scientific understanding and innovation, and even support good journalism.
The Dark Sides of Open Science
In this controversial opinion piece, German science expert Stefan Hornbostel argues that some transparency is good for science - but too much can backfire, reducing the efficiency and quality of research and eroding public trust.
Affordable Open Access: There's a Way, Now We Need a Will
What will it take to make the majority of scholarship open access so anyone can read it without a paywall?
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