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Science Europe and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have launched an initiative for the voluntary international alignment of research data management policies.
Open Science Training Handbook now open for comments and suggestions until 4th of March 2018.
There is a significant discrepancy between the reality of academic publishing and the optimism of politicians and science functionaries who praise Open Access as a panacea for all the ills afflicting science culture.
Although the #MeToo movement does not give a complete picture of how the problem manifests in working life and other environments, this author believes that it can have a preventive effect in some cases.
A new article shows that women more often apply gender perspectives in their research. A diverse research group leads to better and more accurate knowledge about the world, according to Mathias Wullum Nielsen.
What happens when you cite someone’s research? Have you ever wondered what happens with citation data that you produce and how it is being used by others? Citation data is not released automatically - by default the references are hidden from the public eye and can only be obtained from Crossref with specific consent from the publisher.
The website Levers in Heels, which features African women in STEM, in January called on the internet to tweet the names of African women scientists. People shared hundreds.
More than hundred and ten libraries have signed an open letter to Taylor & Francis: the academic research which was previously available to universities as part of the Taylor & Francis "big deal" will now have to be purchased as a separate package.
Roughly six-in-ten black STEM workers say they have experienced any of eight specific forms of racial or ethnic discrimination at work.
The U.S. government does not consider sexual harassment a form of scientific misconduct. Should it?
The dataset provided by the SNSF contains publication fees for 302 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 514'522 EUR and the average fee is 1'704 EUR.
Climate skeptics, conspiracy theorists, and the anti-immunization movement are on the rise. At the same time, fraudulent research and issues with the replicability of scientific results prompt the question if science is still a reliable source for political decision-making.
This declaration was drafted by a group comprising of researchers and professionals working for opening up access to research outputs for public good in India.
The case for decentralized, trusted platforms for the dissemination of scientific information and attribution.
The percentage of funding for basic science R&D in the central government's total financial input in science and technology has reached the level of developed countries, according to an official overseeing resource allocation and management at the ministry.
Spending on research projects on blockchain technologies by the European Union is to jump after it announced plans to increase funding from €83 million to as much as €340 million by 2020.
To enable peer feedback, collaboration and transparency in scientific research practices, Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science (COS) are announcing a new partnership to bring open annotation to Open Science Framework (OSF) Preprints and the 17 community preprint servers hosted on OSF.
Ensure the benefits are felt by all involved, maintain a degree of distance and objectivity, protect the quality of consent and your publishing rights, and always choose your partners carefully.
The Center for Open Science (COS) has launched two new preprint services to provide free, open access, open source archives for the Arab and French research communities.
As preprints in medicine are debated, data on how preprints are used, cited, and published are needed. This study by John P.A. Ioannidis evaluates views and downloads and Altmetric scores and citations of preprints and their publications.
Science and engineering fields saw a 6 percent decrease in international graduate students from the fall of 2016 to the fall of 2017, and almost all of that decrease was concentrated in two fields: computer science and engineering. This follows steady increases from 2005 to 2015 and comes at a time when demand for tech workers outstrips supply.
Han Chunyu retracted disputed ‘breakthrough’ research but still enjoys support from university and local government.
The OECD's 2017 Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard brings fresh evidence on where women stand in the pursuit of better representation in the world of science and technology.
Oxford University Press has today joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC).
UCL Press is launching a new open access megajournal that will provide academics and students with ground-breaking research free of charge in a move that challenges traditional commercial publishing models.
In his fantastic Peters Memorial Lecture on occasion of receiving CNI’s Paul Evan Peters award, Herbert Van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory described my calls to drop subscription.
