The End of an Error?
What would the world be like without formal peer review?, asks Fields medallists Timothy Gowers.
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How Does Blogging Work as a Teaching Concept?
The opportunities and experiences of blogging as part of teaching.
Building a Culture of Data Sharing: Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research
Building a Culture of Data Sharing: Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research
Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within seven development research projects.
Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research
Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research
Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.
Trashing Science in Government Grants Isn’t Normal
The Case of the EPA, John Konkus, and Climate Change.
Radical Open Access Website Officially Launched
A community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the humanities and social sciences.
Authorship Revised: Alternatives to Traditional Authorship
The author line provides no adequate information on the qualitative contribution of the single persons listed.
A Radically Open Approach to Developing Infrastructure for Open Science
A Radically Open Approach to Developing Infrastructure for Open Science
Hindawi’s CEO, Paul Peters, explains the problems inherent in proprietary solutions for Open Science infrastructure and presents a proposal for how things can be done differently.
Research Results Are Increasingly Available For Free
A movement to make the fruits of research available without charge has helped students and faculty members gain access to an increasing number of academic articles.
How A Data Visualization Of Sperm Led To A Scientific Breakthrough
Two scientists set out to animate how sperm moves. They ended up making a major discovery.
Patronage as a Research Crowdfunding Model
Patreon works differently to most other crowdfunding services. On Patreon, you donate a small amount regularly.
Open Science MOOC
100+ volunteers sharing their knowledge about Open Science and contributing to what they see as an extremely important issue in nowadays and future science.
Is The Academic Publishing Industry Ripe For Disruption?
Taxpayers sometimes have to pay three times for any scientific article.
Foundations for Open Science Strategy Development
An open document that tries to provide a concise analysis of where the global Open Science movement currently stands.
Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia
Increased provision of information in accessible repositories appears to be a cost-effective way to advance science. Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial.
Philanthropists Are Getting Behind a New Push for Government Science Funding
Philanthropy’s no replacement for crucial government science funding, but that message can get lost amid the high-profile gifts. Some science funders are now backing a push to protect federal funding.
Scientists in the Lurch After Imprecise MHRD Notice About 'Paid Journals'
A "completely confusing statement" in a gazette notification has scientists wondering which of their papers will and won't be considered towards their promotions in the future.
A Very Quick Intro to Blockchain and Open Scholarship
Everybody talks about Blockchain these days, but why should we consider this technology when thinking about Open Scholarship?
Access, Ethics and Piracy
An article considering both the efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge.
DEAL and Springer Nature: First Results of the Negotiation
Cost-neutral extension of the existing Springer contracts by one year.
A Defining Overview on OA & Academic Books
This first-of-a-kind report from Knowledge Exchange maps the landscape for Open Access books in the Knowledge Exchange countries; Finland, Netherlands, UK, France, Denmark and Germany, together with Norway and Austria.
Sharing Grant Proposals Openly
Opening up science so that all stages of the process can benefit from better interaction and communication and to provide examples for early career scientists writing grants.
(Re)usable Data Project
Looking at some of the issues around the reuse of scientific data and open a conversation about how to deal with them.
Are the Papers Behind This Year's Nobel Prizes in the Public Domain?
Many of the important papers penned by the chemistry laureates are not freely accessible.
Women in the Workplace 2017
Get the latest stats on women in leadership and learn how companies can create more inclusive workplaces in the 2017 Women in the Workplace study.
Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity
A call on research organizations and their libraries to secure and earmark a share of their acquisition budgets to support the development of scientific publishing activities.
G7 Science Ministers Endorse Open Science
Recommendations by G7 to rewarding and incentivize Open Science practices and infrastructures for optimal use of research data.
ResearchGate and Springer Nature Plan Cooperation
ResearchGate and Springer Nature have been in serious discussions for some time about finding solutions to sharing scientific journal articles online, while at the same time protecting intellectual property rights.
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