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Instead of making scientists compete for grants based on project proposals, research funding could simply be divided equally among all ‘qualified’ researchers, according to a new paper.
Hypothesis and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are today announcing the selection of the Hypothesis open source annotation framework for the bioRxiv preprint service as their primary annotation mechanism.
With science needing to always be reviewed to be sure it is correct, using Post-publication peer review is useful for scientific accuracy.
Peer review infrastructure will arrive at Crossref in one month.
Then a lecherous professor made her life hell...
Study finds faulty research creates a significant drop in use of prior published work.
Most PhD students in the biological sciences will not go on to become academics.
Elsevier develops and implements comprehensive new journal data guidelines.
When scientists step outside their safe laboratories, anything can happen. Of course, studying wild animals or digging out million-year-old fossils sounds exotic and exciting, but that's only one side of the spectrum.
The time for crowdsourcing science has arrived. From idea generation to job hunting, crowdsourcing science can have an impact in your research.
A template for responding the invitations for editorial and reviewer tasks for journals that you wish to boycott.
Ultimately, a key question is emerging for higher education institutions: to what extent, and under what conditions, does it make sense to outsource core scholarly infrastructure?
How cryptocurrencies may generate capital for scientific funding via dividend reinvestment.
This week, six communities launched preprint services to accelerate dissemination of research.
A few examples that demonstrate how universities design their open science guides.
At a research facility in France 35 countries are working on a project that could transform energy.
Dissemin detects papers behind pay-walls and invites their authors to upload them in one click to an open repository.
Our vision for the British Library is that research data are as integrated into our collections, research and services as text is today. The
Bibliometrics for the 20 highest performing authors in Multidisciplinary Science.
Virtual sharing and equipment loans are making access to vital research tools easier.
New study casts doubts on whether more information about science can really change someone's mind.
The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles.
For the record, I do peer reviews! For free!
Reviewing is an implicit part of vaguely-defined jobs.
A lack of recognition for the value of failure holds back creative risk-taking in science.
Mapping research funding in Switzerland
