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Scientific Cuddles vs. Criticism
A bit more than a month ago, I arrived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to spend my summer working with some of the wonderful data sets being collected at the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan and to enjoy the unique flair of a US college town (why does it smell like weed everywhere?)
Without Even Thinking
Implicit biases are pervasive and unavoidable. But they can be changed.
Clarivate Analytics Announces Landmark Partnership with Impactstory
Novel public/private partnership connects researchers to verified versions of an estimated 18 million new open access articles from Web of Science.
Metrics for Openness
The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research.
Mavericks & Heretics
Ignored, Scorned…Vindicated. The maverick scientists whose heretical ideas were ultimately proven correct.
Make Our Planet Great Again
Emmanuel Macron, President of France invites all responsable citizens to come to France in order to Make Our Planet Great Again and work on climate change.
A Dive Into the World of Academic Publishing
A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research.
Science's Quality-Control System under Attack
Lengthy publication delays, theft of rivals’ research, allegations of shoddy reviewing, and even the faking of reviews are raising new questions about a decades-old scientific tradition
Building the Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research
Building the Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research
Taking stock of the current state of interoperability across the PID landscape and to discuss the next steps towards an integrated research record.
Researchobject.org
Website aiming to map the landscape of initiatives and activity in the development of Research Objects, an emerging approach to the publication, and exchange of scholarly information on the Web.
Avoiding Predators in Publishing
As the number of publishers that choose profit over ethics grows, find out how to avoid their scams and support organizations promoting best practices in scholarly communication.
Is Science Broken, Or Is It Self-Correcting?
How retractions and peer-review problems are exploited to attack science.
Genuine Semantic Publishing
Paper providing a vision transcending the current publishing paradigm.
EU Moves into Publishing
The European Commission is looking to create its own open-access publishing platform for papers that emerge from its €80bn Horizon 2020 programme.
Open Science Fair 2017
Open Science Fair 2017 is having its first opening international conference in Athens, Greece, 6-8 September 2017.
National Research Agenda
Dutch agenda presenting 140 overarching scientific questions as a result of a unique bottom-up initiative, driven by the general public and a vast number of organisations in the Netherlands.
Case Study on Researcher Strategies Against Fear of Scooping in the Context of Open Science
Case Study on Researcher Strategies Against Fear of Scooping in the Context of Open Science
Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.
Chemistry Journal Introduces ‘Intelligent Crowd’ Peer Review
Online platform aims to make peer review faster, unbiased and less of a burden on researchers
What I Learned from Predatory Publishers
This article is a first-hand account of Jeffrey Beall’s work identifying and listing predatory publishers from 2012 to 2017.
Why Unpaywall Will Be a Game-Changer
Recently, a new tool has come out that allows users to ‘jump the paywall’ and access research articles for free. It’s called Unpaywall, and it works by using information contained within papers.
The Crisis Facing Scientific Research
The challenges facing researchers in Japan and some of the structural weaknesses holding science back.
Journal Editors Open Up About Open Science
In May 2017, we sat down with ECS journal editors Robert Savinell and Dennis Hess at the 231st ECS Meeting.
Open-Access Mandates and the Seductively False Promise of “Free”
Open-access mandates have the potential to significantly harm the publishing industry, writes the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property.
Data Science for Doctors
Learn the skills to supercharge your next audit, quality improvement or research project.
On the Changing Infrastructure of Scholarly Communication
Peter Suber and the Open Access Movement
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