Becoming Professor. With Almost no Publications
I think I am the only living person in Sweden who achieved a professor chair with only one international journal publication.
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Birkbeck to Investigate the Peer Review Process
Thanks to a $99,000 research grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Repeating Important Research Thanks to Replication Studies
For the first time, NWO is funding nine projects from the health and social sciences that replicate research from others.
Science Has a Negativity Problem
Exciting new discoveries get all the attention — leaving just-as-important negative results in the dust. And fixing the problem is easier said than done.
New ORFG Resource Provides Guidance to Funders Developing Open Policies
A guide intended to help research funders develop open policies that advance their organizational values.
Open Science and its Discontents
The current funding climate certainly doesn’t favour changes, but that doesn’t mean that change isn’t possible.
Sparrho Raises $3 Million to Democratize Access to Science Research
Sparrho is developing a free platform to find and share research publications and patents.
MIT Convenes Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to Institute's Research
Group will explore opportunities to disseminate MIT knowledge as widely as possible.
Locking Science Open with Decentralized Scientific Archives
In a decentralized architecture, anyone has the ability to download and re-host data without changing it's permanent identifier.
More Popular in Principle Than in Practice
Younger researchers may be particularly deterred by the fees associated with gold open access.
Open Academic Search
A working group aiming to advance scientific research and discovery, promote technology that assists the scientific and academic communities, and make research available worldwide for the good of all humanity.
Poland's Science Boom
Heavy investment and low cost of living is powering a meteoric rise.
AMRC Research Impact Report 2017
How can medical research charities show the difference they make?
Berlin Universities Cancel Contract with International Publisher Elsevier
Berlin Universities demand fair prices and free access to information.
Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review
The history and present diversity of peer review practices.
Cambridge Researchers Fight Back Against ‘Bad Science’
A group of junior researchers at Cambridge have established a campaign against the damaging pressure to produce 'sexier' results
Some Facts on Sci-Hub That Wikipedia Gets Wrong
Sci-Hub is not a search engine and it stores papers in its own repository.
Science Should be Open to all Not Behind Paywalls
Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of the site Sci-Hub.
Bad Publishing and Bullied into Bad Science
The recent long read about scientific publishing in the Guardian is fantastic. It depicts a very telling story of the research publishing landscape.
International Conference on Research for Development
5–8 September 2017, Bern, Switzerland
Less than 5 Years to Build the European Open Science Cloud
There are decades of lessons learnt and resources to build upon … where does the EOSCpilot project fit in?
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