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We Don't Trust Course Evaluations, but Are Peer Observations of Teaching Much Better?
We Don't Trust Course Evaluations, but Are Peer Observations of Teaching Much Better?
Why colleges and universities that claim to take teaching seriously need a comprehensive and fair system of evaluating it.
Racial and Gender Biases Plague Postdoc Hiring
Changing the name on a CV affects how physics and biology faculty members view theoretical applicants, according to a new study.
Peer Review is Not Just Quality Control, It is Part of the Social Infrastructure of Research
Peer Review is Not Just Quality Control, It is Part of the Social Infrastructure of Research
The purpose of peer review is often portrayed as being a simple ‘objective’ test of the soundness or quality of a research paper. However, it also performs other functions primarily through linking and developing relationships between networks of researchers.
ELife Announces New Funding to Support Diversity in Science
The Ben Barres Spotlight Awards will give scientists in underrepresented communities an opportunity to gain visibility for their work and increase collaboration.
The War to Free Science
How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world's academic research from paywalls.
Swiss Women Strike to Demand Equal Pay
Hundreds of thousands protest against ‘culture of sexism in everday life’.
When English is Not Your Mother Tongue
Seven researchers discuss the challenges posed by science's embrace of one global language.
Plan S: the Final Cut
The Lancet welcomes the latest Plan S guidance, but differs in one aspect.
'Broken Access' Publishing Corrodes Quality
Funders should award competitive grants directly to journals to underwrite the costs of open access, urges Adriano Aguzzi.
Indicators of Open Access for Universities
This paper presents a first attempt to analyse Open Access integration at the institutional level. For this, we combine information from Unpaywall and the Leiden Ranking to offer basic OA indicators for universities. OA indicators are also disaggregated by green, gold and hybrid Open Access. We then explore differences between and within countries and offer a general ranking of universities based on the proportion of their output which is openly accessible.
Researchers Reject APC-based OA Publishing As Promoted by Plan S
Lynn Kamerlin, Bas de Bruin and their colleagues have been the most vocal critics of Plan S from the very beginning, braving continuous opposition from certain OA leaders. Now that final Plan S guidelines were released, the chemists publish this Open Letter expressing their worry about a possible dystopian OA future.
Hyped-up Science Erodes Trust. Here's How Researchers Can Fight Back.
Science is often poorly communicated. Researchers can fight back.
Taiwan Considers Double-blind Peer Review for Grants
If the system is adopted, reviewers and applicants will be anonymous, in an attempt to make selection fairer.
New Tool and Dataset Make Permissions Checking Easier, Faster, and Clearer for Libraries.
New Tool and Dataset Make Permissions Checking Easier, Faster, and Clearer for Libraries.
Together with librarians, we’re building a new way to perform permissions checking that is backed by a modern approach and informed by a decade of experience and open, community-editable, machine-readable data.
The Politics of Open Access in Action
Open access is a movement constituted by conflict and disagreement rather than consensus and harmony. Given just how much disagreement there is about strategies, definitions, goals, etc., it is incredible that open access has successfully transformed the publishing landscape.
The Science for Public Good Fund
If you are an early career scientist looking for ways to get involved with advocacy, or a faculty member who wants to engage your students in the role of science in democracy, the Science for Public Good Fund is for you. We want to support the next generation of science advocacy leaders today.
Building Shareyourpaper.org to Make Self-archiving the Simplest Way to Increase a Paper's Impact.
Building Shareyourpaper.org to Make Self-archiving the Simplest Way to Increase a Paper's Impact.
Introducing shareyourpaper.org, the simplest way for authors to legally self-archive and for your library to fill your repository.
Globalisation, Localisation and Glocalisation of University-Business Research Cooperation: General Patterns and Trends in the UK University System
Globalisation, Localisation and Glocalisation of University-Business Research Cooperation: General Patterns and Trends in the UK University System
Exploratory study presenting a new systematic way of looking at ‘university-business interactions’ in the UK university system.
Metadata2020 Survey
The purpose of this study is to understand the familiarity and usage of metadata by those who use metadata in the process of preparing, publishing, cataloging, or sharing research papers, media and other associated objects in scholarly communications.
Three Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating the Impact of "spin" in Health News Stories Reporting Studies of Pharmacologic Treatments on Patients'/Caregivers' Interpretation of Treatment Benefit
Three Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating the Impact of "spin" in Health News Stories Reporting Studies of Pharmacologic Treatments on Patients'/Caregivers' Interpretation of Treatment Benefit
Spin in health news stories reporting studies of pharmacologic treatments affects patients’/caregivers’ interpretation.
How Gold Open Access May Make Things Worse
The article processing charge (APC)-based version of ‘gold’ OA could be a looming threat that may deteriorate the situation even beyond the abysmal state scholarly publishing is already in right now.
Gender 'Holds Women Academics Back'
Men reach more senior levels than women, even after parenthood is accounted for, research suggests.
PRESS RELEASE: Researchers Respond to Revised Guidance for Plan S
The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc), the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), and the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) jointly welcome the revised implementation guidance for Plan S.
Book Release: Science Policy Under Thatcher
Book Release: Science Policy Under Thatcher
Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's leadership.
Pfizer Had Clues Its Blockbuster Drug Could Prevent Alzheimer’s. Why Didn’t It Tell the World?
Pfizer Had Clues Its Blockbuster Drug Could Prevent Alzheimer’s. Why Didn’t It Tell the World?
A team of researchers inside Pfizer made a startling find in 2015: The company’s blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis therapy Enbrel, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 64 percent.
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