Swiss Researchers Struggle to Get Animal Experiments Approved
Scientists say that increasingly rigorous licensing procedures have complicated research efforts - and in some cases, stopped experiments completely.
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Digital Humanities + Libraries: Revolution or Evolution?
The US focus of digital humanities in libraries seems to be shifting toward skills, tools and methods and away from collections and projects.
How Not to Scare off Women: Different Needs of Female Early-stage Researchers in STEM and SSH Fields
How Not to Scare off Women: Different Needs of Female Early-stage Researchers in STEM and SSH Fields
Women researchers are underrepresented in almost all research fields. There are disciplinary differences in the phase in which they tend to quit their academic career: in the natural and technical sciences (STEM), it is in the postdoctoral phase, whereas in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) it is during the doctoral phase.
As PNAS Calls Time on Print, Will More Journals Follow Suit?
End of prestigious print publication after 103 years stirs debate over future of journal publishing in the digital age.
Four Lessons About Transitioning from Academia to the 'Real World'
The move from Academia to the 'real world' requires a few crucial mindset shifts.
What It's Like to Be a Woman in the Academy
We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.
DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos
The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.
Peer Review: First Results from a Trial at ELife
New approach to peer review proves popular with authors, with very similar acceptance rates for male and female last authors, but with higher acceptance rates for late-career researchers compared to their early- and mid-career colleagues.
Large Scale Publisher Survey Reveals Global Trends in Open Access Publishing
A survey of publishers with journals indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published.
Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds
An analysis concluded that earth's oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.
The Double-bind Theory of Scholarly Publishing
Open Acess and Plan S in particular create a conflict between editorial quality and the cost of publication.
Life in the Lab
So, there I was, pipette in hand, doing actual labwork for the first time in a year. How had it come to this? When I started out, I was convinced I was not going to be one of those PIs who is never in the lab.
White House Finally Gets a Science Adviser
Research community welcomes meteorologist as Trump's new science adviser, after two years without one, but the office he will run is currently closed.
Bold Plan to Take European Open Access Initiative Global in 2019
Robert-Jan Smits is pitching the Plan S vision to transform academic publishing to the world’s big science funding bodies.
What Scientists Searched for in 2018
The most-searched keywords in the Scopus database and on Google, revealed.
How to Shine in Indonesian Science? Game the System
Indonesia researchers have inflated their Indonesia’s Science and Technology Index (SINTA) score by publishing large numbers of papers in low-quality journals, citing their own work excessively, or forming networks of scientists who cited each other.
AI-enhanced Peer Review: Frontiers Launches Next Generation of Efficient, High-quality Peer Review
AI-enhanced Peer Review: Frontiers Launches Next Generation of Efficient, High-quality Peer Review
The integration of AIRA - Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant - into Frontiers' digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling.
Reproducibility of Research is Critical for Open Science and Open Britain
Reproducibility of Research is Critical for Open Science and Open Britain
Science that is robust and reproducible will stimulate economic growth and social benefits, argue Marcus Munafò and Neil Jacobs
Will the World Embrace Plan S, the Radical Proposal to Mandate Open Access to Science Papers?
Will the World Embrace Plan S, the Radical Proposal to Mandate Open Access to Science Papers?
China appears to embrace Europe-led plan, but other countries are reluctant.
Scientists Despair As US Government Shutdown Drags on
Space missions can continue to collect data, but thousands of federal researchers are forced to stay home without pay.
The Quest to Topple Science-Stymying Academic Paywalls
Scientific publishers charge so much that even Harvard can't afford it anymore. A new publishing infrastructure could help.
Models Highlight Inherent Inefficiencies of Scientific Funding Competitions
Scientists waste substantial time writing grant proposals, potentially squandering much of the scientific value of funding programs. This Meta-Research Article shows that, unfortunately, grant-proposal competitions are inevitably inefficient when the number of awards is small, but efficiency can be restored by awarding funds through a modified lottery, or by weighting past research success more heavily in funding decisions.
The Costs of Reproducibility
The potential costs for early-career researchers in adopting practices to improve reproducibility as well as ways in which they can nontheless achieve their career goals.
Journal Shares Peer Reviews of Rejected Papers with Rival Titles
BMC Biology's 'portable peer review' policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections.
How Can Postdoctoral Researchers Engage with Policy? - Networks of Evidence and Expertise for Public Policy
How Can Postdoctoral Researchers Engage with Policy? - Networks of Evidence and Expertise for Public Policy
Workshop concludes that early-career researchers can make important contributions to policy decisions and experimenting with various forms of communication (i.e. opinion pieces, youtube channels, and tweeting at MPs) had the potential to improve knowledge transfer.
Welcome to The Great Acceleration
The author argues that the two biggest forces driving change in the scholarly communication landscape are consolidation and regulation. By consolidation, he means that there’s a now constant cycle of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the number of independent players in the market. By regulation, we’re talking about the increasing number of rules and the compliance burden being put on researchers.
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