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More than hundred and ten libraries have signed an open letter to Taylor & Francis: the academic research which was previously available to universities as part of the Taylor & Francis "big deal" will now have to be purchased as a separate package.
The website Levers in Heels, which features African women in STEM, in January called on the internet to tweet the names of African women scientists. People shared hundreds.
She was a physicist, too—and there is evidence that she contributed significantly to his groundbreaking science.
The U.S. government does not consider sexual harassment a form of scientific misconduct. Should it?
Roughly six-in-ten black STEM workers say they have experienced any of eight specific forms of racial or ethnic discrimination at work.
What two Times journalists learned from trying to quote more female experts.
Striking success has been had in catalyzing retractions by publicly calling out perplexing data and spotting anomalies in the literature.
Last summer we launched our interactive figures initiative with plotly. Since then, we have published 22 interactives figures in seven articles across two platforms. In this post authors describe their figures and share why they wanted to make them interactive.
Statistical significance and hypothesis testing are not really helpful when it comes to testing our hypotheses.
Institutions have made little progress against the misuse of research metrics when hiring and promoting academics.
HHMI meeting examines ways to improve manuscript vetting: little consensus on whether reviewers should have to publicly sign their critiques, which traditionally are accessible only to editors and authors.
The case for decentralized, trusted platforms for the dissemination of scientific information and attribution.
New LERU report makes recommendations on the many ways in which gender bias can be avoided.
The unsustainable nature of the digital data landscape, the quality and credibility of the data themselves, and how data sources currently represent only privileged individuals, are challenges that can be overcome, but to do so requires significant investment in key data governance priorities.
Right now, for the second time since 1931, there is no minister directly responsible for science in Australia.
This declaration was drafted by a group comprising of researchers and professionals working for opening up access to research outputs for public good in India.
Schools that helped produce some of Silicon Valley's most prominent leaders are hustling to bring a more medicine-like morality to computer science.
Climate skeptics, conspiracy theorists, and the anti-immunization movement are on the rise. At the same time, fraudulent research and issues with the replicability of scientific results prompt the question if science is still a reliable source for political decision-making.
The dataset provided by the SNSF contains publication fees for 302 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 514'522 EUR and the average fee is 1'704 EUR.
At least 28% of the scholarly literature is OA and that this proportion is growing, driven particularly by growth in Gold and Hybrid. Also, OA articles receive 18% more citations than average, an effect driven primarily by Green and Hybrid OA.
The Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics standardizes the generation and distribution of usage metrics for research data, enabling for the first time the consistent and credible reporting of research data usage.
This research article describes a procedure to generate a snapshot of the structure of a specific scientific community and their outputs based on the information available in Google Scholar Citations (GSC)....
On 1 February 2018, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) announced the discontinuation of PubMed Commons, citing usage that had been “minimal, with comments submitted on only 6,000 of the 28 million articles indexed in PubMed.” Although sparse,
For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model may become unsustainable.
