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Scientists Brace for a Lost Generation in American Research
Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.
What Happens to Libraries and Librarians When Machines Can Read All the Books?
What Happens to Libraries and Librarians When Machines Can Read All the Books?
Revised text of a talk given by the Director of Libraries at MIT.
Academics Can Change the World – If They Stop Talking Only to Their Peers
Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What's holding them back?
Economics Professor Turns to Crowdfunding to Pay Salary
Steve Keen laments loss of ‘time and freedom’ for universities’ ‘original thinkers’
Google Scholar Is a Serious Alternative to Web of Science
Many bibliometricians and university administrators remain wary of Google Scholar citation data, preferring “the gold standard” of Web of Science instead.
Trump’s Budget Is Everything Scientists Have Been Fearing
The outline cuts at least $7 billion for research on climate change, diseases, and energy.
The Science 'Reproducibility Crisis' – and What Can Be Done About It
The Science 'Reproducibility Crisis' – and What Can Be Done About It
We asked three experts for their takes.
How Can We Tackle the Thorny Problem of Fraudulent Research?
Misconduct in academia isn’t rampant but should be taken more seriously: let’s consider independent anti-corruption units
Transparency Upgrade for Nature Journals
The Nature journals continue journey towards greater rigour.
Why I Don’t Sign (Most Of) My Reviews
Why I Don’t Sign (Most Of) My Reviews
A few months ago, Stephen Heard wrote a blog post that prompted us to have a brief twitter discussion on whether we sign our reviews.
Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
Who Will Run the New European Open Science Cloud?
The Commission wants to knit existing data infrastructures into a shared pan European resource.
Career Success Stories of the European Research Council
As the European Research Council celebrates its 10-year anniversary, three Starting Grant awardees describe their career paths.
Linked Data Notifications
A resource-centric communication protocol for for decentralised article publishing, annotations and peer to peer interactions.
Google’s DeepMind Makes AI Program That Can Learn Like A Human
Program brings artificial general intelligence a step closer by using previous knowledge to solve fresh problems
Most of the Time, Innovators Don't Move Fast and Break Things
If we abandon the cult of the Great White Innovator, we will understand the history of technology in a much deeper way.
European Open Science Cloud Pilot Project @eoscpilot
The EOSCpilot project will support the first phase in the development of the European Open Science Cloud.
The Connected Culture of Collaboration #OverleafReport
New report looks at real-time global research collaboration for the first time, uncovering a new picture of collaborative research.
The Selfish Scientist’s Guide to Preprint Posting
Preprint posting is the right thing to do for science and society. It enables us to share our results earlier, speeding up the pace of science.
Predatory Journals: Exposing the Flaws in Academic Research
The constant demand for predatory journals has now exposed significant flaws in the academic research establishment that questions the integrity of the research system.