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Earlier this year, the Montreal Neurological Institute announced an ambitious commitment to the principles of open science. The Neuro will be eschewing patents for its discoveries and doing all it can to make its research findings widely available. While there have been other large-scale open science initiatives the Neuro is the first major research institute of its kind to make such a wide-ranging commitment to open science.
Postdocs nationwide were set to have an increased minimum salary or become eligible for overtime pay until a court injunction halted new Department of Labor regulations.
What academic research caught the public imagination in 2016?
A guide to help selfish academics ensure that everyone at a conference knows they are very special indeed.
An analysis focusing on the efficacy or durability of GM Bt crops and ties between the researchers carrying out these studies and the GM crop industry showing that ties between researchers and the GM crop industry were common, with 40% of the articles considered displaying conflicts of interest (COI).
Sick of relying on commercial platforms for academic sharing? Humanities Commons, SocArXiv, and the Center for Open Science to the rescue!
A partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs.
Eight highly-visible organizations today announced the launch of the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership designed to increase access to research outputs. With nearly $5 billion in combined annual grants conferred, these organizations are committed to using their positions to foster more open sharing of research articles and data. This openness, the members believe, will accelerate the pace of discovery, reduce information-sharing gaps, encourage innovation, and promote reproducibility.
Amazon made its first commercial drone delivery on Dec. 7 in Cambridgeshire, England.
Elsevier explains the thought process behind its new journal impact metrics.
Figshare announced a new partnership with Springer Nature to support BioMed Central and SpringerOpen authors who wish to openly share their supplementary data. Figshare are now hosting additional files from more than 300 BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals.
Why does a mole rat live 30 years but a mouse only three? With $1.5 billion in the bank, Google’s anti-aging spinout Calico is rich enough to find out.
In a paper published today, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) looks at interdisciplinarity as a powerful driver of knowledge creation, scientific progress and innovation.
One Trump adviser suggested that NASA no longer should conduct climate research and instead should focus on space exploration.
A list of some of the shady things Elsevier has been previously caught doing
French, German, and UK's joint guidelines for high-quality publications in scientific journals.
The trend of turning universities into businesses is limiting research freedoms in traditionally liberal institutes in northern Europe.
Yesterday, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law.
Using analytics to improve hiring decisions has transformed industries from baseball to investment banking. So why are tenure decisions for professors still made the old-fashioned way?, asks Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT.
Women in academia may be losing out salary-wise because they are more focused on tasks that may go unrewarded, a new study suggests
How the research librarian of the future might work, utilising new data science and digital skills to drive more collaborative and open scholarship.
The measurement of Impact Factor – how many citations a publication or a researcher is able to attract, is one of the most controversial yet most widely used quality indicators in science.
A perspective by Kathy L. Hudson and Francis S. Collins on the 21st Century Cures Act.
All the videos and slides from #scidata16.
The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has been heavily criticized over decades. This opinion piece argues that the JIF should not be demonized. It still can be employed for research evaluation purposes by carefully considering the context and academic environment.
More than 60 major German research institutions are to be expected to have no access to the full texts of journals by the publisher Elsevier from 1 January 2017 on, among them Göttingen University with 440 Elsevier journals.
