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A little over 1 year ago, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) launched mSphere as an open-access, online, pan-microbial sciences journal. We established two major goals: publish cutting-edge science and implement policies and processes to make the publication experience less onerous for authors.
Research performance of all Italian professors in the sciences over three consecutive four-year periods.
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.
A platform for displaying text-mined annotations as a means to link research articles with biological data
Sociologist Matthijs Rooduijn explains why the darkening political mood must force academics to step up and choose sides.
The real innovation of CiteScore is not another performance metric, but a new marketing model focused on editors.
The open-access microbiology journal mSphere will give authors a "super-fast track" option toward publication. The idea has some ardent fans, but is also drawing doubts.
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Finland aiming to have open access to all scientific publications by 2020.
A preliminary analysis of the new Elsevier's CiteScore journal metric.
A look at the literature reveals shortcomings in the way OA and subscription models are being compared and suggests how future studies could build on existing research to provide a more accurate picture
The University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute are vying for lucrative rights to the gene-editing system.
Dwindling gains in science, medicine and technology hold back growth; is America too risk-averse?
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said Friday that it would be a "privilege" to remain in that post if asked to stay by President-elect Donald Trump.
How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of science knowingly let flawed research slip through.
Writers from the Guardian’s science blog network pick out the books from across the cultural spectrum that delighted them most this year
If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.
Technology and practice can help shy and introverted researchers to succeed when reticence is risky.
A free and open tool for collaborative editing, instant publishing, continuous review, and grassroots journals. PubPub is supported and advised by many MIT Media Lab professors, students, and friends.
OpenCon Berlin was one of numorous satellite events that took place after the main OpenCon 2016 conference that happened earlier this November in Washington, DC. It was organzied by OpenAIRE, ScienceOpen and Digital Science in cooperation with the Computer and Media Service of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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