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How to Start or Flip an Open Access Journal
Are you in the process of starting an open access journal, or are you planning to transition an existing journal to an OA publishing model? In this post we break out all the steps to get an OA publication up and running.
Do You Need a Science Degree to Be a Science Reporter?
Journalists covering crime or education are not typically expected to have a degree in those subjects. But science journalism is often considered a more technical and knowledge-heavy beat. This article examines advantages and drawbacks of becoming a science reporter from a variety of backgrounds.
Referees Should Exercise Their Rights
Peer reviewers have the right to view the data and code that underlie a work if it would help in the evaluation, even if these have not been provided with the submission. Yet few referees exercise this right.
Mozilla Announces 26 New Fellows in Openness, Science, and Tech Policy
25 technologists, activists, and scientists will spend the next 10 to 12 months creating a more secure, inclusive, and decentralized internet.
20 Ways Blockchain May Improve Education
26 ways that digital ledger technology could be deployed by school districts, networks, postsecondary institutions and community-based organizations to improve learning opportunities.
Russian Bots Were Used to Sow Divisions on Vaccines
The campaign may have increased misperceptions that the science on the safety of vaccines isn’t settled - as is the case - but rather subject to debate.
Scaling Up Paywalled Academic Article Sharing by Legal Means
Announcing R4R to connect authors to peers
Dimensions: Building Context for Search and Evaluation
Dimensions by Digital Science (owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing) is a new database that includes not only data about publications and their natural associated citation graph, but also awarded grant data, patent data and clinical data and altmetric attention data.
The A to Z of Paper Authorship
To keep authorship fair, journals in all fields should list authors based on their contribution rather than in alphabetical order.
Patients With Rare Diseases Ought to Get Free Access to Taxpayer-Funded Medical Research, Critics Argue
Patients With Rare Diseases Ought to Get Free Access to Taxpayer-Funded Medical Research, Critics Argue
There’s a real problem behind this Twitter spat.
What's Stopping Young African Scientists from Achieving Their Potential
The Global State of Young Scientists Africa project investigates the challenges that shape the career trajectories of young African scientists.
Open Science Is Now the Only Way Forward for Psychology
A look at the journey psychology has made toward becoming a robust and mature science.
A 171-Year-Old Suggestion to Promote Open Science
Just like judges and politicians, researchers may overstate their confidence in a claim. To truly assess their confidence, something needs to be on the line.
Prioritize the Needs of the Audience When Giving a Presentation
Speakers inadvertently prepare presentations for themselves rather than their audiences. A few mental exercises can help presenters to avoid this pitfall.
A Toolkit for Data Transparency Takes Shape
A simple software toolset can help to ease the pain of reproducing computational analyses.
No More Excuses for Non-Reproducible Methods
Online technologies make it easy to share precise experimental protocols - and doing so is essential to modern science, says Lenny Teytelman.
Crowdfunding Science Festival 2018
Celebrating Science Booster - Switzerland's only platform for science crowdfunding.
Collaboration + Technology + Open Science : Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative
Collaboration + Technology + Open Science : Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative
Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative's approach to accelerating science and curing disease.
The Challenges of Creating World-Class Universities in China
The obsession with internationalization had resulted in priority being given to overseas scholars and graduates and has diminished graduates of many top domestic universities to second or third-class status.
Springer Nature Collaborates with IBM Watson Health to Create Deeper Insights from Cutting Edge Scientific and Medical Research
Springer Nature Collaborates with IBM Watson Health to Create Deeper Insights from Cutting Edge Scientific and Medical Research
Springer Nature announced a collaboration with Watson Health to expand and enhance the integration of valuable genomics.
WikiCiteVis - Exploring Citations on Wikipedia
Find out how scholarly articles are cited on Wikipedia with WikiCiteVis.
Who Needs Democracy When You Have Data?
Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
Mum is a Neanderthal, Dad is a Denisovan - First Discovery of an Ancient-human Hybrid
Mum is a Neanderthal, Dad is a Denisovan - First Discovery of an Ancient-human Hybrid
Genetic analysis uncovers a direct descendant of two different groups of early humans.
How Many Wikipedia References Are Available to Read? We Measured the Proportion of Open Access Sources Across Languages and Topics
How Many Wikipedia References Are Available to Read? We Measured the Proportion of Open Access Sources Across Languages and Topics
When following a link to the official version of a scholarly article, Wikipedia readers are twice as likely to hit a paywall than one they can freely read.
Where Do the Numbers Published in Scientific Articles Come From?
Study attempts to reproduce values reported in 35 articles published in the journal Cognition revealed analysis pipelines peppered with errors. Elements of a reproducible workflow that may help to mitigate these problems in future research are outlined.
Reproducibility and Replication - University of Zurich Center for Reproducible Science Kickoff Workshop
Reproducibility and Replication - University of Zurich Center for Reproducible Science Kickoff Workshop
A strategic kick-off workshop on Reproducibility and Replication with the goal to define the optimal set-up of the activities of the newly opened Center for Reproducible Science (CRS) at the University of Zurich.