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To advance scientific communication and open access publishing. The partnership will also ensure open access to research funded by the Gates Foundation and published in the Science family of journals.
Trump Administration removed all open data (9GB) from the White House.
Satirical academic social media accounts go serious to protest Donald Trump.
£182'100 of fixed costs per year.
In this Viewpoint, Ioannidis discusses the problem of nonreproducibility in biomedical research and proposes implementing reproducibility assessments to improve research practices.
The drone can carry a person and a small suitcase, and flies at up to 100 miles per hour.
Visual representation of selected ORCID integrations as listed on ORCID website.
Practical experience and no student debt make vocational training an enticing career option
We now allow researchers to cite preprints in their grant applications.
The debate about open access has until now focused on the gold (journals) versus the green route (manuscript self‐archival).
Ambra is an innovative Open Source platform for publishing Open Access research articles. It provides features for post-publication discussion and versioned articles that allows for a “living” document around which further scientific discoveries can be made. The platform is in active development by PLOS (Public Library of Science) and is licensed under the MIT License.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is working with an international group of research funders to explore the value and feasibility of establishing a Central Service for preprints. This is a unique opportunity to encourage sharing of preprints in the life sciences and to support the development of a core infrastructure to ensure the benefits of pre-printing are fully realized.
Though no money is committed yet, major science funders back idea of an aggregator of preprints
The Research Council of Norway is awarding funding to six new projects under the new Centre for Digital Life Norway, which will bring the total number of projects associated with the centre to 12.
The online encyclopedia has been fact checking the Internet for more than 15 years. Now it wants to bring its skeptical eye to the masses.
A battle for the future, basic decency, and the people we love.
The establishment of university-affiliated incubators is often followed by a reduction in the quality of university innovations.
Coalition of scientists and research agencies argue for a one-stop shop server.
In the 1960s three African-American women helped put astronauts into orbit. Hidden Figures tells their story, but women in science are still battling inequality.
A plan setting out what the Dutch are already doing and what they plan to do to grasp the opportunities and at the same time make science even more accessible to others.
If we were to have to invent the scholarly publishing system again from scratch today, what would it look like?
The War on Science is more than a skirmish over funding, censorship, and “alternative facts”. It’s a battle for the future, basic decency, and the people we love.
While we need to alert researchers to the presence of predatory journals, we should mostly put our efforts into transforming the academic research environment and reward systems, raising standards and developing true collegiality both within and between institutions.
Research on academics’ writing practices has revealed tensions around the ways in which managerial practices interact with academics’ individual career goals, disciplinary values and sense of scholarly identity.
