Year One of The Open Library of Humanities
September 2016 marks the first year anniversary of the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. To celebrate, we thought we'd share some statistics about the platform and its growth.
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How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
Internal sugar industry documents suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.
Elsevier's Ridiculous Patent on Online Peer Review
Elsevier's Ridiculous Patent on Online Peer Review
I have just learned that Elsevier, after a lengthy review and negotiation process with the US Patent Office, have been awarded a US Patent on “Online Peer Review System and Method”. What is this about and why is it ridiculous to me.
A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions
Although the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is widely acknowledged to be a poor indicator of the quality of individual papers, it is used routinely to evaluate research and researchers. Here, we present a simple method for generating the citation distributions that underlie JIFs.
Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve
Ask people what’s wrong in American higher education, and you’ll hear about grade inflation.
LSE to give female academics pay rises to close gap with men
Internal analysis finds women earn 10.5 per cent less than men of similar experience and research productivity
Open access 'boosts citations by a fifth'
New study looks at what happened when a university made its publications publicly available through an institutional repository
EMBO and Wiley launch the SmartFigures Lab
‘SmartFigures Lab’ is a prototype online publishing website with enhanced data presentation capabilities. The site results from the integration of SmartFigures, an open source application of the EMBO SourceData platform, with Wiley’s Content Enrichment Framework and research & development environment.
Gender Bias and the Peer Review Process
Emma Sayer Lecturer, Lancaster University Despite increased efforts to improve gender equality in academia, gender bias still affects many areas of science.
There’s a lot of junk fMRI research out there
It's easy to misrepresent the findings from brain scan studies. Just ask a dead salmon.
Taking the lead in the lab
Eight scientists share the secrets of being a successful principal investigator
Outlook on "Precision Medicine"
A nature Outlook collection of articles on "Precision Medicine"
Where are the data?
Papers accepted for publication in Nature and an initial 12 other Nature titles will be required to include information on whether and how others can access the underlying data.
Digital Science Reveals Catalyst Grant Winners
Etalia, Simiary and Writefull, three companies aiming to disrupt the academic space, are the latest recipients of the Catalyst Grant award for innovative startups.
Figshare Partners with The Royal Society
Figshare Partners with The Royal Society
Figshare announced a new partnership with Royal Society to increase research data discoverability.
Advice for early-career peer reviewers
The peer-review system, despite its flaws, is a central component of the publication process. However, relatively little guidance is provided for early-career scientists on 2 important aspects of peer review:
Journal to rank peer reviewers to improve response times
Idea is one of several ways to speed the peer review process, although some think it will annoy academics
Challenge of our generation
Reproducible, transparent and reliable science.
An efficient system to fund science
This paper presents a novel model of science funding that exploits the wisdom of the scientific crowd. Each researcher receives an equal, unconditional part of all available science funding on a yearly basis, but is required to individually donate to other scientists a given fraction of all they receive. Science funding thus moves from one scientist to the next in such a way that scientists who receive many donations must also redistribute the most. As the funding circulates through the scientific community it is mathematically expected to converge on a funding distribution favored by the entire scientific community. This is achieved without any proposal submissions or reviews.
Give The Public What It Pays For
When you pay for something, you expect to receive it. Whether a physical good or a service, there is the rightful expectation that you will receive something in exchange for your money. The same should be true for scientific research.
Why academics are losing relevance in society – and how to stop it
Academics are getting out of touch with the rest of society. This helps explains the sorry state of our public discourse on science.
Why we have set publisher requirements
Robert Kiley, our Head of Digital Services, explains why Wellcome has introduced a set of publisher requirements for open access publications.
Reforming migration policy on international students
The government's policy focus on reducing net migration is causing unnecessary harm to the UK s international education sector one of the UK s biggest services exports This report asks how through better informed policy the UK can attract more students in a growing and increasingly competitive global marketplace
Commission Mandates Open Data From January 2017
A recent statement from Carlos Moedas told us that “as of the Work Programme 2017, the current Open Research Data Pilot will be extended to cover all thematic areas of Horizon 2020, making open research data the default setting. This means that as of January 1st 2017, all funded proposals will need to make all of the data and digital research outputs they generate openly available.
A Primer on How (Not) to Normalize
Citation metrics are very influential and their normalization is a contentious issue. Each normalization approach has advantages and disadvantages that need to be understood for proper use of these metrics.
Female Scientists Turn to Data to Fight Lack of Representation on Panels
One day in August 2015, the Princeton University neuroscientist Yael Niv saw an email notice of a conference on deep brain stimulation, a hot topic in treatment for depression and other mental disorders. Dr. Niv noticed that none of the 21 scientists scheduled to speak were women.This was not the first time Dr. Niv had lamented a skewed lineup.
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