Why Snakes Probably Aren't Spreading the New China Virus
One genetic analysis suggests reptilian reservoir - but researchers doubt that the coronavirus could have originated in animals other than birds or mammals.
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The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base is a collaborative initiative to curate and share knowledge about the what, why, and how of open scholarship.
Berghahn will flip thirteen anthropology journals to open access in 2020
Berghahn Books will take the step of publishing thirteen core anthropology journals as open access starting with their 2020 volumes under the subscribe-to-open model (S2O).
Offline: Scientific publishing - trust and tribulations
Scientific publishers as we know them today remain a threatened species. They will have to do more to prove their added value to science and society. Unless they do so, they may not deserve to survive.
It's Not What Libraries Hold; It's Who Libraries Serve
The business of higher education, as it relates to libraries, is undergoing continued and drastic change. Managing collections is now only one aspect of library management, which is moving towards a user-centered future.
'People Can't Learn About Treatments They Need': Why Open Access to Medical Research Matters
'People Can't Learn About Treatments They Need': Why Open Access to Medical Research Matters
Campaigners have argued for open access to scientific research since the dawn of the internet - so why is it taking so long?
Tell It Like It is: On the Pressure to Provide 'Clean' Narratives
Tell It Like It is: On the Pressure to Provide 'Clean' Narratives
Science is messy, and the results of research rarely conform fully to plan or expectation. ‘Clean’ narratives are an artefact of inappropriate pressures and the culture they have generated.
Access for Patients - and Other Ways to Get Elsevier Articles Without a Subscription
Access for Patients - and Other Ways to Get Elsevier Articles Without a Subscription
We're updating our list of free and low-cost article access programs, including patient/caregiver access.
Software Searches out Reproducibility Issues in Scientific Papers
Software Searches out Reproducibility Issues in Scientific Papers
Papers are getting more rigorous, according to a text-mining analysis of 1.6 million papers, but progress is slower than some researchers would like.
Measuring Originality in Science
Originality has self-evident importance for science, but objectively measuring originality poses a formidable challenge.
Citation Concept Analysis (CCA): A New Form of Citation Analysis
In recent years, the full text of papers are increasingly available electronically which opens up the possibility of quantitatively investigating citation contexts in more detail.
Early Career Performance and Its Correlation with Gender and Publication Output During Doctoral Education
Early Career Performance and Its Correlation with Gender and Publication Output During Doctoral Education
The publication output of doctoral students is increasingly used in selection processes for funding and employment in their early careers.
Childhood Obesity Is a Major Problem. Research Isn't Helping.
Childhood obesity is a major public health problem, and has been for some time - but something is missing with many study methods.
Journal Brand and Research Culture
Opinion: Things are not right in the culture of research, and that this is ultimately to the detriment of research. Two issues emerge: the huge complexity of the research ecosystem, and the related problem of collective action that this complexity creates.
WHO Calls for Emergency Meeting on New China Virus, As Cases Spread
The WHO's annnouncement came as China confirmed cases in Beijing and in Guangdong province, as well as a confirmed incident involving human-to-human spread.
Funders Launch Curation Awards for Learned Societies
Up to £200,000 per society available for flagging important biomedical research outputs.
Strengthening the Open Science Ecosystem Through Preprints
Preprints, or versions of manuscripts posted online by authors ahead of peer review, are seeing a strong increase in adoption and recognition among many communities in the biomedical sciences.
Global Science, China's Rise, and European Anxiety
Global Science, China's Rise, and European Anxiety
While some talk about global science, China's skyrocketing investment in its scientific sector is causing real anxiety for Europe.
The 2020 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Chief Academic Officers
The 2020 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Chief Academic Officers
What chief academic officers think about the academic health of their institutions, the role of tenure, general education and much more.
Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil
Mr. Greenwald is accused of being part of a "criminal investigation" that hacked into the cellphones of prosecutors and public officials.
Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete
"A Frankenstein material" is teeming with - and ultimately made by - photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce.
Data Without Software Are Just Numbers
Great strides have been made to encourage researchers to archive data created by research and provide the necessary systems to support their storage. Additionally it is recognised that data are meaningless unless their provenance is preserved, through appropriate meta-data. Alongside this is a pressing need to ensure the quality and archiving of the software that generates data, through simulation, control of experiment or data-collection and that which analyses, modifies and draws value from raw data.
Stress, Anxiety, Harassment: Huge Survey Reveals Pressures of Scientists' Working Lives
Stress, Anxiety, Harassment: Huge Survey Reveals Pressures of Scientists' Working Lives
Global study highlights long hours, poor job security and mental-health struggles.
Chinese Universities Are Enshrining Communist Party Control In Their Charters
Chinese Universities Are Enshrining Communist Party Control In Their Charters
China's best universities change its charter to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.
Putin Wanted Russian Science to Top the World. Then a Huge Academic Scandal Blew Up.
Putin Wanted Russian Science to Top the World. Then a Huge Academic Scandal Blew Up.
Eight years ago, President Vladimir Putin decreed that Russia must become a leading scientific power. That meant at least five top-100 Russian universities by 2020, and a dramatic increase in the number of global citations of Russian scientific papers. Now a group at the center of Putin’s aspirations, the Russian Academy of Sciences, has dropped a bombshell into the plans. A commission set up by the academy has led to the retraction of at least 869 Russian scientific articles, mainly for plagiarism.
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