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Ethical Research - the Long and Bumpy Road from Shirked to Shared
From all too scarce, to professionalized, the ethics of research is now everybody's business, argues Sarah Franklin.
Academics Protest As Cambridge Fellow Told to Leave Britain
Letter warns immigration rules may damage UK universities' ability to attract global talent
Citizen Science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Citizen Science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Data from conventional sources cannot fully measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here the authors present a roadmap describing how citizen-science data can integrate traditional data and make a significant contribution in support of the SDGs agenda.
Identifying Publications in Questionable Journals in the Context of Performance-based Research Funding
Identifying Publications in Questionable Journals in the Context of Performance-based Research Funding
Study finds that the number of publications in open access journals rises every year, while the number of publications in questionable journals decreases from 2012 onwards. Both early career and more senior researchers publish in questionable journals.
A Turning Point is a Time for Reflection - Crossref
Crossref strives for balance. Different people have always wanted different things from us and, since our founding, we have brought together diverse organizations to have discussions-sometimes contentious-to agree on how to help make scholarly communications better. Being inclusive can mean slow progress, but we've been able to advance by being flexible, fair, and forward-thinking. We have been helped by the fact that Crossref's founding organizations defined a clear purpose in our original certificate of incorporation, which reads:
Tenured and Tenure-track Faculty Must Combat an Incremental Erosion of Faculty Governance
Tenured and Tenure-track Faculty Must Combat an Incremental Erosion of Faculty Governance
Tenured and tenure-track faculty are called upon to combat an incremental erosion of faculty governance.
The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable
The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.
Math Looks The Same In The Brains Of Boys And Girls, Study Finds
A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged in basic math tasks, researchers reported.
Impact Factor Volatility to a Single Paper: A Comprehensive Analysis of 11639 Journals
How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong
Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we're facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios.
Physics Worth More to EU Economy Than Retail and Financial Services
Industries that rely on physics expertise contribute more to the EU economy than financial services or retail, according to a new study.
Increasing Gender Diversity in the STEM Research Workforce
In this article, potentially high-impact policy changesare outlined that build upon existing mechanisms for research funding and governance and that can be rapidly implemented to counteract barriers facing women in science. These approaches must be coupled to vigorous and continuous outcomes-based monitoring, so that the most successful strategies can be disseminated and widely implemented.
'Location-specific' Blocks on Journal Access Could Be OA 'interim Solution'
'Geo-specific access models' will help overcome problem of different nations having different policies towards open access, European Commission expert argues.
The Beijing Declaration on Research Data
The Beijing Declaration is intended as a timely statement of core principles to encourage global cooperation, especially for public research data.
Better Methods Can't Make Up for Mediocre Theory
With better questions, many reproducibility problems will fall away, says Paul Smaldino.
Leaked Document on Elsevier Negotiations Sparks Controversy - ScienceGuide
Leaked Document on Elsevier Negotiations Sparks Controversy - ScienceGuide
In exchange for full open access Elsevier requests full cooperation in a number of (meta)data projects. Initial responses to the proposed deal show a fear of 'vendor lock-in'.
Nature at 150: Evidence in Pursuit of Truth
A century and a half has seen momentous changes in science. But evidence and transparency are more important than ever before.
Octopus: a Radical New Approach to Scientific Publishing
In order to align incentives with good science, we need to move to a system in which work that is well thought-out, well carried-out, and well communicated – regardless of the ‘story’ it tells – is given the highest reward. Changing what is rewarded will change what is done.
Peer Review: New Initiatives to Enhance the Value of eLife's Process
Michael Eisen, eLife's Editor-in-Chief, reflects on lessons learned from a recent peer-review trial, and describes how eLife aims to make peer review more effective.
Make Code Accessible with These Cloud Services
Container platforms let researchers run each other's software - and check the results.
Nasa's Voyager 2 Sends Back Its First Message from Interstellar Space
The Nasa craft is the second to travel beyond heliosphere but gives the most detailed data yet.
Self-plagiarism: When is Re-purposing Text Ethically Justifiable?
Mark Israel explores the ethics of self-plagiarism and asks, when is it right to reproduce social research?
Graduate Student's Death at UW Madison is a Devastating Cautionary Tale
Graduate Student's Death at UW Madison is a Devastating Cautionary Tale
A graduate student's suicide at UW Madison is a devastating cautionary tale about abusive lab environments.
7 Things Manifesto Writers Should Know About Science | Wellcome
A UK election has been called for the 12 December. That means the scramble is on for the political parties to pull together a manifesto that will capture the imagination and lead to votes.
Science Must Move with the Times
Can science continue to fulfil its social contract and to reach new horizons by advancing on the same footing into the future? Or does something need to shift?
Open Crowdsourced List of Society Journals
Unpaywall Journals needed data on whether a given journal is associated with an academic society, to help inform librarians in their subscription decisions. Alas there was no open source of this information. There is now!
Community Comments and Peer Review: A Preprint Commenting Pilot at PLOS
We're increasing peer review transparency by making it easier for public comments on preprints to be considered in the review process at PLOS journals.
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