Printing Delays Present ‘New Normal’ for Academic Books
Printer closures and paper shortages create scheduling headaches for academic authors and staff at university presses.
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Establishing online mentorship for early career researchers: Lessons from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping International Mentoring Programme
Establishing online mentorship for early career researchers: Lessons from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping International Mentoring Programme
Mentorship in academia facilitates personal growth through pairing trainees with mentors who can share insight and expertise.Expertise can be purely academic, on work‐life balance, personal branding and networking, or general career advice. Mentoring has been shown to be beneficial for mentees, both in terms of objective research productivity and subjective outcomes. Several institutions/organizations have formal in‐person mentoring programs that pair early‐ to mid‐career researchers with mentors who are not their direct supervisors. With global integration in science, however, geographical proximity between mentors and mentees is relevant to a lesser degree.
Global State of Peer Review
The Global State of Peer Review is one of the largest ever studies into the practice of scholarly peer review around the world. Discover the findings here.
Research Grants on Hold As US Government Shutdown Persists
Agencies including the National Science Foundation are without funding
Surely You're a Creep, Mr. Feynman
#MeToo has not much altered the science professions, and it likely won't until the culture of science is dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.
As PNAS Calls Time on Print, Will More Journals Follow Suit?
End of prestigious print publication after 103 years stirs debate over future of journal publishing in the digital age.
Four Lessons About Transitioning from Academia to the 'Real World'
The move from Academia to the 'real world' requires a few crucial mindset shifts.
What It's Like to Be a Woman in the Academy
We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.
DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos
The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.
Peer Review: First Results from a Trial at ELife
New approach to peer review proves popular with authors, with very similar acceptance rates for male and female last authors, but with higher acceptance rates for late-career researchers compared to their early- and mid-career colleagues.
Large Scale Publisher Survey Reveals Global Trends in Open Access Publishing
A survey of publishers with journals indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published.
Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds
An analysis concluded that earth's oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.
The Double-bind Theory of Scholarly Publishing
Open Acess and Plan S in particular create a conflict between editorial quality and the cost of publication.
Life in the Lab
So, there I was, pipette in hand, doing actual labwork for the first time in a year. How had it come to this? When I started out, I was convinced I was not going to be one of those PIs who is never in the lab.
White House Finally Gets a Science Adviser
Research community welcomes meteorologist as Trump's new science adviser, after two years without one, but the office he will run is currently closed.
Bold Plan to Take European Open Access Initiative Global in 2019
Robert-Jan Smits is pitching the Plan S vision to transform academic publishing to the world’s big science funding bodies.
What Scientists Searched for in 2018
The most-searched keywords in the Scopus database and on Google, revealed.
How to Shine in Indonesian Science? Game the System
Indonesia researchers have inflated their Indonesia’s Science and Technology Index (SINTA) score by publishing large numbers of papers in low-quality journals, citing their own work excessively, or forming networks of scientists who cited each other.
Italian Health Chief Says He Resigned over 'Anti-scientific' Policies
Walter Ricciardi, the head of Italy's national health research organisation, says the populist government has 'difficulty interacting with science'.
Swiss Researchers Struggle to Get Animal Experiments Approved
Scientists say that increasingly rigorous licensing procedures have complicated research efforts - and in some cases, stopped experiments completely.
Digital Humanities + Libraries: Revolution or Evolution?
The US focus of digital humanities in libraries seems to be shifting toward skills, tools and methods and away from collections and projects.
How Not to Scare off Women: Different Needs of Female Early-stage Researchers in STEM and SSH Fields
How Not to Scare off Women: Different Needs of Female Early-stage Researchers in STEM and SSH Fields
Women researchers are underrepresented in almost all research fields. There are disciplinary differences in the phase in which they tend to quit their academic career: in the natural and technical sciences (STEM), it is in the postdoctoral phase, whereas in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) it is during the doctoral phase.
Reproducibility of Research is Critical for Open Science and Open Britain
Reproducibility of Research is Critical for Open Science and Open Britain
Science that is robust and reproducible will stimulate economic growth and social benefits, argue Marcus Munafò and Neil Jacobs
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