Publish Peer Reviews
Jessica K. Polka and colleagues call on journals to sign a pledge to make reviewers’ anonymous comments part of the official scientific record.
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Open Letter on the Publication of Peer Review Reports
Open letter signed by many journals supporting the idea that publishing peer review reports would benefit the research community by increasing transparency of the assessment process.
Serbia Adopts National Open Science Policy
The Serbian Government has adopted a national policy mandating open access (OA) to all publications resulting from publicly-funded research in Serbia. The policy, titled the Open Science Platform, was introduced by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MESTD), the main funder for research in Serbia, in July 2018. EIFL welcomes the adoption of the policy, which makes a major contribution to improving visibility and discoverability of Serbian research outputs.
After Years of Effort, Physicists Spot Higgs Boson Decaying in Most Ordinary Way
After Years of Effort, Physicists Spot Higgs Boson Decaying in Most Ordinary Way
Observation confirms, yet again, a prediction of physicists' standard model.
Do You Need a Science Degree to Be a Science Reporter?
Journalists covering crime or education are not typically expected to have a degree in those subjects. But science journalism is often considered a more technical and knowledge-heavy beat. This article examines advantages and drawbacks of becoming a science reporter from a variety of backgrounds.
How to Start or Flip an Open Access Journal
Are you in the process of starting an open access journal, or are you planning to transition an existing journal to an OA publishing model? In this post we break out all the steps to get an OA publication up and running.
Referees Should Exercise Their Rights
Peer reviewers have the right to view the data and code that underlie a work if it would help in the evaluation, even if these have not been provided with the submission. Yet few referees exercise this right.
Mozilla Announces 26 New Fellows in Openness, Science, and Tech Policy
25 technologists, activists, and scientists will spend the next 10 to 12 months creating a more secure, inclusive, and decentralized internet.
20 Ways Blockchain May Improve Education
26 ways that digital ledger technology could be deployed by school districts, networks, postsecondary institutions and community-based organizations to improve learning opportunities.
Russian Bots Were Used to Sow Divisions on Vaccines
The campaign may have increased misperceptions that the science on the safety of vaccines isn’t settled - as is the case - but rather subject to debate.
Scaling Up Paywalled Academic Article Sharing by Legal Means
Announcing R4R to connect authors to peers
Dimensions: Building Context for Search and Evaluation
Dimensions by Digital Science (owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing) is a new database that includes not only data about publications and their natural associated citation graph, but also awarded grant data, patent data and clinical data and altmetric attention data.
A Toolkit for Data Transparency Takes Shape
A simple software toolset can help to ease the pain of reproducing computational analyses.
The A to Z of Paper Authorship
To keep authorship fair, journals in all fields should list authors based on their contribution rather than in alphabetical order.
Patients With Rare Diseases Ought to Get Free Access to Taxpayer-Funded Medical Research, Critics Argue
Patients With Rare Diseases Ought to Get Free Access to Taxpayer-Funded Medical Research, Critics Argue
There’s a real problem behind this Twitter spat.
What's Stopping Young African Scientists from Achieving Their Potential
The Global State of Young Scientists Africa project investigates the challenges that shape the career trajectories of young African scientists.
Open Science Is Now the Only Way Forward for Psychology
A look at the journey psychology has made toward becoming a robust and mature science.
A 171-Year-Old Suggestion to Promote Open Science
Just like judges and politicians, researchers may overstate their confidence in a claim. To truly assess their confidence, something needs to be on the line.
Prioritize the Needs of the Audience When Giving a Presentation
Speakers inadvertently prepare presentations for themselves rather than their audiences. A few mental exercises can help presenters to avoid this pitfall.
Are Open Data Actually Reusable?
Many efforts are underway to promote data sharing in psychology, however it is currently unclear if the in-principle benefits of data availability are being realized in practice. In a recent study, we found that a mandatory open data policy introduced at the journal Cognition led to a substantial increase in available data, but a considerable portion of this data was not reusable. For data to be reusable, it needs to be clearly structured and well-documented. Open data alone will not be enough to achieve the benefits envisioned by proponents of data sharing.
Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability
Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability
This publication provides an overview of some practical tools and strategies that researchers can implement in their own workflow to increase replicability and the overall quality of psychology research.
No More Excuses for Non-Reproducible Methods
Online technologies make it easy to share precise experimental protocols - and doing so is essential to modern science, says Lenny Teytelman.
Crowdfunding Science Festival 2018
Celebrating Science Booster - Switzerland's only platform for science crowdfunding.
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