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Loss of Net Neutrality Could Harm Research
Moves to create a multi-speed Internet could push science into the slow lane.
How Can you Spot a Predatory Journal?
How can one discern if the paper that they are reading is from a predatory journal or not?
The Future of Academic Publishing and Advice for Youthful Researchers
An interview presents the perspectives of Jonathan Tennant, an early-career researcher.
Katherine Hayhoe: 'The True Threat Is the Delusion That Our Opinion of Science Somehow Alters Its Reality'
Katherine Hayhoe: 'The True Threat Is the Delusion That Our Opinion of Science Somehow Alters Its Reality'
Climatologist Katherine Hayhoe says that scientists have no option but to fight against the politicisation of science.
Why Are We Working So Hard to Open up Science? A Personal Story.
Discussing the negative impacts of inaccessible outcomes, unavailable data, and doctored results in advancing science in general, and that impact in very concrete personal terms.
Universities Spend Millions on Accessing Results of Publicly Funded Research
Universities in New Zealand spent close to US$15 million on subscriptions to just four publishers in 2016, data that was only released following a request to the Ombudsman.
Sowing the Seeds of Diversity in Engineering
Only 14 percent of all engineers in the U.S. today are women, and the gender imbalance continues, or even worsens, when women enter the workforce.
"It Gnaws Away at Me": Female Scientists Report a Horrifying Culture of Sexual Assault
Macron to Award US Climate Scientists 'Make Our Planet Great Again' Grants
Ken Caldeira Explains Why the Tax Overhaul Could Cripple the U.S. As a Leader in Science
New Feature Aims to Draw Journals Into Post-Publication Comments on PubPeer
The Journal Dashboards allow journals to see what people are saying about the papers they published, and allows readers to know which journals are particularly responsive to community feedback.
CORE Aggregates the World's Open Access Research Papers
Offering seamless access to millions of open access research papers, enrich the collected data for text-mining and provide unique services to the research community.
Promising to ‘Make Our Planet Great Again,’ Macron lures 13 U.S. climate scientists to France
Promising to ‘Make Our Planet Great Again,’ Macron lures 13 U.S. climate scientists to France
The awarding of the grants comes as the Trump administration has proposed slashing federal science budgets and has dropped out of the Paris climate accord.
Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought
The infrastructure school, the public school, the measurement school, the democratic school, and the pragmatic school.
Spotting Shady Statistics
When statistical fudging is buried in the way data are sliced and diced after the fact or put through tortured analysis in a search for significant results.
Book Dissects Research Fraud from an Organizational Level
Using a database of 750 cases of research fraud from around the world, professors examine fraud as a phenomenon, tracing its history and trajectory and looking at what can be done about it.
Is Media Driving Americans Apart?
Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
Open Journal Systems Is Not for Sale
With the recent acquisition of bepress by Elsevier, we’ve been asked by a number of people if Open Journal Systems is next.
Science's Data Secrecy Problem
A surprising amount of publicly funded research data stays private. How could that change?
An Ineffective and Unworthy Institution
Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review
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