Young, Talented and Fed-up
Scientists starting labs say that they are under historically high pressure to publish, secure funding and earn permanent positions — leaving precious little time for actual research.
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Open in Action
Over a decade has passed since the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. A bystander could be forgiven for thinking that the level of discussion and the apparent differences in position across higher education institutions, publishing houses, laboratories, conference halls, funder headquarters, and government buildings must mean that progress has been limited.
Reproducibility and Reliability of Biomedical Research: Improving Research Practice
Reproducibility and Reliability of Biomedical Research: Improving Research Practice
Progress update from symposium sponsors: The Academy of Medical Sciences, the BBSRC, the MRC and Wellcome Trust.
Why You Need to Publish Open Access
Articles published open access are cited more often than articles that are not. End of Story.
oaDOI
oaDOI is an alternative DOI resolver that gets free fulltext where available, instead of just an article landing page.
The Effect of Gender in the Publication Patterns in Mathematics
Significant differences between genders which may put women at a disadvantage when pursuing an academic career in mathematics.
Open Access and Preprints for Scholars and Journals
How can more scholars and journals embrace preprints to make research freely accessible? This slideshow co-created by Scholastica and Authorea addresses this question and more.
COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
COPE has produced some guidelines which set out the basic principles and standards to which all peer reviewers should adhere during the peer-review process in research publication. The aim has been to make them generic so that they can be applied across disciplines.
Let Researchers Try New Paths
Demand for steady output stymies discovery. To pursue the most important research, scientists must be allowed to shift their focus.
Philosophy and History of Open Science
A two-day conference bringing together contemporary open science advocates and scholars to discuss particular themes relevant to openness in contemporary research practice.
Young Scientists Under Pressure
Young researchers are having to fight harder than past generations for a smaller share of the academic pie.
Nature Special Issue on Young Scientists
The research enterprise sometimes keeps scientists from pursuing the best ideas: intense competition forces researchers to prioritize publishing papers over tackling important questions. A special issue explores the problems facing early and mid-career scientists, and how to solve them.
A New Buzzword for Academics Needing Research Money
With usual funding sources squeezed, and Brexit round the corner, researchers are asking the public to fund their studies through crowdfunding – from bees to LSD
The Best of Both Worlds
For some time now PLOS has discussed new initiatives designed to accelerate research communication.
Half of Academics Confused
Half of Academics Confused
Survey reveals three quarters of academics have shared data despite widespread uncertainty.
How To Be an Academic in the Twenty-First Century
Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties.
Most research I publish will be wrong. And I’m OK with that
A computational guy’s take on the “reproducibility crisis”
An Adviser's Responsibility
Lynn Kamerlin makes a point of supporting her trainees' career aspirations, whatever they may be
Married to the(ir) job: living with an academic
Scholars and their significant others share the good, the bad and the ugly.
Biology Preprints Over Time: An Update
While the practice of preprinting in the life sciences is not completely new, it has grown dramatically over the past few years.
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