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PLOS generally refutes the assertion that OA via the UKRI policy is economically damaging, regarding the FTI Consulting report: "Economic assessment of the impact of the new Open Access policy developed by UK Research and Innovation".
The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost. With the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, the volunteer project will change that-and possibly itself too.
We asked doctors, scientists, public health experts and health advocates to take a look back - what would they redo, if they could?
A group of mathematicians invents a fictional researcher as a form of protest, but ethicists argue that the campaign is misguided.
The newly announced California/Elsevier transformative agreement will test the financial sustainability and the financial desirability of the multi-payer model.
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A group of volunteers is preparing to live in complete isolation deep in a cave in southwest France for 40 days as part of a wide-ranging study into human behaviour.
Although women now make up a narrow majority of students, few make it to the academic upper echelons in Switzerland. Change is coming about... slowly.
A Nature poll shows that a year of online research conferences has brought big benefits, but blending them with in-person meetings in future will be a challenge.
Projects tackling some of world's major problems - including the climate crisis - are set to be cancelled or cut back after budget cuts.
Although women now make up a narrow majority of students, few make it to the academic upper echelons in Switzerland. Change is coming about... slowly.
Graduate student advocacy groups were central to designing the program, which provides a semester of funding if a trainee needs time to find a new mentor.
The European Commission is trying to block countries outside the European Union from participating in quantum computing and space projects under Horizon Europe, its new research funding program.
A new study of the city's program that sent cash to struggling individuals finds dramatic changes.
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An analysis of 32 countries finds differences between national guidance and Europe-wide code.
This author weathered repeated rejections, but constructive feedback helped him to find ways to stand out from the crowd.
The International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (ISSI) is an international association of scholars and professionals active in the interdisciplinary study science of science, science communication, and science policy.
Looking for a research paper but can't find a copy in your library's catalog or popular search engines? Give Internet Archive Scholar a try! We might have a PDF from a "vanished" Open Access publisher in our web archive, an author's pre-publication manuscript from their archived faculty webpage.
At the risk of breaking the Fourth Wall, here's a story about peer reviews that weren't - and shouldn't have been.
Yes, all of the COVID-19 vaccines are very good. No, they're not all the same.
After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression.
We've discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually.
The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.
