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Exploring research career transitions and shaping research culture in the UK.
The world’s most potent technologists are stranded in today’s innovation ecosystem.
It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell.
Implicit biases are pervasive and unavoidable. But they can be changed.
FAIR doesn’t actually require the data or software to be openly available.
Now that the major players have agreed to the giant European Open Science Cloud, it’s time to get the project moving.
As the number of publishers that choose profit over ethics grows, find out how to avoid their scams and support organizations promoting best practices in scholarly communication.
How retractions and peer-review problems are exploited to attack science.
His experiences on a panel reviewing Canadian grant allocation has convinced Jonathan Grant that the evidence base for current practice needs serious reinforcement.
Louis Pasteur was a scientific giant of the nineteenth century, but, as Joseph Gal asks, was his most famouscontribution to the understanding of chemistry — chirality — influenced more by his artistic talents?
This article is a first-hand account of Jeffrey Beall’s work identifying and listing predatory publishers from 2012 to 2017.
It is surely misguided for funding agencies — for instance, the Swiss National Science Foundation — to prohibit the use of commercial data platforms by grant-holders.
Or why we should choose what to fund at random.
Why do we need middlemen in academia in the era of electronic publishing?
Computational scientists develop a system for spotting data overdue for public release, and end up getting hundreds of open-access datasets corrected.
How academic publishing may change in the years to come.
Open-access mandates have the potential to significantly harm the publishing industry, writes the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property.
The author of a new study of biomedical funding explains why he’s optimistic about young scientists’ futures.
Peer review recognition company Publons is set to expand under new owners. Could this boost peer review and stop it being seen as an onerous, thankless task?
Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.
The President's proposed budget guts scientific research and protection, because it either doesn't know what science is for, or doesn't care.
In recent years, observers have noticed that articles for which an APC has been paid are not always made freely available. How pervasive is this problem?
Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields – but how do we make sure it behaves morally?
The evolution to a high-profit industry was never planned. Academics need to make the case for lower-cost journals.
Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe