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A crowdfunding project to give insights into one possible aspect of gender bias in mathematics. 

JournalReviewer is an independent site that aggregates information users provide about their experience with academic journals' review processes.

Today the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) will remove approximately 3300 journals for failure to submit a valid reapplication before the communicated deadline.

An opinon on the article "Merck Wants Its Money Back if University Research Is Wrong"

John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science.

Notes on Open Science from the Barcamp Science 2.0 and the Science 2.0 Conference.

Crossref will enable members to register preprints in order to clarify the scholarly citation record and better support the changing publishing models of its members.

The Future Of Open Access

The symposium “Personalized Health in the Digitial Age” brings together some of the world's thought leaders in the ongoing revolution in personalized and digital health.

Sci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.

After hundreds of manipulated images were detected across 40 scientific journals, the real work will be to correct the scientific record.

Funding more scientists or more projects increases NIH ability to maximize the number of discoveries as a function of the dollars invested.

We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work while affecting interest in the keynote speaker’s presentation. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus is beginning to emerge?

Shannon had a weakness for juggling and unicycles, but his fingerprints are on every electronic device we own.

Scholarly publishing is broken.

A One-Word Explanation

The impact factor is academia’s worst nightmare. So much has been written about its flaws, both in calculation and application, that there is little point in reiterating the same tired points here …

In response to rising concerns about irreproducible science and the lack of somewhere to openly discuss these issues, we recently launched the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness Channel.

Empowering the Next Generation to Advance Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.

Supporting Europe's innovators through open innovation - 2014-2019

Who reads science blogs, and why? This broad question started this Experiment.com project, and now the results are in.

There is increasing support in the scholarly communications community for “flipping” the standard journal publishing model from subscription-based to “gold” open access...

The replicability of psychological research is surprisingly low. Why? In this blog post I present new evidence showing that questionable research practices contributed to failures to replicate psyc…

You all know about publication bias, don't you? Sure you do. It's the tendency to publish research that has bold, affirmative results and ignore research that concludes there's nothing going on.

I get the feeling that some researchers regard public, post-publication peer review as a non-rigorous, non-structured and poor alternative to traditional peer review...

This week, FORCE2016 is taking place in Portland, USA. The FORCE11 yearly conference is devoted to the utilisation of technological and open science advancements towards a new-age scholarship founded on easily accessible, organised and reproducible research data.

And fixing it won't be easy

The interface between science and business is where innovation is brought to life, but do the two fields always get along?

At ScienceOpen, there’s nothing more we like than good news for open science! That’s why we’re happy this week to see ORCID announcing a new partnership with the DFG, the German R…