Why You Need to Publish Open Access
Articles published open access are cited more often than articles that are not. End of Story.
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The Open Preprint Repository Network
A free, open source, preprints repository, api, and aggregator for arXiv, PeerJ, Research Papers in Economics, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, and others.
Keep Publicly Funded Research Public
When we pay for federally funded research, we should be allowed to read it. That’s the simple premise of FASTR, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act.
Who's Not Sharing Their Clinical Trial Results?
Explore our data to see the universities, government bodies and pharmaceutical companies that fail to share their clinical trial results.
Anti-globalization Rhetoric Threatens Scientific and Technological Progress
Anti-globalization Rhetoric Threatens Scientific and Technological Progress
The U.S. depends on international collaborations and immigrants to solve domestic and global problems.
Making Data and Tools Available for the World To See
At ATLAS, data sharing and an open, innovative approach to information collaboration has become a fundamental part of this important scientific community.
Interview with Professor Jim Smith
Jim Smith is a Professor of Developmental Biology at the Francis Crick Institute.
Maximizing the Local Economic Impact of Federal R&D
Federally funded research and development (R&D) is a hallmark of the U.S. economy but, it's under siege. To maximize and make apparent the economic returns from R&D, the next administration should seek to improve the local economic impact of federal R&D.
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.
Susan Lindquist, Accomplished and Beloved Scientist, Has Died at Age 67
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit, independent research and educational institution known as a world leader in biomedical research.
ScienceOpen Partners with PeerJ
PeerJ will be indexing one of their flagship open access journals, PeerJ Computer Science, with ScienceOpen.
Freeing a Scientific Mind to Envision Big Research: Packard Fellowship to Will Ratcliff
Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.
Biden Presents Five-Year Cancer Moonshot Plan
Biden announced a comprehensive plan for his Cancer Moonshot initiative, which seeks to achieve a decade’s worth of progress on cancer research in five years.
President Obama Pushes Innovation ‘Frontiers’ in STEM
More than $300M in new STEM initiatives were announced at the White House Frontiers Conference.
It’s time for science to abandon the term ‘statistically significant’
It’s time for science to abandon the term ‘statistically significant’
Academic psychology and medical testing are both dogged by unreliability. The reason is clear: we got probability wrong.
OpenTrials Launches Beta Version
Open Knowledge International is delighted to announce the launch of the public preview beta version of OpenTrials at a panel session on ‘Fostering Open Science in Global Health’.
Show us your research two days before publishing, government orders academics
Research must be sent to DfE two days before publishing
United Nations report calls for OA to improve global health
Last month the United Nations released a report with recommendations on how to improve innovation and access to health technologies.
Commitment to Research Transparency and Open Science
A voluntary commitment to the values of openness and transparency in science.
Academic Journal Reviews
Academic Journal Reviews
A place for academics to review the publishing process at peer-reviewed journals.
MacArthur Fellows 2016
MacArthur Fellowships, or "Genius Grants" are awarded annually to between 20 and 30 individuals who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the US.
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