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With a focus on deep reporting, a print magazine, and an intense affinity for illustrations, nonprofit Nautilus has taken an expensive approach to launching a new science publication.
An interview with Tom Culley, Marketing Director of Publons, on how provide recognition for this vital part of the scientific process.
This paper presents a brief overview of emerging policies to open up access to research data in the United States.
The replication crisis in science is largely attributable to a mismatch in our expectations of how often findings should replicate and how difficult it is to actually discover true findings in certain fields.
Why government leaders should publish the reams of data they’re collecting — and why citizens everywhere should push them to do so.
On The Natural Selection of Bad Science.
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus praise the growing scrutiny of scientific publications.
Covering sexism and sexual harassment in the sciences and academia may not yet be a full-fledged beat for journalists, but it's getting there.
UC Davis and CDL Investigation of the Institutional Costs of Gold Open Access
New 2016 Top 500 world university rankings conducted by CWCU of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities).
Nobel prize winning ideas are not always accepted by the community. By definition, they are paradigm shifting, revolutionary.
Encourage girls to explore scientific career paths.
Stephanie Wykstra Ivan Oransky Stuart Buck Brian Nosek Julia Galef (Moderator) How can we produce research findings that are both useful and robust?
Study showing open access papers have a 50% greater citation advantage than articles behind paywalls.
We bring together scientists, engineers, programmers, business analysts, and journalists to disseminate best-practices in data visualization and accelerate the bleeding edge technology.
How is the rise in team science and the emergence of the research group as the fundamental unit of organization of science affecting scientists’ opportunities to collaborate?
A mission-based, independent publisher standing for fairness and return approximately 25% of revenue to the research community.
Technologies based on the electronic analysis of large amounts of works are still in their infancy, and the possibilities they might open up in the future are largely unpredictable.
Lab Carpentry provides training resources and example documents for lab management to busy scientists.
Johns Hopkins University Press' Project MUSE online platform will host scholarly monographs and materials in humanities and social sciences.
Google Scholar is great, but its inclusiveness and mix of automatically updated and hand-curated profiles means you should never take any of its numbers at face value.
In our global survey on innovations in scholarly communication, we asked researchers what tools they use for a large number of activities across the research cycle.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is alarming. Like many researchers in computing and social science, writing scripts, bots, or scrapers that collect online data is a normal part of my work.
APCs are priced to reflect what the market will bear, which may or may not having anything to do with actual cost, since the “journal’s editorial and technical processes” are only one factor in the overall pricing.