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An examination of the ethical, organisational, and economic strengths and weaknesses of funder OA platforms to scope the opportunities and threats they present in the transition to OA.
A new search engine that aims to connect nonacademics with open-access research will be launched this fall. Get the Research will connect the public with 20 million open-access scholarly articles. The site will be built by Impactstory in conjunction with the Internet Archive and the British Library.
Universities need to rethink how they evaluate academics for promotion.
Article covers basic principles and summarise best practices, indicating how to use Open Peer Review to achieve best value and mutual benefits for all stakeholders and the wider research community.
What models or practices could be developed to help incentivize and reward innovation and diverse forms of scholarly communication and public engagement while reducing the risk to those who are seen to be diverging from traditional modes of professional practices and advancement?
A web application showing how successful universities or research-focused institutions collaborate.
Techniques for overcoming the challenges of open manuscript writing.
New interface shifts from journal metrics to journal intelligence, offering richer data and greater transparency for comprehensive assessment.
Stencila launches the first version of its word processor and spreadsheet editor designed for researchers.
Asking whether Twitter allows scientists to promote their findings primarily to other scientists ("inreach"), or whether it can help them reach broader, non-scientific audiences ("outreach"). Results should encourage scientists to invest in building a social media presence for scientific outreach.
How a process designed to ensure scientific rigor is tainted by randomness, bias, and arbitrary delays.
If only I had known then what I know now, 16 years later, this is what I would have told myself.
Supporting the EUA membership with the development of research assessment approaches that focus on research quality, potential and future impact, and that take into account Open Science practices.
What are researchers to do when they lose confidence in their previously published work? A new project has an answer. Will it help the replication crisis?
In the 1990s, the Internet offered a horizon from which to imagine what society could become, promising autonomy and self-organization next to redistribution of wealth and collectivized means of production. While the former was in line with the dominant ideology of freedom, the latter ran contrary to the expanding enclosures in capitalist globalization.
Elsevier - one of the largest and most notorious scholarly publishers - are monitoring Open Science in the EU on behalf of the European Commission. Jon Tennant argues that they cannot be trusted.
eLife is conducting a trial in which authors will decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review.
This free tool helps you shortlist verified open access journals from DOAJ for publishing your manuscript thereby safeguarding you from predatory journals.
Polling shows that the number of people who believe science has "made life more difficult" increased by 50 percent from 2009 to 2015.
Even after a paper’s retracted, it will continue to be cited - often by researchers who don’t realize the findings are problematic.
What’s the scientific value of the Stanford Prison Experiment? Zimbardo responds to the new allegations against his work.
A heuristic (exploratory) comparison of several new, free / mainstream academic search tools, concluding that their effectivness improves if an institution's library licenses them for off-campus authentication.
Some of the field’s most notable thinkers call on the American Psychiatric Association to permit discussion of public figures' mental health in some cases.
There is an urgent need to strengthen funding for the interaction between science and society, but the EU's proposal for Horizon Europe does not foresee a programme dedicated to Science with and for Society.
A reflection as the seventh editor-in-chief of Nature hands over to the eighth.
