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Smartest in Class: Male Students 'Overestimate' Intelligence
It smacks of affirmations like ‘if you believe it, you can achieve it’, but men’s academic swagger has a dark side.
The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete
Today's complex, dynamic scientific results are often found with the help of computers. And yet the most popular tool we have for communicating these results is the PDF - literally a simulation of a piece of paper. Maybe we can do better.
What Are the Ten Most Cited Sources on Wikipedia? Let's Ask the Data.
Understanding the provenance of information used by Wikipedians, also allows us to lift a veil on its gaps - the types of sources, languages, and perspectives - that are not represented, which in turn can inform community efforts to improve coverage in underserved content areas.
Hated Science Publisher Elsevier To Help EU Monitor Open Science - Including Open Access
Hated Science Publisher Elsevier To Help EU Monitor Open Science - Including Open Access
Elsevier will be providing data to guide EU policy decisions that it stands to gain from materially in significant ways.
Empowering Early Career Scientists to Engage in Science Advocacy, Policy and Communication
From Babies' Brains to Bacterial Warfare: ERC Invests €650 Million in Ground-Breaking Research
Beijing Launches Pioneering Brain-Science Centre
China’s much-anticipated brain initiative finally starts to take shape.
Elsevier Launches Mendeley Data to Manage Entire Lifecycle of Research Data
Elsevier Launches Mendeley Data to Manage Entire Lifecycle of Research Data
Elsevier has launched Mendeley Data, a new, cloud-based platform designed to help universities and researchers manage, share and showcase their research data. With Mendeley Data, researchers can safely record and share research data while improving its reuse via publication, while universities can showcase institutional outputs and improve their collaboration rate.
Copyright Reforms Draw Fire from Scientists
The latest drafts of the copyright regulations in the EU have triggered a wave of criticism from open-science advocates saying that the proposals will stifle research and scholarly communication.
Elsevier Reports 40% Gender Pay Gap
Elsevier has reported a median pay gap of 40%, more than twice the UK average of 18.4% and the highest yet reported by a publishing company.
Winner of DARPA Robot Competition Partners with Weapons Company, AI Researchers Call For Boycott
Update to Analysis of Open Science Policies Finds New Activity in Multiple Countries
Update to Analysis of Open Science Policies Finds New Activity in Multiple Countries
Open Data policy development in Europe is constantly evolving. In an effort to stay abreast of these changes on behalf of the community, the DCC, together with SPARC Europe, has recently released an update to our analysis of Open Data policies in Europe.
French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals
Negotiations between the publisher and a national consortium of academic institutions have reached a stalemate.
Making the Leap Back to Research
After leaving the lab, these three scientists decided they wanted to go back and made it happen.
Writing a Peer Review Is a Structured Process That Can Be Learned and Improved
Writing a Peer Review Is a Structured Process That Can Be Learned and Improved
12 steps, relevant to both first-time peer reviewers and those keen to brush up on their skills.
How to Get the Most Out of a Conference
It helps to choose the right scholarly meeting and to swallow your discomfort with schmoozing.
To Steal or Not to Steal? Could Sci-Hub Change the Publishing Industry?
Elsevier, a major scientific publisher, has a 36 percent profit margin - bigger than Apple, Amazon, and Google. And it's just one of many. But Sci-Hub could change all that by releasing every article for free.
Cheap Flights Increase Research Collaboration, Study Finds
Expansion of US carrier associated with an increase in partnerships of more than 30 percent.
It’s Time for the US to Get Serious About Funding Open Access
University of California libraries tackle the transition from subscription-based publishing to sustainable open access.
How You Count Counts
The difference between full counting and fractional counting of publiations should inform our interpretation of the headlines.
New Pan-African Open Access Journal
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Next Einstein Forum and Elsevier launch a megajournal to boost African research and collaboration.