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Bastian Greshake has analysed the full Sci-Hub corpus and found that articles are being downloaded from all over the world, more recently published papers are among the most requested, and there is a marked overrepresentation of requested articles from journals publishing on chemistry.
It is surely misguided for funding agencies — for instance, the Swiss National Science Foundation — to prohibit the use of commercial data platforms by grant-holders.
Recently, a new tool has come out that allows users to ‘jump the paywall’ and access research articles for free. It’s called Unpaywall, and it works by using information contained within papers.
Why do we need middlemen in academia in the era of electronic publishing?
This article is a first-hand account of Jeffrey Beall’s work identifying and listing predatory publishers from 2012 to 2017.
Government offers 4-year grants worth up to €1.5million
What can we do to promote the productive use of preprints in biology?
Approach allows reviewers to focus on the stuff they know best, speeds up process.
Analysis backs controversial proposal to cap grant funding for bigger labs.
Computational scientists develop a system for spotting data overdue for public release, and end up getting hundreds of open-access datasets corrected.
An international league of scientists is kicking off the decades-long process of developing the successor to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
There is a movement within the scientific community that asks for greater collaboration between research teams. The idea is that with greater access to information, more people working separately on the same problems can solve them more efficiently and with the greatest transparency.
Long-time physician-scientist retains job he has held since 2009.
NSF’s Directorate of Biological Sciences just announced that they are getting rid of the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) program.
An introduction to research data management and sharing, starting Jun 19.
Learn the skills to supercharge your next audit, quality improvement or research project.
Avoiding the r-word would make it easier for researchers to correct the literature after an honest mistake.
With algorithms in hand, scientists are looking to make elections in the United States more representative.
Ahead of his address at Going Global 2017, Phil Baty looks at the relationship between the world’s best universities and their place in the world
Researchers refuse to sit on evaluation panels after government bans international participation.
