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Transparency In Authors' Contributions And Responsibilities To Promote Integrity In Scientific Publication
Transparency In Authors' Contributions And Responsibilities To Promote Integrity In Scientific Publication
Research institutions should have regular open conversations on authorship criteria and ethics and that funding agencies adopt ORCID and accept CRediT.
Who Should Speak for Academics over the Future of Publishing?
Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe
Academics ‘Should Not Sign Over Research Copyright to Publishers’
Report urges academy to ‘embrace’ opportunities for wider research dissemination
Science, Engineering, and Health Doctorates in the Workforce
Exploring the diverse pathways traveled by science, engineering, and health doctorates as they progress through their careers.
Monument to Peer Review Unveiled in Moscow
Cornerstone of modern science immortalized in concrete.
Research Articles Must Be Openly Available
The Research Council of Norway is giving universities and university colleges a six-month deadline to upload articles stemming from Council-funded projects to open repositories.
Untangling Academic Publishing
A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research.
Keeping a Lid on Open Science
Efforts to promote and enforce shared research have made progress in China, but there is much room for improvement.
Trump’s Budget Forgets That Science Is Insurance for America
The President's proposed budget guts scientific research and protection, because it either doesn't know what science is for, or doesn't care.
Is the Nature Index at Odds with DORA?
We find Nature Research's critical attitude towards journal impact factors, embodied in its signing of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA; Nature 544, 394; 2017), to be inconsistent with the aims of its Nature Index.
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
How several free software tools have fundamentally upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire workflow more transparent and streamlined.
Reproducible Research, Just Not Reproducible By You
What happens when an experiment is correct, but it's really hard to replicate? Are there research results that are accurate but not reproducible?
Science's Quality-Control System under Attack
Lengthy publication delays, theft of rivals’ research, allegations of shoddy reviewing, and even the faking of reviews are raising new questions about a decades-old scientific tradition
Academies Calculate How Much Brexit Will Cost Researchers
Some fields will have a tougher time than others finding alternative sources.
How Big a Problem Are Articles that Should Be OA but End Up Behind Paywalls
How Big a Problem Are Articles that Should Be OA but End Up Behind Paywalls
In recent years, observers have noticed that articles for which an APC has been paid are not always made freely available. How pervasive is this problem?
Report Lists Universities and Disciplines Most Dependent on EU Research and Innovation Funding
Report Lists Universities and Disciplines Most Dependent on EU Research and Innovation Funding
A new report jointly commissioned from the Technopolis Group by the UK’s four national academies reveals exactly where EU funding goes, what kind of activities it supports and what other investment it attracts.
Wiley Turns to Overleaf
John Wiley and Sons has announced a partnership with Overleaf, a cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool.
It's Time for Academics to Take Back Control of Research Journals
The evolution to a high-profit industry was never planned. Academics need to make the case for lower-cost journals.
100% Open Access Agreement with Cambridge University Press
The universities in the Netherlands and Cambridge University Press (CUP) have recently concluded a three-year agreement guaranteeing 100% open access to academic journals.
White House’s 2018 Budget Plan Would “Devastate” R&D
The double-digit percentage cuts President Donald Trump is proposing in his fiscal 2018 budget plan for science and technology programs would “devastate America’s science and technology enterprise” and weaken the nation’s economic growth.
Re-Envisioning a Future in Scholarly Communication
The scholarly process is ridden with single points of failures at all stages.
Former Ethiopian Health Minister Becomes First African Head of the WHO
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, praised for health reforms in his own country, takes the helm at a critical time.
A Stanford Scientist on the Biology of Human Evil
"Our species has problems with violence." —Biologist Robert Sapolsky
Publish Houses of Brick, Not Mansions of Straw
Papers need to include fewer claims and more proof to make the scientific literature more reliable.
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