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Fields Medal-winning Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers and a team of colleagues have recently launched a new editor-owned Open Access (OA) journal for mathematics.
High level European policy meeting on funding research data to support open innovation, 6 April 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Once again, reproducibility is in the news. Most recently we hear that irreproducibility is irreproducible and thus everything is actually fine...
Last week my friend Andy Kern (a population geneticist at Rutgers) went on a bit of a bender on Twitter prompted by his discovery of PLOS’s IRS Form 990 – the annual required financial filing of non-profit corporations in the United States.
Benefits and costs to the authors of posting preprints as a function of the time of posting.
Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change
A collection of 150 personal stories from scientists who are combining a career in research with their roles as parents and carers, each in their own way.
Female first authorship has increased since 1994 but plateaued from 2009 to 2014
Johns Hopkins and MedImmune team up to train scientists
This week’s budget contained the usual announcements about new research facilities. But behind the welcome news, concerns continue to mount
At ScienceOpen, there’s nothing more we like than good news for open science! That’s why we’re happy this week to see ORCID announcing a new partnership with the DFG, the German R…
The problem with p-values.
Many in the scientific community praise preprints as a means of overcoming the high costs and lengthy peer review process of elite journals, which some argue thwart progress.
Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling?
Survey finds that 24% of research projects get new titles, up from 10% in 2012
Inspiration from influential European academics on Open Access & what still needs to be done
Countries with weak national research systems were always going to struggle to win ERC grants.
An essay by the Pulitzer-prizewinning science journalist Deborah Blum.
There are three vectors of failure that can be addressed by better technology: time, cost, and the quality of the output itself.
Scientists are designing cells that can manufacture drugs, food and materials and even act as diagnostic biosensors.
John Ioannidis is perhaps best known for a 2005 paper “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” One of the most highly cited researchers in the world, Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford, has built a career in the field of meta-research.
It is now easier to obtain a clear and transparent overview of the thousands of scientific research projects funded by the SNSF. Its P3 database has been redesigned to display information interactively.
Crises of infectious diseases are becoming more common. The world should be better prepared
Computers are getting better and better at the jobs that previously made sense for researchers to outsource to citizen scientists. But don't worry: there's still a role for people in these projects.
A new study shows that p-values have become more popular — and more meaningless — over time.
In this massively data rich world, the equilibrium between information and knowledge has increasingly shifted from knowledge toward information. Advanced text and data mining (TDM) is not yet ubiquitous and even if it were, not all content is structured enough to leverage TDM potential. In developing the supercomputer Watson with the ability to process, analyze and extract information from natural language such as PLOS article text, IBM is beginning to shift the equilibrium back to knowledge. Understanding Relationships PLOS and IBM Watson are collaborating to bring quality Open Access biomedical literature to healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators, and to do so in a way that provides full article content and context including PubMed citation information from the National Library of Medicine. The collaboration is “not just about PLOS or Open Access,” says PLOS Chief Technology Officer CJ Rayhill, “it’s about improved healthcare through immediate access to relevant clinical,
