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Researchers Debate Whether Journals Should Publish Signed Peer Reviews
Signed reviews could encourage reviewers to produce more careful evaluations, and make fewer gratuitously negative comments. Publicly identifying and crediting reviewers for their work could help them win tenure and promotions.
Five Women Scientists in Developing Countries Win 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards
Black STEM Employees Perceive a Range of Race-Related Slights and Inequities at Work
Roughly six-in-ten black STEM workers say they have experienced any of eight specific forms of racial or ethnic discrimination at work.
Swiss National Science Foundation Joins OpenAPC
The dataset provided by the SNSF contains publication fees for 302 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 514'522 EUR and the average fee is 1'704 EUR.
Tech’s Ethical ‘Dark Side’: Harvard, Stanford and Others Want to Address It
Schools that helped produce some of Silicon Valley's most prominent leaders are hustling to bring a more medicine-like morality to computer science.
Delhi Declaration on Open Access
This declaration was drafted by a group comprising of researchers and professionals working for opening up access to research outputs for public good in India.
No Science Minister, and It's Unclear Where Science Fits in Australia
Right now, for the second time since 1931, there is no minister directly responsible for science in Australia.
Researchers Debate Whether Journals Should Publish Signed Peer Reviews
HHMI meeting examines ways to improve manuscript vetting: little consensus on whether reviewers should have to publicly sign their critiques, which traditionally are accessible only to editors and authors.
Few UK Universities Have Adopted Rules Against Impact-Factor Abuse
Institutions have made little progress against the misuse of research metrics when hiring and promoting academics.
China's Basic Science Research Funding Doubles in 5 Years
The percentage of funding for basic science R&D in the central government's total financial input in science and technology has reached the level of developed countries, according to an official overseeing resource allocation and management at the ministry.
£54 Million Funding to Transform Health Through Data Science
Birmingham Health Partners will lead one of six new sites across the UK created to address challenging healthcare issues through use of data science, funded by £30 million from Health Data Research UK.
Boost for Blockchain Research as EU Increases Funding Four-Fold
Boost for Blockchain Research as EU Increases Funding Four-Fold
Spending on research projects on blockchain technologies by the European Union is to jump after it announced plans to increase funding from €83 million to as much as €340 million by 2020.
Academic Popularity Contests
The Journal of Vibroengineering in December retracted three papers after becoming suspicious that one of the authors had convinced other researchers to cite his work.
US Science Agency Will Require Universities to Report Sexual Harassment
US Science Agency Will Require Universities to Report Sexual Harassment
The National Science Foundation says institutions it supports must disclose when researchers are found to have violated policies or are put on leave pending investigation.
Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science Collaborate on Annotation
Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science Collaborate on Annotation
To enable peer feedback, collaboration and transparency in scientific research practices, Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science (COS) are announcing a new partnership to bring open annotation to Open Science Framework (OSF) Preprints and the 17 community preprint servers hosted on OSF.
EU on Verge of Directly Funding Universities
Direct funding of regional university networks is being talked about by the EC and national governments. Another option would be rewarding universities according to how much they contribute to local innovation - using an assessment similar to the UK’s REF. EU support for universities is currently channelled only to specific projects, with no institutional discretion.
Title Length
A paper documenting strong and robust negative correlations between the length of the title of an economics article and different measures of scientific quality.
PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Enter Agreement to Enable Preprint Posting on bioRxiv
PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Enter Agreement to Enable Preprint Posting on bioRxiv
In order to better serve authors, an agreement between the two organizations outlines broader use of bioRxiv for preprints of papers submitted to PLOS journals.
When a Field's Reputation Precedes It
Study finds that a given discipline's perceived gender bias plays the biggest role in whether women choose to major in it.
Why Women’s Voices Are Scarce in Economics
For decades, the number of women studying economics seemed to be increasing, easing the persistent scarcity of professional female economists in the United States. But that progress has stalled.
Who Is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Why Google is celebrating the pioneer of medical and feminist history.
A Gender Discrimination Case at the Legendary Salk Institute
Three women scientists at the storied Salk Institute reveal decades of gender discrimination.
FinELib and Elsevier Reach Agreement for Subscription Access
The FinELib consortium and Elsevier today signed an agreement making Elsevier’s globally published research articles available to Finnish academic institutions, while providing Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose.
CoS Launches New Preprint Services Arabixiv and Frenxiv
The Center for Open Science (COS) has launched two new preprint services to provide free, open access, open source archives for the Arab and French research communities.