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Proposing a model for thinking about the interactions of rigor, cogency, accessibility, significance, openness, and impact in scholarly quality.
Open Access India partners with the Center for Open Science to launch IndiaRxiv on the eve of India’s 73rd Independence Day as the country joins the global march for open science.
New Jersey may seem an unlikely place to measure climate change, but it is one of the fastest-warming states in the nation. Its average temperature has climbed by close to 2 degrees Celsius since 1895 — double the average for the Lower 48 states.
Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch.
Teach people to think critically about claims and comparisons - they will make better decisions.
A million species are threatened worldwide. This is how Trump responds.
Experimental Ebola treatments carried out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have shown strong signs of being able to save patients’ lives.
Congo results show good survival rates for patients treated quickly with antibodies.
A study of the use of curricula vitae for competitive funding decisions in science suggests that bibliographic categories such as authorship of publications or performance metrics may themselves come to be problematized and reshaped in the process.
A comprehensive analysis of longitudinal gender discrepancies in performance through a bibliometric analysis of academic careers.
Identification and synthetisation of studies that examine grant peer review criteria in an empirical and inductive manner.
A handful of universities are trying to help more black and Hispanic students get into and through graduate school, where they enroll in disproportionately low numbers. This is a problem not only for the students, but for the schools themselves and for employers who need workers with graduate educations.
OpenCon works to make research & education more open and equitable.
Scholars globally are feeling the heat from politicians. They should take inspiration from scientists in the 1950s who raised the alarm over nuclear weapons.
Jess Wade and Maryam Zaringhalam discuss the implications of poor diversity in physics - and what can be done to create a level playing field in the subject
Many authors start with the figures when writing a paper, but it is easier to tell a good story if you start with the Introduction and Results, and leave the figures to later.
The failure to report the issue has not put patients at risk, the F.D.A. said, but the drugmaker could face criminal and civil penalties.
The Beresheet lunar lander carried thousands of books, DNA samples, and a few thousand water bears to the moon. But did any of it survive the crash?
Richard Lynn A former emeritus professor who has been called "one of the most unapologetic and raw 'scientific' racists operating today" has had one of his papers subjected to an expression of concern.
As flaws in the peer review process are highlighted and calls for reform become more frequent, it may be tempting for some to denigrate and dismiss the contributions of the reviewers themselves.
How far has the United Kingdom higher education (UK HE) sector progressed towards open access (OA) availability of the scholarly literature it requires to support courses of study?
The report on global land use and agriculture from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon.
Tensions are rising as Jair Bolsonaro’s administration questions the work of government scientists and institutes debilitating cuts to research funding.
It may not make headlines, but there’s a lot of evidence that it’s happening in the chilling environment the Trump administration has created.
Since 2018, open access has also gained momentum with regards to monographs, now that a significant proportion of journal articles is already available in open access.
The future of the academic monograph has been questioned for over two decades. At the heart of this 'monograph crisis' has been a publishing industry centred on the print publication of monographs.
Publications in predatory journals have already infiltrated citation databases such as PubMed and Scopus. Researchers, academic institutions, journals, publishers and research funders will need additional strategies to prevent the further spread of predatory publications.
A fact check from UC’s negotiating team.
