China - Not The US - Is Now The Global Leader In Science & Tech
The United States and its Western neighbors are gradually losing ground to China in the race to develop advanced technologies and attract top talent.
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Our Bauhaus Coronavirus Cover
The recent nature issue publishes findings from leading researchers on an urgent quest for a vaccine against SARS-Cov-2. Here ist how the cover image was created, drawing on aspects of Bauhaus artist Paul Klee’s famous notebooks to reimagine the quest for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
The Next Generation Discovery Citation Indexes : A Review of the Landscape in 2020
It's Time to Eliminate Patents in Universities
With a poor return of value, and a huge overhead for research, patents are a bad investment for the academy, this article argues.
Why Openly Available Abstracts Are Important
The value of open and interoperable metadata of scientific articles is increasingly being recognized, as demonstrated by the work of several organizations, funding agencies, and initiatives.
Enabling Foundational Tools for Scientific Discovery
23 New Grants Support Essential Open Source Tools in Biomedicine.
An Opportunity to Do Better, Together
Data sharing has not changed, but the pandemic highlights not only how important data sharing is (like other crises have, for instance, the climate crisis) but how it spotlights larger issues in our data sharing social and technical infrastructure.
A Call to Honesty in Pandemic Modeling
No model whose purpose is to study the overall benefits of mitigations should end at a time-point before a steady-state is reached.
When Science Needs Self-Correcting
Admitting scientific errors is hard. It's also important.
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time
Devoted to Discovery: Seven Women Scientists Who Have Shaped Our World
Women have made significant contributions to the field of science, but often their invaluable advances have been minimized or ignored.
Strengthening the Open Science Ecosystem Through Preprints
Preprints, or versions of manuscripts posted online by authors ahead of peer review, are seeing a strong increase in adoption and recognition among many communities in the biomedical sciences.
Learned Societies Turn Against Scholarship and Join Publishers for Profit
In a recent letter to the White House, a group of corporate publishers and scholarly organizations implore the president to leave intact…
Tackling the Global Misinformation Crisis One Reference, One Librarian at a Time
Scientists "Ask Not"
It's been almost 60 years since President Kennedy called on Americans to enter public service. Scientists are heeding that call.
Rejected Article Tracking with the CrossRef API
Nothing burdens the heart of a journal editor more than rejecting an article. Partly, this is because you know you're giving someone…
The Landscape of Open Data Policies
Open Access (OA) publishing has a long history, going back to the early 1990s, and was born with the explicit intention of improving…
Ensure Sustainable Researcher Careers!
MCAA and Eurodoc call on research institutions, funding bodies and governments to ensure sustainable researcher careers in a joint declaration.
Are We Being Wilfully Blind About the Transformation That's Needed in Scholarly Publishing?
Are We Being Wilfully Blind About the Transformation That's Needed in Scholarly Publishing?
The recent fashion for “transformative” Read-and-Publish agreements - are they really what’s needed to deliver affordable open access? An opinion piece.
Broken Scientific Publishing Models and Fee Structures
The world's first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society began publishing in 1665, and it…
Essential Open Source Software for Science
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will soon invite applications for open source software projects that are essential to biomedical research. Applicants can request funding between $50k and $250k for one year.
The Statistics Skirmishes
"Today I speak to you of war. A war that has pitted statistician against statistician for nearly 100 years. A mathematical conflict that has recently come to the attention of the ‘normal’ people."
Posting a Preprint Made Our Paper Better
A tale of preprints, publications, and (kind of) open peer review.
Scite: Making Science More Reliable
scite is a platform that allows anyone to see if a scientific report has been supported or contradicted by subsequent work. Its aim is to make it easier to tell what is fact and what is not.
Making Reproducibility Reproducible
Modern data science requires reproducible and functional work environments, not just ephemeral re-execution for validation.
Making Research Open and Reproducible: An Early Career Researcher's Perspective
Making Research Open and Reproducible: An Early Career Researcher's Perspective
As an early career researcher (ECR), making the transition from the “traditional” way of doing science into methods that are more open, reproducible, and replicable can be a daunting prospect. We know something needs to change about our workflow, but where do we start?
What Does Openness Mean to You?
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes from Mozilla Open Leaders offers some answers.
Combating Plagiarism: Apograf + Unicheck
One of the latest creations to emerge from the Research Institute's lab, Apograf is an interactive platform that houses an extensive collection of scientific publications and is building a mechanism for incentivising peer review.
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