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Researchers are at the very heart of the EOSC. So, what do our researchers say one year after the launch of the initiative? How do they think will they benefit from the EOSC? What are and what can be their roles? Let's see what physicist Toma Susi has to say.
Science chats with two experts about what future paleontologists-or perhaps even visiting aliens-might find.
If you're working on a research project in biology, you'll need citations in the life sciences. But what is life science? Here's a guide for researchers.
Approaches for assessing the costs and benefits of publishing scientific data in various repositories are evaluated. The article identifies metrics useful for the reporting of their data services.
Fifty percent of the open access journals listed in DOAJ in 2019 are published in Europe, and the United Kingdom is the biggest publisher of OA journals in DOAJ.
Artificial intelligence used to carry out automated, targeted hacking is set to be one of the major threats to look out for in 2020, according to a cybersecurity expert.
Sharing your work by self-archiving: encouragement from the Journal of the Medical Library Association
Letters blast rumored shift to immediate open access for taxpayer-funded studies
Articles in high-impact journals are by definition more highly cited on average. But are they cited more often because the articles are somehow "better"? Or are they cited more often simply because they appeared in a high-impact journal?
An opportunity for journals and publishers to take the bold step of changing their business model?
How will climate change shape the Earth's surface? What are the long-term health effects of food additives? How can online tools change political advocacy and what does this mean for democracy? These are just some of the questions that researchers from around Europe have proposed to explore, and will now be able to, thanks to newly-awarded EU funding.
The Psychological Science Accelerator isn't the only project seeking to address the reproducibility problem. But the accelerator is unique in two ways. First, collaborators plan to continue to work on large-scale efforts indefinitely. And second, the accelerator isn't necessarily limited to replication studies, opening it to novel and exploratory work.
Academics can excel in many areas, but thus far they have primarily been assessed based on research achievements. From now on, the public knowledge institutions and research funders want to consider academics' knowledge and expertise more broadly in determining career policy and grant requirements.
Researchers of color are particularly vulnerable to "unprofessional" comments.
It's called Digid8 and will try to use your genes to make sure you never meet the wrong person.
We explore the components that can support reproducibility by making research more easily verifiable: data, code, and protocols.
A study in mice suggests serotonin release underlies the drug's prosocial effects while dopamine mediates the rewarding properties that drive its potential for abuse.
It's not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access to the 'real' facts - and now we can't stop fighting about it.
He Jiankui's original research, published for the first time, could have failed, scientists say.
In a context where citizens struggle to distinguish facts from fabricated claims online, scientists, policymakers and media face similar dilemmas.
Around 200 environmental campaigners are barred from climate talks after Greta Thunberg speaks.
Congress is set to approve a major defense bill that would establish two new high-level bodies aimed at preventing foreign governments from unfairly exploiting the U.S.
An explanation of the mandatory provision in the new Copyright Directive that ensures that faithful reproductions of public domain works of visual art cannot be subject to exclusive rights.
An image of three perpetually bouncing droplets, whose behaviour embodies a key theory in quantum physics, has won first place in the Royal Society Publishing photography competition. The award celebrates science and its beauty as portrayed through photography
Grant and funding withdrawals should be considered in cases of sexual harrassment, say researchers.
ASAPbio and EMBO Press have launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts in the life sciences before they are submitted to a journal.
Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild.
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