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A New Drug In The Age Of Antibiotic Resistance
Two alarming figures from a report released last month by the U.K. government: By 2050, antibiotic resistance will cost the world a projected 10 million lives and $8 trillion each year...
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A Trip Through A 3D-Modeled Brain
Brains are, by design, incredibly dense. Whether a particular brain belongs to a human or a mouse, it features layer upon layer of matter that twists and turns and is almost incomprehensible in its complexity... Read More »
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AAAS Launches Open-Access Journal
Joining a herd of other scientific societies, today AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider) announced that it will launch the organization’s first online, fully open-access journal early next year. The new journal, called Science Advances, will give authors another outlet for papers that they are willing to pay to make immediately free to the public. Read More »
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Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology In History
The music business was killed by Napster; movie theaters were derailed by digital streaming; traditional magazines are in crisis mode--yet in this digital information wild west: academic journals and the publishers who own them are posting higher profits than nearly any sector of commerce...
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Academic Pirates Trade Science Articles
Those in the medical field may be illegally distributing academic journal articles, a recent report reveals. Read More »
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American Public Health Association Seeks To Improve And Rebrand Public Health
The American Public Health Association adopted 17 new policy statements at its annual meeting Nov. 2-6 in Boston, issuing ambitious recommendations to public health officials and also trying to rebrand the field of public health. Read More »
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Frontiers Is Featured In The Prestigious Nature Magazine
Frontiers, a community driven open-access publisher and research networking platform for scientists, is featured on the inside cover of this week's Nature, with endorsements from Nobel laureates and other leading researchers. [...] Read More »
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Gates Foundation Announces World’s Strongest Policy On Open Access Research
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the world’s strongest policy in support of open research and open data. If strictly enforced, it would prevent Gates-funded researchers from publishing in well-known journals such as Nature and Science...
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How Journals Like Nature, Cell And Science Are Damaging Science
The incentives offered by top journals distort science, just as big bonuses distort banking. I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. But it is disfigured by inappropriate incentives. The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best. Read More »
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Journals Unite For Reproducibility
Reproducibility, rigor, transparency, and independent verification are cornerstones of the scientific method. Of course, just because a result is reproducible does not necessarily make it right, and just because it is not reproducible does not necessarily make it wrong...
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Let’s Fight Big Pharma’s Crusade To Turn Eccentricity Into Illness
Nature takes the long view, mankind the short. Nature picks diversity; we pick standardization. We are homogenizing our crops and homogenizing our people. And Big Pharma seems intent on pursuing a parallel attempt to create its own brand of human monoculture. Read More »
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More on Open Access Publishing
Over the past 20 years, open-access publishing has become a major part of the scholarly landscape. It is now common in astronomy, maths and physics, where most researchers submit their work to the open-access repository arXiv.org before it is published, and is on the rise in the life sciences and other fields....Worldwide, more than 200 institutions and 80 research funders require their researchers' work to be open access, according to the Roarmap registry (roarmap.eprints.org). Read More »
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Nature Communications Goes Open Access
Nature Communications has announced it will go open access only from 20 October in a bid to show the world that quality papers do not have to be paid for...
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Next Steps In Reproducibility
In last week’s Nature and Science, the outcome of a meeting convened by NIH, Nature, and Science to discuss the issue of lack of reproducibility in the basic science research literature was published...
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Nobel Winner Declares Boycott Of Top Science Journals
Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific process Read More »
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