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Is RCUK's Open-Access Cash A 'Reckless' Road To Ruin?
Senior scientists critical of allocation rules and assumptions behind £100m grant for 'gold' fees, writes Paul Jump Read More »
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John Bohannon’s Peer-Review Sting Against Science
An extraordinary study has come to light today, showing just how shoddy peer-review standards are at some journals. 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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Kickstarting Your Career: Crowdfunding For Scientific Research
Popularized by such sites as Kickstarter, crowdfunding has become a main source of financial support for entrepreneurs with ideas ranging from clothing lines to social media. Unfortunately, Kickstarter prohibits projects for health and medicine, making the site useless for academic researchers. To fill this gap, Petridish, iAMscientist and MedStartr have come online in the past 6 months...
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Knowledge is Power: Sharing Information Can Accelerate Global Health Impact
...Given the Gates Foundation’s focus on improving health for the world’s poorest people, we put a high priority not only on the research necessary to deliver the next important drug or vaccine, but also on the collection and sharing of data so other scientists and health experts can benefit from this knowledge...
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Largest Cancer Gene Database Made Public
National Cancer Institute scientists have released the largest-ever database of cancer-related genetic variations, providing researchers the most comprehensive way so far to figure out how to target treatments for the disease. Read More »
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Latest ECRI Institute Report Names Top 10 Hospital Technology Issues
The Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing applied scientific research to enable improvement of patient care. The organization is a designated Evidence-Based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and listed as a federal Patient Safety Organization by HHS... Read More »
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Latin American Research Publications Rising Fast
Latin American scientists are producing more scientific papers and having those papers cited more widely, according to a recent study. Read More »
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Leveraging Appification To Spur R&D Innovation
In my last entry, I posited that technology should be a barrier to “appifying” R&D workflows. So why haven’t apps taken off so far in R&D? I’d argue that it comes down to the paradigm shift that mobile technology has created in computing. Read More »
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Life After Elsevier: Making Open Access to Scientific Knowledge a Reality
Academic publishing is in the midst of an upheaval. The internet has transformed the ability to disseminate knowledge, a capacity once exclusive to publishers. Despite this, the exorbitant profit margins of academic publishers – who often do not pay their authors, editors and reviewers – continue to grow unchecked while library budgets shrink as a percentage of university spending. Read More »
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Linux Foundation And OpenBEL Collaboration Has Potential To Advance Science
A new Linux Foundation Collaborative Project has the potential to advance science through the use of open source software. Read More »
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Madeleine Ball: An Inspiration In Open Medicine And Free Software
Madeleine Ball is an inspiration to anyone who thinks individuals should control the software and medical information that define our lives. I’m happy to honor her for this year’s Ada Lovelace Day, when we share the stories of women in science, technology, engineering, and math that inspire us. Read More »
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Mailman School Adopts An Open Access Policy For Its Published Research
The Mailman School of Public Health is joining a growing movement among universities and research institutions to make scholarly research available free to the public online. The Mailman School is the first school at the university and one of the first of U.S. schools of public health to adopt an open access resolution... Read More »
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Making Research Findings Free – Commission’s Decision
Open access to research publications, so-called “open access” is regarded vital for reaching innovative progress in the EU. Open access is fundamental to improving knowledge circulation and to facilitate innovation in Europe. Therefore, open access will be mandatory for all scientific publications produced with funding from Horizon 2020, as well as for EU's Research & Innovation research funded during 2014-20. Read More »
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MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses: Jumping On The Bandwidth
The idea of massive open online courses [MOOC] is becoming increasingly popular. Technology can't be stopped, but educators must assure that these courses meet academic standards Read More »
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