Science Gets a Boost in U.S. Budget Deal
The U.S. government has been without a budget for 2017 since the beginning of this fiscal year (October 2016), however, on April 30, 2017, Congress finally reached a spending…
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Shifting Population Affects Taiwanese Universities
With a shrinking youth population in Taiwan, universities there now have to identify strategies to preserve their academic environment. For decades, Taiwan has led a successful…
Wiley Publishing Takes Open Access a Step Further
Scientific publisher Wiley has recently launched Plant Direct and Health Science Reports, both of which are open access journals. Plant Direct is a community journal that…
Open Access Week 2017 Theme Revealed
When the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) officially launched Open Access Week in 2008, it envisioned a world where research and its implications were…
Understanding Collaborative Tools: An Interview With PaperHive
In the last few years, there has been an increase in the number of collaborative publishing tools that are available for researchers. Each of these tools have their own unique…
StudySwap: Craigslist for Researchers?
It can be quite difficult to organize a prepublication independent replication study to test if the effect that you detected is real. This is just one of the problems that…
The Scholix Initiative: Advancing Data-Literature Linking Technology
The aim of a scientific research article is to promote a viable thesis supported by quality data. Within the article, there is an inextricable link between the text and the data.…
March for Science Unites Scientists in 600 Cities Globally
Scientists and science advocates from all over the world met on April 22 to support research and evidence-based policymaking. For many of them, the March for Science—which was…
New PubMed Integration Supports Scientific Integrity
It is widely accepted that receiving funding from an organization may come with pressure to publish results that are favorable to the funder. Marion Nestle found that 156 of 168…
Israel Edges Out South Korea to Become Global Leader in Research and Development
Israel and South Korea have been very close since 2012 in terms of the percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) invested in Research and Development (R&D). In 2015, the…
Fake Peer Review Leads to Massive Retractions
The cancer journal, Tumor Biology, has uncovered 107 papers that had undergone a fake peer review process and retracted all of them. This retraction is the largest yet by a single…
PLOS Partners With Protocols.io—Methods Reimagined
Publication is a critical part of the academic research life cycle. A typical research paper has a section for materials and methods. However, considering the word and style limits…