Springer Nature’s Data Access Innovations
Springer Nature has been busy finding new ways to serve the research community. Close on the heels of the release of SharedIt and Recommended they have now pioneered SciGraph.…
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ResearchGate Gets Funding from Gates and Wellcome Trust
ResearchGate is an academic social network for scientists. It was built on the notion that collaborating with colleagues around the world should not be a difficult task. In order…
Artificial Intelligence and Nano: The Perfect Match
The field of nanotechnology, much like the rest of scientific research, has seen an exponential increase in the number of research papers available. Keeping up to date with the…
World Pi Day!
Pi is an irrational number having a value of 3.14159 and is a symbolic representation of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. This number was devised by the Greek…
Scientometrics Pioneer Dr. Eugene Garfield Passes Away
Dr. Eugene Garfield started out as a chemist before learning that people were being employed in the field of literature searching. At the time, researchers were not overly…
March for Science: Should Scientists Become Activists?
Under most circumstances, scientists have chosen to stay out of the political arena choosing to let the data speak for themselves. However, some of the plans of the Trump…
Figshare and Springer Nature Bring Supplementary Data to Life
It has been said that the supplementary section of a paper is where data goes to die. This information is not with the main paper, isn’t subject to peer review, and tends to not…
Journal of Alternative Facts: It’s About Time!
Do we really want to wade through endless pages of scientific data compiled by researchers over several years, even decades, to determine whether a chemical compound in food is…
Recommended: A Lifeline for Researchers
The research community relies on access to information in order to thrive. This is part of the reason behind the push towards open access. However, there is no shortage of academic…
A New Day for Open Access
This is a follow-up post to our feature article on the Gates Foundation accelerating open access
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been a major funder of academic…
The Elsevier Impasse
This is a follow-up post to our feature article on the boycott of Elsevier journals by German Institutions.
A German consortium, Projekt DEAL, had entered into negotiations…
Can Artificial Intelligence Fix Peer Review?
Artificial intelligence (AI) simply means a computer program that can mimic functions of the human brain, such as solving math problems. We use these programs every day to perform…