Research Reading Roundup: Stanford’s Obfuscation Index, the rise of...
This week we added a few extra links to our reading list of interesting things happening in science and academia. Here they are: Researchers at Stanford developed an “obfuscation index” to examine how...
View ArticleResearch Reading Roundup: Thank you and the last links of 2015
Before we share our last list of links for 2015, we’d like to thank Cameron Neylon, Liz Silva and Tracy Teal for being guests on the show, as well as, everyone who listened to PLOScast this year. We...
View ArticleResearch Roundup: EU’s Open Science action plan, parachute research and more
This week, in research news: During the recent Open Science Conference in Amsterdam, the EU came up with “an action plan that contains specific objectives and action points to speed the transition to...
View ArticleResearch Roundup: DOAJ’s clean sweep, A.I. in the classroom and more
This week in science, academia and scientific publishing: The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) removed approximately 3,300 journals from its site. The clean sweep affected journals that failed...
View ArticleInstitutional Repositories and the Research Lifecycle: An interview featuring...
It’s an exciting time for digital scholarship. Libraries are at the forefront of conversations about helping researchers meet their scholarly publishing needs. Institutional repositories, such as...
View ArticleAccessing Academic Sources on Wikipedia: An interview featuring Jake Orlowitz
Wikipedia is the seventh most visited website on the Internet and the largest encyclopedia in existence. With so many people referencing and contributing to Wikipedia every day, it’s important that...
View ArticleWhy Open Research: An interview featuring Erin McKiernan
Erin McKiernan, professor at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), pledged to only publish in Open Access journals, demonstrating that it’s possible to have a thriving research career...
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