Wikipedia aims to be an encyclopedia for everyone, but its core version is too difficult for most readers, and even its Simple English offshoot falls short of its readability goals.
A new study ties problems in abstracts to subsequent exaggerations in the media — but it’s not the big journals that are the major sources.
The author recounts an experience in which one of his blog posts. He was saved when an Internet community rode to his rescue.
When someone is treated unfairly — through pay discrimination — it’s so obvious, even a primate knows it.
With changes in the scholarly communications world, many old questions for the library are unsettled once again, and many news ones arise. In this first part of a two-part post, we’ll ask the questions.
In addition to what publishers do directly for authors and readers, they foster many collaborative and philanthropic efforts around the world.
“Waste” is hard to define, and therefore hard to eliminate. And it’s not just a print phenomenon. Perhaps we need more than the minimum because the world is unpredictable, our abilities are finite and fleeting, and intellectual work is fairly extravagant.
Good advice is hard to come by. Here’s some of the best we’ve gotten over the years.
In space, nobody can hear you litigate.
The open nature of email addresses on journal sites may be feeding the email harvesting machine for academic emails. Worse, it may also be exposing these for potentially fraudulent activity.
eLife is beginning to accept papers, but is it proper for them to promote papers they’ve accepted without having published the final versions? What will their approach be to media embargoes?
A new paper finds unexpected disturbances around p-value ranges approaching 0.05. Is there something going on beyond mere science?
A new initiative seeks to solve the reproducibility problem in science, but instead seems to be creating more of a drag on research funds, ignoring the incentives of scientists, and raising barriers to its very utilization.
The potential higher education funding bubble may be more likely to burst, with the LIBOR scandal revealing another weakness in the system, trends in admissions and discounting showing the effects of the recession, and American politics locked up in partisan nonsense.
What once appeared to be a lopsided ruling has, in its final form, turned into something much more definitive.