The American Chemical Society (ACS) announced on 10 August that plans to start a preprint server exclusively for chemistry papers.
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 12, 2016
Journal rejection is considered a natural part of the publication process. However, top-tier journals are more inclined toward rejecting a paper than accepting it, which Neil Herndon, the editor-in-…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 10, 2016
On 4 August, the US federal agency National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would lift the funding moratorium that it had imposed on HIH-funded research, prohibiting researchers from…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 5, 2016
What are some of the biggest concerns facing science? A recently conducted survey by one of the leading news websites Vox involving 270 researchers provides answers to this question and serves as a…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 29, 2016
The European Research Council has announced that it will begin monitoring the economic and social outcomes of the research projects that it has commissioned.
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 29, 2016
Peer review is regarded as one of the mainstays of academic publishing. It is conceivably the most trusted method to weed out invalid and suspicious research and improve the quality of published…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 26, 2016
The Netherlands’ largest research funding agency, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), has announced the launch of a €3 million grants programme devoted to replication studies…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 22, 2016
Irreproducibility is one the most widely discussed topics in the scholarly circles. While it is common knowledge that there is a crisis of reproducibility, finding a way around it has proved to be…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 15, 2016
On July 10, Thomson Reuters announced plans to sell its intellectual property and science business to private-equity funds affiliated with Onex Corporation and Baring Private
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 12, 2016
The German government has signed an agreement to fund 1000 new tenure-track positions in an attempt to improve the job situation in the country. This announcement, made on June 16 by President Angela…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 8, 2016