While government-funded projects such as the Human Genome Project have been open about sharing their data, McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) has become the first scientific…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 25, 2016
Hosted and co-organised by the Japan Science and Technology Agency under the theme “Making data sharing work in the era of Open Science” the 7th Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary meeting will be…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 25, 2016
While the advocates of open science stress on transparency and accessibility, there is a growing sentiment among some scientific folk about the need for nondisclosure of certain details in publishing…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 21, 2016
In a tragic incident, a clinical trial of an experimental drug being conducted in France went wrong, causing the death of one volunteer and neurological complications in five others. Bial, a…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 20, 2016
A fierce legal battle has ensued between two research groups over the patenting rights of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique. CRISPR, short for ‘clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 15, 2016
While the phenomenon of retraction has received a lot of attention from the scientific community, what has not received enough eyeballs are retraction notices. Most journals do not provide the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 7, 2016
On December 30, the US-based International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), announced that the claims of discovery of elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 were verified and that they would now…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 6, 2016
ORCID (Open Research and Contributor Identifier), a non-profit, community-based initiative aimed at creating unique identifiers for researchers, conducted a survey to understand researchers’…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 29, 2015
Nine Italian researchers and a public official, who were working to control the spread of a deadly bacterium that kills olive trees, have been accused of worsening the transmission of the pathogen…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 23, 2015
In December 2014, Nature Publishing Group had launched a content sharing initiative as a trial for one year using ReadCube. NPG has announced the success of the initiative and its long-term use.
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 21, 2015