Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
The Chilling Impact of Censorship in Higher Education
Perhaps because college students are generally considered adults, and college and university campuses and classrooms have long been viewed as places to […]
Nominations Open for Downs Intellectual Freedom Award
The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks nominations for the 2024 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award. […]
An Investigation Showing How Fake Academic Papers Contaminate Scientific Literature
Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research, undermining […]
Data Sharing: Let’s Do More Than Just What’s FAIR
Research into pressing societal challenges increasingly depends on data coming from across different disciplines and research contexts. Gordon Blair argues that to create a research culture that makes the best use of available data, the 2016 FAIR principles need to be extended in ways that address issues that have emerged in the decade following their creation.
Lee Miller: Ethics, photography and ethnography
Kate Winslet’s biopic of Lee Miller, the pioneering woman war photographer, raises some interesting questions about the ethics of fieldwork and their […]
NSF Seeks Input on Research Ethics
In a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter released September 9, the NSF issued a ‘request for information,’ or RFI, from those interested in research ethics.
Let’s Return to Retractions Being Corrective, Not Punitive
The retraction of academic papers often functions as an indictment against a researcher’s reputation. Tim Kersjes argues that for retractions to function as an effective corrective to the scholarly record, they need shed this punitive reputation.
Uncovering ‘Sneaked References’ in an Article’s Metadata
The authors describe how by chance they learned how some actors have added extra references, invisible in the text but present in the articles’ metadata, when those unscrupulous actors submitted the articles to scientific databases.
