Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
How Does False Information Spread Online?
There’s lots and lots (and lots) of information pumping through the internet. This, argues Farida Vis, makes it doubly important to verify what’s out there and then determine how to deal with the patently false.
Nothing Certain But Death and Taxes…
It’s unavoidable – tax day comes each year. As a reward and to celebrate the day “after,” we are pleased to offer an interdisciplinary collection […]
Vote Yes (With Caveats!) for the Destruction of Knowledge
Scholarly knowledge is under threat, and that’s both good and dire, argued panelists at a recent discussion in Vienna.
Tamiflu and the Ethics of the British Medical Journal
No one expected Tamiflu to be a wonder drug, but indications are that it’s moderately useful in fighting a serious public health threat. But that message was lost last week in an ill-starred rush to beat up on ‘wicked’ Big Pharma, argues Robert Dingwall.
Can Encouragement from Parents Impact Children’s Interests in Math?
In 2009, President Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign, which called for a nationwide push to motivate students to reach a […]
Penny Wise: Why Would Anyone Gut Australia’s Science Agency?
Proposals circulating to cut as much as a fifth of the budget from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation are a quick way to inflict long-term pain in Australia’s research community.
Look Up ‘Open Access Help’ in the University Library
Social Science Space reported last week how–according to one survey drawn from the STEM fields–Canadian researchers like the principle of open access […]
The Perils of Megajournals–and How to Avoid Them
You like the idea of “megajournals”–online-only, open access journals that cover many subjects and publish content based only on whether it is […]
