Transdisciplinary research: Pain or Gain?
Katrin Martens take on the struggles of transdisciplinary research.
The four faces of Twitter user’s activity around science.
Adrián A. Díaz-Faes analyses four dimensions of twitter metrics around science in a quantitative study.
How can we establish sustainable Open Innovation?
Marion Poetz on what it takes to foster innovation in Science and how to make it more interesting for companies and organizations.
Increasing value in biomedical research
Evgeny Bobrov on strategies and approaches to increase the value of biomedical research.
Active but not Activists: Research communication by Scientists for Future
Gregor Hagedorn, the initiator of Science for Future, explains how Scientists for Future uses a pro-active form of science communication to draw attention to global challenges.
Helping Scientists: Increasing visibility and impact of research
How to support scientists in increasing the visibility and impact of their research? Tamika Heiden shows insights from her work.
Who is in the position to proclaim a supervision conflict?
Prevention of power abuse and supervision conflicts should be considered as a matter of good scientific practice, argues the doctoral researchers network N² in their postition paper. Jonathan Stefanowski explains how this can be done.
How to ensure sustainable support for high-quality research?
Doing research and getting paid for it is fantastic, but how to do that sustainably? Kalle Korhonen tells you how to maintain the interest of research funders.
Reconciling research for the common good
Martin Kowarsch’s take on the difficulties of global scientific assessments.
Are International Research Partnerships a Pipe Dream?
Ajoy Datta about the difficulty of achieving genuine international research partnerships.
Science for Cities: Overcoming Borders
Michele Acuto about designing global networks of scientific policy advice and how to make them work.
Translating Science to our Global Communities
Jyoti Mishra explains how to transform knowledge to help others in a global setting.
Distributed Organisations for Collaborative Research
Martin Etzrodt’s take on the need of distributed organisations in collaborative research.
The dubious practice of university rankings
Ellen Hazelkorn takes a look at the accuracy of university rankings from an international perspective.
Towards the Open Natural History Museum
Maike Weisspflug about the progress of Open Science at the Natural History Museum of Berlin.
Doing Open Innovation in research: A practical example
Benjamin Missbach about the implementation of Open Innovation Practices at the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft.
Counting is not enough
Janet Hering’s take on reconnecting academic research with societal needs.
A groundbreaking DEAL?
Marcel Knöchelmann takes a look on the DEAL-Wiley Agreement, details of the contract reveal that this new big deal may come at a high cost.
It’s time to update our understanding of scientific impact
In this article we argue that a debate is urgently needed to redefine what constitutes scientific impact in light of open scholarship.
Why we need a public infrastructure for data on open access
Mikael Laakso explains the necessity of building up a public infrastructure for open access, it’s benefits and the obstacles on the way.
Increasing visibility of African research
In this interview, Heather Ford (Senior Lecturer at UNSW) talks about chances and pitfalls of making African research more visible.
Open Science in Africa
Justin Ahinon and Jo Havemann (both founders of AfricArXiv) talk in this article about the development of Open Science Services in Africa, initiatives, the current situation and chances in the future.
In future, papers will not be paywalled
Plinio Casarotto takes a look at the future of publishing.
Can digital technologies enable good scientific practices?
Wanda Jones explains how to promote good scientific practices and what universities could do to integrate them into their curricula.
Smart Libraries
Buzz word or tautology?