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Figshare is an online repository for research data and allows data to be both discoverable and citable. Recently, Figshare has launched a new tool in collaboration with Springer…

New York, USA: Ulatus, the sister company of Enago and one of the leading translation service providers worldwide, launched its Website Localization solution to help global…

Scientific publishers who rely on a subscription-based business model may be particularly interested in the results of a survey released recently by Kudos. By collaborating with…

The U.S. government has been without a budget for 2017 since the beginning of this fiscal year (October 2016), however, on April 30, 2017, Congress finally reached a spending…

With a shrinking youth population in Taiwan, universities there now have to identify strategies to preserve their academic environment. For decades, Taiwan has led a successful…

Scientific publisher Wiley has recently launched Plant Direct and Health Science Reports, both of which are open access journals. Plant Direct is a community journal that…

When the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) officially launched Open Access Week in 2008, it envisioned a world where research and its implications were…

It can be quite difficult to organize a prepublication independent replication study to test if the effect that you detected is real. This is just one of the problems that…

The aim of a scientific research article is to promote a viable thesis supported by quality data. Within the article, there is an inextricable link between the text and the data.…

Scientists and science advocates from all over the world met on April 22 to support research and evidence-based policymaking. For many of them, the March for Science—which was…

It is widely accepted that receiving funding from an organization may come with pressure to publish results that are favorable to the funder. Marion Nestle found that 156 of 168…

Israel and South Korea have been very close since 2012 in terms of the percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) invested in Research and Development (R&D). In 2015, the…