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Preprints: how do you decide their credibility? Take part in a...

The Center for Open Science is seeking graduate students, post docs, researchers and academic faculty to participate in a survey to investigate the factors...

PLOS ONE call for papers on Targeted Anticancer Therapies and Precision...

The 'unmet need' An estimated 9.6 million people died from cancer in 2018, making it the second-leading cause of death worldwide. Although advances in cancer...
Plan S

Plan S for Open Access: last chance to give feedback

We wrote last year about cOAlition S, the coalition formed by research funders from several European countries, committed to making published research publicly available. The key...

Retraction Watch launches public retraction database

You've probably heard of Retraction Watch, the influential research integrity blog that reports on the retraction of scientific papers, aiming to increase transparency in...
Cancer Researcher EACR Science Communication Prize

The Journey to Publication: WINNER of The Cancer Researcher-EACR Science Communication...

We invited cancer researchers at all levels to write a blog post about working in cancer research for The Cancer Researcher-EACR Science Communication Prize 2018....
cOAlitionS

cOAlition S: the tipping point for European Open Access?

We all know that many funding organisations are committed to Open Access publishing. But could a new coalition, cOAlition S, finally make it a reality? 11...
research ethics

News Summary: ethical reporting of research, indexing preprints, rare cancers

Does a 'publish or perish' ethos affect the ethical reporting of research? Several publications in recent years have suggested that published scientific findings can be...
scooped research

‘Scooped’ research welcome at PLOS Biology

Have you ever been ready to publish your exciting, potentially groundbreaking new piece of research based on many months of hard work - only...

Alberto Bardelli on what it’s like to ‘trend’ on Pubmed

PubMed is the leading search engine for biomedical literature, comprising more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and...

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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

The hiring and firing of PhD students is not unusual in a graduate school. However, the power balance is skewed more towards the PhD...