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Chemistry World
June 28, 2013
Maria Burke |
Science 'ecosystem' needs diversity to flourish How should research grants be allocated? Are large grants to a few elite researchers more effective than small grants to many researchers? A new study has concluded that targeting diversity rather than 'excellence' may be more productive.   |
Chemistry World
January 14, 2014
Maria Burke |
Funding sharing model would see grant proposals ditched A Google-inspired crowdfunding system for evaluating and funding research could provide a better alternative to peer review, US researchers claim. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
US spends billions annually on unreproducible preclinical research Preclinical research that can't be replicated is funded to the tune of about $28 billion in the US annually. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2013
Mark Peplow |
The judgement of your peers The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment has almost 10,000 signatories demanding that funders and institutions stop using journal-level metrics as a basis for such decisions, and instead focus on the scientific content of papers. |
Chemistry World
October 23, 2012
Leila Sattary |
EPSRC grant success rates rise The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has experienced a significant decrease in the number of applications submitted in 2011 -- 12, which has led to the highest grant success rates in the last decade. |
Chemistry World
February 1, 2013
Rebecca Trager |
Duplicate grants could be costing US science agencies millions The US's premiere science agencies may be inadvertently awarding tens of millions of dollars to scientists who submitted the same grant proposal multiple times and accepted duplicate funding. |
AFP eWire
June 14, 2011 |
Before You Leap: Weighing the Benefits of Grants Here is some helpful perspective on the world of grants that might save your organization valuable time and resources. |
Chemistry World
October 15, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Quotas proposed to back younger US researchers A US politician's plans to introduce quotas to ensure that the National Institutes of Health's grants go to younger researchers is receiving opposition from somewhat surprising quarters -- science advocacy groups. |
Chemistry World
November 20, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Feud opens up over value of some US research Republican Lamar Smith wants to know more about the review process for certain NSF grants |
Chemistry World
June 28, 2012
Maria Burke |
Wellcome Trust to enforce open access rules The Wellcome Trust has announced it will withhold final grant payments from researchers who fail to make their findings freely available with immediate effect. |
Chemistry World
February 19, 2015
Francois-Xavier Coudert |
Setting the record straight It is every scientist's duty to add knowledge to this record, but also to safeguard its integrity by checking that others' work is reproducible. |
Chemistry World
December 4, 2013
Andy Extance |
Subjectivity may curb false findings UK researchers have suggested that purely objective scientific peer review could fail to eliminate false theories. |
Chemistry World
April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Chemistry World
July 27, 2011
Leila Sattary |
Research council to pick favorites to receive UK chemistry funding The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has announced a big policy shakeup which will concentrate research money in areas of 'national importance'. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2011
Waaijers & van der Graaf |
Quality of Research Data, an Operational Approach This article reports on a study, commissioned by SURFfoundation, investigating the operational aspects of the concept of quality for the various phases in the life cycle of research data: production, management, and use/re-use. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2012
Patrick Walter |
NERC asks institutes to weed out poor grants The UK Natural Environment Research Council is planning to ask institutes to winnow out 'uncompetitive' proposals in an effort to drive up its grant application success rates. |
Bio-IT World
Jul/Aug 2006
Kevin Davies |
Science Publishing and the Web Several technologies are poised to radically change the ability of scientists to share data and develop ideas both within and between organizations: Nature Network Boston... PLoS ONE... |
Chemistry World
January 2008
Gurney & Adams |
Comment: How Good is UK Chemistry? Using bibliometrics as the key measure, the author compares the publication output of different countries. |
Chemistry World
November 8, 2011
Walter & Howes |
EPSRC sticks to its funding strategy guns The UK's principal chemistry funding body is pressing ahead with its controversial 'shaping capability' strategy. This is despite anger over the way the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has said it will decide which areas to prioritise in the physical sciences. |
Chemistry World
May 2009 |
Funding fall-outs The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council recently announced plans to ban persistently unsuccessful grant applicants for one year. Why did it do this and why are some UK chemists unhappy about it? |
Chemistry World
September 9, 2009
Leila Sattary |
Peer review under the microscope One of the largest ever international surveys of authors and reviewers has reiterated concerns over integrity, demand and quality control in peer review and highlighted the system's inability to effectively detect plagiarism. |
Chemistry World
January 13, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
US science funder updates policy on same sex partners Social change has led the US National Institutes of Health to update its policies. |
Chemistry World
July 14, 2015
Anthony King |
Metrics have their place but peer review remains king The Higher Education Funding Council for England is working on the next assessment of UK universities, the Research Excellence Framework. The outcome of REF affects the distribution of around 1.6 billion pounds of funding to universities. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2014
Knoth & Herrmannova |
Towards Semantometrics: A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure for Assessing a Research Publication's Contribution We propose Semantometrics, a new class of metrics for evaluating research. |
Geotimes
November 2004 |
Open Access: Open Debate? Imagine any U.S. citizen having free and open access to research funded with tax dollars. That possibility could be closer to reality than ever before, but Congress must first address some important concerns |
Chemistry World
March 31, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Scientists raise concern over fast-track peer review scheme Nature Publishing Group's journal Scientific Reports has introduced a trial for a fast-track peer review system, which authors can use if they pay an additional fee. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2014
Knoth et al. |
Guest Editorial A significant proportion of the new approaches presented in this issue address a wide range of problems in extracting structured information, and even detailed semantics, from research papers. |
Chemistry World
December 19, 2014
Mark Peplow |
A bad business The university-as-business model has been embraced because of its potential benefits. But there is a growing feeling that the relentless pursuit of targets is at odds with scientific research and the academic ethos. |
Chemistry World
March 4, 2013
Leila Sattary |
UK funders get tough on research misconduct Universities who do not take cases of research misconduct seriously could have their funding withdrawn. The new sanctions are set out in the revised Policy and Guidelines on Governance of Good Research Conduct, published by Research Councils UK |
D-Lib
September 2004
Bonita Wilson |
Recommended Reading For the D-Lib audience: US Congressional Budget Office report, Copyright Issues in Digital Media... UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report, Scientific Publications: Free for All?... National Institutes of Health (NIH) publication Notice: Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information... |
Information Today
April 2003
Robin Peek |
Could Peer Review Be Wrong? Seriously questioning the validity of the peer-review process is like debating the merits of a holy grail. But two scholarly societies are now asking if peer review is in fact such a good thing. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jul/Aug 2005
McCracken & Roth |
Funding Success Foundations can follow the lead of the healthcare industry toward better evidence-based practice grantmaking. |
Chemistry World
July 18, 2012
Maria Burke |
EU and UK bitten by the open access bug The European commission plans to make all the research findings funded by its 80 billion euro 2014 -- 2020 research program, Horizon 2020, accessible to all. |
Chemistry World
March 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Riding the RAE Rollercoaster For chemists, a shift to metrics may bring welcome relief from the time-consuming and onerous RAE, first praised but increasingly criticized for its effect on UK research. |
Chemistry World
July 29, 2011
Josh Howgego |
UK Research Needs an Independent Integrity Body A UK government report claims that the oversight of research integrity is unsatisfactory and recommends that an independent regulator be set up to oversee integrity. |
Chemistry World
February 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Fraudulent scientific results can terrorise a company's patent claims. Chemical patents have (especially among academic researchers) a reputation for unreliability and deliberate obscurity. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2012
Knoth et al. |
Special Issue on Mining Scientific Publications Digital libraries that store scientific publications are becoming increasingly important in research. They are used not only for traditional tasks such as finding and storing research outputs, but also as sources for discovering new research trends. |
Chemistry World
December 22, 2015
Mark Peplow |
How science can improve research collaboration Today, collaboration is key, and research networks increasingly span nations and disciplines. But what are the essential ingredients of a fruitful research collaboration? |
Chemistry World
June 2, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
NIH-funded principal investigators fell sharply in 2010 A former senior leader at the US National Institutes of Health has found what he calls a 'startling' decline in the number of principal investigators funded by the agency from between 2010 and the present day. |
Chemistry World
February 2007
John O'Reilly |
The Tyranny of Peer Review? All of us involved in the scientific peer review process must avoid being unduly conservative or risk-averse if we are to secure the required balanced research investment portfolio, including an appropriate proportion of high-risk, high-return activities. |
Chemistry World
February 6, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
US funder mulls new emeritus award The US National Institutes of Health is exploring a new grant mechanism for emeritus faculty that would let senior investigators exit their NIH research grant supported role. |
Information Today
September 13, 2004
Barbara Quint |
NIH Requires Open Access for Its Funded Medical Research With the NIH's decision, the fast-paced open access movement has picked up even more momentum. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Suhas Sreedhar |
Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation. |
Inc.
September 2003
Amy Gunderson |
Grants for Rural Biz States with lots of farms and fields are making more grants available to businesses. |
Chemistry World
October 27, 2009
Sarah Houlton |
ERC overhaul in wake of review The European Commission has responded to heavy criticism of the European Research Council by pledging to streamline its peer review process and hire a 'distinguished scientist' to run the agency. |
Chemistry World
April 24, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Science skirmishes continue on Capitol Hill A proposal by Republicans in the US Congress to reauthorize landmark legislation surrounding science and technology funding is being met with fierce backlash from scientific groups, as well as Democrats. |
Chemistry World
September 5, 2013
Rebecca Trager |
Funding woes lead US scientists to consider moving overseas A new report paints a bleak picture of scientists conducting government funded research in the US. As many as 18% of US scientists questioned for the analysis are considering taking their research to another country. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2004
Weaver & Fernley |
Tips for Getting Your Educational Technology Projects Funded Two points are important no matter what grant or source of funding you are looking at. |
Chemistry World
December 15, 2014
Maria Burke |
Can research quality be predicted by metrics? In terms of funding and reputation, the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise is a vital event in the academic calendar. Now a team of researchers has made predictions about the results of the latest assessment using citation-based metrics, rather than peer review. |
AFP eWire
October 8, 2007 |
Canadian Funders Placing Huge Burdens on Charities The entire grant/funding process in Canada is becoming increasingly burdensome, time-consuming and complicated, according to a new report by the Wellesley Institute. |
