Geographical Differences in Open Access Ecosystems: Implications for Research Societies ...
Open access (OA) has moved from a niche challenger to conventional scholarly publishing, to a movement that is transforming the traditional academic publishing landscape. In response to the rise of OA and the overall shift to open science, many publishers ...
Nearly 30% of the Population is Skeptical About Science: How ...
Innovations and new technologies are emerging worldwide at a dizzying speed. These developments are the result of scientific advances and are critical to improving the human condition. Despite, or perhaps because of, all the progress we’ve made, our society is ...
The Chinese Academy of Sciences: Its Importance in China’s Research ...
When building a presence in a new country, it is important to understand local, social, and cultural norms around the research community. As mentioned in our previous posts, China is emerging as a market of interest to a number of ...
Phase II of the NIH Policy on Preprints: Implications for ...
Preprints of scholarly research articles have been around since at least the 1960s and were originally actually printed. Now, preprints are versions of scientific articles that are posted to public servers prior to undergoing a peer review process. The availability ...
Building Awareness of Your Mentoring Program: Tips for Research Societies
Mentoring programs offered by research societies have the potential to provide many benefits to all those involved in them. However, these benefits cannot be realized unless members are aware of and participate in the programs. Various strategies have been used ...
What is the TOPS mission? A Quick Look at NASA’s ...
On January 11, 2023, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the US declared 2023 as the Year of Open Science, in collaboration with multiple well-known federal agencies such as NASA and the US NIH. Among ...
How Societies are Engaging With and Supporting Science Educators
Besides researchers themselves, two important stakeholders in academia are research societies and educators. The contribution of educators to research is often overlooked; nevertheless, they play a vital role in driving forward academia by Hence, for research societies, engaging with and ...
Crafting a Patent Communication Strategy: Tips for Universities
Universities are both large producers of intellectual property (IP) through their research activities and large consumers of IP through their instruction. Patents for inventions are one of the major IP products created by research institutes and universities. The number of ...
How Mentorship Programs Benefit Research Societies: Innovative Approaches to Mentoring
Research societies support their members in many ways, including by providing them opportunities to make connections, share their research, and become more involved in policy discussions in their discipline. However, memberships in academic societies have declined recently, in part due ...