Crowdsourced academic peer review and publishing www.meritocracyhq.com What's the problem? We simply want people to know more.
Our tax dollars fund 80% of research, which we should be able to see. As gatekeepers of the current model, publishing companies charge researchers to submit and review their work, then charge the masses to access their publications. As a result, researchers struggle with high time and cost barriers and the
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08/24/2019
Center for Open Science and EdArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service for Educational Research The Center for Open Science is pleased to partner with open access proponents and community leaders in education to launch EdArXiv. Developed and managed by a group of education researchers in collaboration with the Center for Open Science, EdArXiv provides open access to education research for all....
08/06/2018
How Open Commenting on Preprints Can Increase Scientific Transparency: An Interview With the Directors of PsyArxiv, SocArxiv, and Marxiv We believe more discourse around research is a good thing. To that end, we have partnered with Hypothesis, a third-party platform, to allow for annotation and discussion on our preprints services. Annotation on preprints will increase transparency in scientific practices by enabling researchers to c...
07/20/2017
Reproducibility and open science are starting to matter in tenure and promotion Tenure and promotion season is underway. Promotion committees, in the U.S. at least, use the summer to send portfolios to 3 to 10 scholars at other institutions for independent review of the candidate’s credentials. These independent assessments are a vital part of the review process, particularly...
07/14/2016
The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists These are dark times for science so we asked hundreds of researchers how to fix it.
03/25/2016
Failure Is Moving Science Forward While I paced around the green room at a recent TEDx event in Colorado, one of the other speakers offered the rest of us some advice on how to ease our nerves. “Raise your arms up in the air and ma…
02/11/2016
Do you use Sci-Hub?
Meet the Robin Hood of Science | Big Think How one researcher created a pirate bay for science more powerful than even libraries at top universities.
01/27/2016
PHD Comic: What to call your Academic Event Link to Piled Higher and Deeper
01/26/2016
How to read a scientific paper Credit: N.Hendrickson / iStockphoto How to read a scientific paper By Adam RubenJan. 20, 2016 Our columnist describes how he learned to read—and actually understand—journal articles Nothing makes you feel stupid quite like reading a scientific journal article. I remember my first experience with the…
09/30/2015
Academia Pushes A New Kind of Peer Review For Research With ‘Sessions’ For several years, Richard Price has had a quixotic dream to make cutting-edge academic research universally available to everyone. "I want a world where..
08/04/2015
A Private High-Speed Network Will Help Researchers Do Better Science Scientists working with supercomputers (or machines like the Large Hadron Collider) are generating vast amounts of data. Trying to pass around terabytes of numbers using Dropbox can get a little slow, so researchers on the West Coast are getting their own private fibre-optic network, dubbed the Paci…
07/14/2015
This map of the world’s scientific research is disturbingly unequal The global south melts off the map.
04/22/2014
How crowdsourcing science acclerates discovery How sites like Zooniverse let citizen scientists accelerate scientific research and make their own discoveries.