The 2017 Better Science through Better Data event in London, UK, hosted by Springer Nature and Wellcome, was a full day exposé of emerging open data practices, tools, strategies, and policies. Among the potential benefits of open data are replicability, reproducibility, and reusability. While open data is a relatively new hype, some evidence suggests that open data does indeed increase reproducibility. Read more
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Have you ever stumbled across a tool you never knew existed, then wondered how you ever lived without it? Happened to me the other day. The tool in question? CSL Editor, a search tool and editor for bibliographic styles. Read more
Even though this was a few years ago, the advice given in Writing a paper: habits of successful authors still stands true today, and this was our starting point for this month. Bernd Pulverer, head of scientific publications at the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), shared some insights with attendees at the NaturejobsCareer Expo in Heidelberg, Germany in May 2011. Read more
To match this month’s Windback Wednesday series on publishing, Julie Gould speaks to Euan Adie, director at Altmetric, and Alex Hodgson, head of marketing at ReadCube in this podcast about scientific publishing and a digital future. Read more
In this Windback Wednesdays series Naturejobs is exploring the world of academic publishing. It’s a competitive market, with scientist young and old continuously under pressure to get their work into the best academic journals. Whether or not this will continue to be the case remains an open discussion, but in the mean time, we’ve got some archived content filled with hints and tips on how to get your work noticed. Read more
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