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Issue #18
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The data loss crisis
In their parents’ attic, in boxes in the garage, or stored on now-defunct floppy disks — these are just some of the inaccessible places in which scientists have admitted to keeping their old research data. Such practices mean that data are being lost to science at a rapid rate, a study has now found. The authors of the study, which is published today in Current Biology, looked for the data behind 516 ecology papers published between 1991 and 2011. The researchers selected studies that involved measuring characteristics associated with the size and form of plants and animals, something that has been done in the same way for decades. By contacting the authors of the papers, they found that, whereas data for almost all studies published just two years ago were still accessible, the chance of them being so fell by 17% per year. Availability dropped to as little as 20% for research from the early 1990s.
 
   
 
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Take down
Elsevier started issuing take-down notices in December to academia.edu and a number of universities who thought it was okay to self-archive their journal articles online.
   
Distortion-free
Academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a tyranny that must be broken, according to a Nobel prize winner who has declared a boycott on the publications.
   
Infomercial science
December was a busy month for reporting overpromoted science, from drug companies pushing suspect diagnoses to news that vitamins and antibacterial soap are (still) worthless.
 
 
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OA passes early adopter stage in 2013
Is Canada destroying its science libraries?
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The Facebooking of Economics
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There is no evidence to suggest
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Editors at the Prestigious Journal Nature Get Serious About Reddit
Intellectuals on a Mission
How to Read About Science
Physicists approve dramatic OA reforms for 2014
 
 
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