Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Plan P: Can institutions facilitate open access?
Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 17, 2022
- 1 min
ResearchGate responsible for illegal content on its site, German court rules
The popular academic social networking site ResearchGate is appealing a 31 January ruling by a district court in Munich, Germany, which...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 2, 2022
- 1 min
A Conversation with Ashok Kumar Singh
Can a microbial cocktail of seven different species of fungi help solve Indian farmers' stubble-burning crisis? I spoke to Ashok Kumar...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 1, 2022
- 1 min
Clarivate Analytics’s new author profiles tool to include peer review activity
Clarivate Analytics, the UK-based firm that owns the scholarly database Web of Science (WoS), has begun automatically generating author...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 28, 2022
- 1 min
Tobacco publishing ban extended to researchers at industry-owned firms
A group of international respiratory societies has banned researchers associated with tobacco companies from publishing papers in their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 24, 2022
- 1 min
Massive open index of scholarly papers launches
An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 24, 2022
- 1 min
Royal Society report says there’s no silver bullet to fix ‘scientific misinformation’
There’s no quick and easy way to fix the problem of ’scientific misinformation’, argues a new report released by the Royal Society. As...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 21, 2022
- 1 min
Why was a study about autism cited by a paper on plant beauty?
One paper is about the aesthetic beauty of plant landscapes. Another reviews the use of anesthetic drugs in cancer patients. A third aims...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
China sanctions hundreds of researchers following fraud investigation
China’s ministry of science and technology (MOST) has sanctioned hundreds of researchers after an investigation concluded that they had...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 7, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers sound alarm on ‘predatory’ rankings
Hey, researchers and universities, want to be included in a new ranking scheme? No problem, just pony up some cash. The full article was...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 2, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers spent an estimated 130 million hours peer-reviewing papers in 2020
In 2020, researchers globally spent an estimated 130 million hours – equivalent to 15,000 years – peer-reviewing manuscripts for...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 30, 2021
- 1 min
The future of librarianship
Libraries need to become more user-friendly and to meet the demand of their patrons for digital services, according to a new survey...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 25, 2021
- 1 min
Record number of first-time observers get Hubble telescope time
An unprecedented number of first-time investigators have secured viewing time on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in the years since the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 10, 2021
- 1 min
Former chemistry professor jailed for making meth
A former chemistry professor was sentenced to 4 months in jail by an Arkansas court after pleading guilty to making methamphetamine at...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
Court acquits chemistry professor accused of cooking meth
A court has acquitted a former chemistry professor at Henderson State University (HSU) in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, after a jury found him...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
Cassyni aims to make online seminars more findable and citable
A new online tool, Cassyni, aims to help academics run and keep track of research seminars worldwide. Its creators say that it will also...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
The blurred line of responsibility between research offices and libraries
As libraries and research offices evolve with the complex and competitive demands of the research enterprise, tensions over their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers urge funders and institutions to crack down on false investigators
The illegal inclusion of false investigators on grant proposals and research papers should be classified as research misconduct,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
Q&A: Australia’s chief scientist proposes a centralized national plan for open access
Australia lags behind comparable research-intensive countries in Europe in the development of open-access policies, according to a recent...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
Australian institutions lag behind on open access adoption
Only half of Australia’s 40 universities have a formal policy on open access (OA), and the policies are vague and ineffectual, according...
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