Blog by Dr. Ulf Tölch
A reading list if you want to get started with meta research featured by eLife:
https://elifesciences.org/collections/8d233d47/meta-research-a-collection-of-articles
The German DEAL consortium has signed its first agreement with the publisher Wiley on Open Access publishing. A new kind of ‘publish and read’ agreement allows members of the consortium, consisting of more than 700 German academic institutions, to publish all their articles as Open Access and to gain access to all Wiley journals for a yearly fee payed by the consortium.
What is scientific impact anyways?
http://elephantinthelab.org/its-time-to-update-our-understanding-of-scientific-impact/
UK Universities need to improve their reporting on clinical trials.