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Here’s how Bill Gates’s ResearchGate investment might change the world for the better

on June 5, 2013

Bill Gates doesn’t invest in tech companies very often. But with ResearchGate, a firm that stands a real chance of improving the workflow of scientists around the world, you can see why he bit.

Why do we need academic journals in the first place?

on February 22, 2012

The same disruption that is occurring in the traditional media industry is starting to affect academic publishing, with many scientists boycotting publisher Elsevier because of its control over the industry — which raises the question: why do we need expensive, paywalled academic journals at all?