Public Library of Science

Steering clear of the iceberg: three ways we can fix the data-credibility crisis in science

on May 24, 2013

Science has a data problem, There’s been a rash of experiments that no one can reproduce and studies that have to be retracted, But there are some nascent efforts to address this credibility crisis by changing the way the data is handled.

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?