Search Results for "Covid 19"

April 27, 2023
Pivoting to COVID research during lockdown – an interview with Professor Rudo Römer, theoretical physicist
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The worldwide COVID pandemic was a crisis unparalleled in recent history. The efforts of scientists and researchers around the world in mobilising to find vaccines, treatments, and explanations were equally unparalleled. In this article, we tell the story of one such research collaboration using their collective expertise in protein-modelling to…
January 12, 2022
Open Access Books – A World Beyond Covid
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What comes next for open access books as we envision life beyond COVID-19?…
March 31, 2021
Forward Looking Thoughts: Monographs in a Post-COVID World
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Cathy Holland, our Director of Global Publisher Development, looks ahead at how the pandemic has changed monograph culture.
January 22, 2021
What shape will the post-COVID university take
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Online learning is fragmenting the traditional model of the university as a single site for both education and research.
January 18, 2021
The COVID brain drain
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One in every 25 publications that appeared on Dimensions in 2020 refers to COVID-19. Daniel Hook and Simon Porter look at where all this research activity has come from, and which fields are losing out.
April 2, 2024
Collaboration, competition and curiosity – meet Venki Ramakrishnan
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Dr Suze Kundu speaks with Nobel laureate and former President of the Royal Society, now Group Lead of the Structural Studies Division of the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Venki Ramakrishnan.
March 26, 2024
TL;DR Shorts: Dr Kate Devlin on trust in research
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In today's #TLDRShorts episode, Dr Kate Devlin gives us her short, snappy insights on research integrity and trust, and how we can achieve a better balance between the rigour of the peer review process and the timely sharing of novel research.
March 8, 2024
FuturePub London – International Women’s Day 2024
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#FuturePub was back in London ahead of International Women's Day! Our five amazing Lightning Talk speakers took us on a journey from historic inequity and how that persists in modern day research, some great examples of the impact of that inequity on society, and what we need to be mindful…
February 26, 2024
In the spotlight: Social sciences’ fourth key ingredient for research success
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The fourth (and final) in our series of Spotlights on the key ‘ingredients’ of social sciences research, which make up the ‘secret sauce’ of UK innovation success.
February 8, 2024
Women’s first publications in decline after decades of growth
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For decades, the proportion of women publishing their first academic publication has increased. However, following the COVID-19 pandemic, this growth has gone in reverse for two consecutive years, with 2024 not looking better.