Research Roundup: Charity Open Access Fund report, studying metascience and more | PLOScast

"This week in research news: In 2014, the Charity Open Access Fund was established to provide grants to UK research institutions. Each year, recipients of the grants are asked to provide details of how the money was spent. In 2015, the number of articles published using an APC model with a COAF grant increased by 15% over the previous year. Is studying metascience right for you?  This Science article discusses some of the considerations a scientist should think about before taking on metascience work. “The thing to keep in mind is that no single study provides definitive evidence,” writes Christie Ascwanden in her FiveThirtyEight article about how failure is moving science forward. In a recent article by Savo Heleta, he shares three reasons why academics may not be getting their ideas into the public domain."