Welcome to this Special Issue of EuroScientist on: Hacking Bureaucracy!
Bureaucracy is spreading like the plague. It has now pervaded every aspect of scientists’ lives; often to the point of choking the hardiest of investigators.
Yet, technology has evolved so much so that it now offers simple solutions to cut trough the paperwork and make the scientific process more efficient, more collaborative and altogether smarter.
Now, the time is right to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by technology and raise to the challenge of removing the hindrances brought by bureaucracy.
Find out more by reading our special issue below.
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The EuroScientist Team
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Edito: time for serious hacking solutions in scholarly publishing
By Sabine Louët, EuroScientist Editor.
In her own words
Emmanuelle Charpentier: the strings attached to CRISPR/Cas9 success
By Sabine Louët, EuroScientist Editor.
Emmanuelle Charpentier: European research funding could do with less red tape
By Sabine Louët, EuroScientist Editor.
Hacking solutions
Self-organised scientific crowds to remedy research bureaucracy
By Michele Catanzaro, science journalist, Spain.
Thomas Landrain interview: short-circuiting research
By Sabine Louët, EuroScientist Editor.
Gemma Milne interview: Fast-tracking research through cross-fertilisation
By Sabine Louët, EuroScientist Editor.
Challenging bureaucracy
The controversial art of research management
By Fiona Dunlevy, science journalist, France.
Hans Wigzell interview: let the researchers free from bureaucrats
By Jens Degett, science journalist, Denmark.
From our archives
Under the diktat of paperwork
By Anthony King, science journalist, Ireland.
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