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Blending the traditional manuscript with live code, data and interactive figures, eLife showcases a new way for researchers to tell their full story.

Mozilla has opened applications for Open Science Mini-Grants. The latest round of grants seeks projects that address open practices in the field of biomedicine.

Ask for Evidence is a public campaign that holds powerful figures, companies, organisations and public bodies to account. It helps people challenge claims in news stories, adverts and policies and ask for the evidence behind them. It’s making sure a discussion on the evidence happens when it really matters. Becoming an ambassador is an opportunity to encourage others in your region to Ask for Evidence by giving talks, running activities and talking with community groups about issues that matter to them.  

Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel calls for formal action to bake in better research practices.

Academic hiring and promotion committees and funding bodies often use publication lists as a shortcut to assessing the quality of applications. In order to avoid bias towards prestigious titles, plain language statements should become a standard feature of academic assessment.

India's annual multi-million-euro outlay on scientific publishing is a bad deal for the country, says Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government.

Research puts a number on the proportion of people leaving full-time careers in science after the birth of their first child.

Fewer than 1 percent of doctorates in math are awarded to African-Americans. Edray Goins, who earned one of them, found the upper reaches of the math world a challenging place.

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

Rare effort to track wages reveals inconsistencies and a gender pay gap.

By creating journals that put a premium on replicability, grant-funding agencies can revolutionize the publishing landscape.

A two-year study by the University on the status of women and underrepresented minority faculty at Columbia has resulted in a set of proposals on ways to close salary gaps, spur academic advancement and improve the overall work environment.

There has been a fair amount of reactions to the changes being made to Wellcome's open access policy to ensure that no research is behind a paywall. This is how Wellcome are working to address them.

No formal investigations have been conducted into the efficacy or potential influence of reviewer recommendations on editorial decisions, and the impact of this on the expectations and behaviour of authors, reviewers and journal editors. This article addresses key questions about this critical aspect of the peer review submission process.

Many academics have strong incentives to influence policymaking, but may not know where to start. Recent research has examined the ‘how to’ advice in the academic peer-reviewed and grey literatures.

How do early career researchers use Sci-Hub and why? In this post David Nicholas assesses early career researcher attitudes towards the journal pirating site.

The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us.

Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.

Social science has an image problem - too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.

A new study shows that little teams are more likely to take their research in radically new directions.

A new study suggests that making reviewers' reports freely readable doesn't compromise the peer-review process.

With the membership of NSTC, the main public research funding body in the Republic of Zambia, cOAlition S now has members in Europe, North America, and Africa, and has received further support in the Middle East and Asia, with particular support by China.

Researchers say the policy could intensify existing issues with research quality and misconduct.

This is the first empirical study of major academic journals’ willingness to publish a cohort of comparable and objective correction letters on misreported high-impact studies.

Kelvin Droegemeier starts work two years into an administration facing many challenges.

Advance knowledge in service of equitable and open scholarship is the mission of the Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship. CREOS seeks evidence about the best ways disparate communities can participate in scholarship with minimal bias or barriers. 

Invited talk by Jon Tennant delivered at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference.

The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse

A planned $35-million upgrade could enable LIGO to spot one black-hole merger per day by the mid-2020s.