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The Open Library of Humanities has demonstrated a model for high-quality open access publishing, without Article Processing Charges. We asked Chief Executive Officer Martin Eve whether the Library could serve as inspiration for Learned Societies in a post-Plan S world.

Science historian Aileen Fyfe explores how copyright has become intertwined with scholarly publishing.

All disciplines should follow the geosciences and demand best practice for publishing and sharing data, argue Shelley Stall and colleagues.

Whilst a shift to gold (pay to publish) open access would deliver wider access to research, the lack of price sensitivity amongst academics presents a risk that they will be locked into a new escalating  pay to publish system.

Recently retired, this professor emeritus reflects on how she challenged students to think beyond facts.

Chefs verordnen gerne agile Arbeitstechniken. Eine Analyse zeigt, dass sie diese aber selbst nie anwenden würden.

How a simple nudge can improve health and nutrition reporting.

Research teams traversing partially melted fjord to retrieve weather equipment release startling picture.

A couple of years ago, psychologist Susan Fiske launched a broadside against science bloggers - since taken offline - packed with name-calling.

Stress and long working hours are regrettably common among early-career researchers, reveals a survey by the group the Young Academy of Europe.

Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software.

The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure. Here's the first account of what happened to Xifeng Wu.

Francis Collins pledged to decline to speak at conferences that do not include enough women in prominent speaking roles.

We are scientists from various disciplines and we will go on strike on 14 June 2019. Women* are systematically underrepresented to a great degree at Swiss higher education institutions. 

The British Journal of Anaesthesia's unusual experiment is designed to broaden replicability efforts beyond just methods and results.

The history of science has often seen women's work overlooked and their credit stolen.

Widely available high-quality, up-to-date, complete metadata could significantly speed up the dissemination of scholarly research. Metadata 2020 is working to make this a reality.

Fake publications are corrupting the world of research-  and influencing real news.

A North American framework for creating transformative change in the scholarly publishing industry based on initial insights from the University of California's 2018-19 negotiations with Elsevier.

To promote effective sharing, we must create an enduring link between the people who generate data and its future uses, urge Heather H. Pierce and colleagues.

A new Research England funded project is set to help universities, researchers, libraries and publishers to make more, and better, use of open access book publishing.

All researchers should strive to improve the quality, relevance and reliability of their work.

Brexit or no Brexit, scientists across the continent have an obligation to keep standing up for ideals such as integrity, trust and cooperation, writes the European Union's former director-general of research, Robert-Jan Smits.

Why colleges and universities that claim to take teaching seriously need a comprehensive and fair system of evaluating it.

Changing the name on a CV affects how physics and biology faculty members view theoretical applicants, according to a new study. 

While statistical significance sends the so-called significant results into the literature, the results on the other side of the threshold often disappear into the “famous file drawer”.

As the transition to a system for sharing knowledge that is open by default accelerates, the question “open for whom?” is essential—both to consider and to act upon.

An interdisciplinary team has come up with a mobile app for identifying plants based on users taking a photo of the plant on their mobile. For Citizen Science the enthusiastic engagement of the public with Flora Incognita shows a clear path forward for more widespread uses of machine learning in public participation with science and scholarship, and in knowledge creation.

The president of Switzerland's top-ranked university warned that both Switzerland and the European Union would lose out if his country were excluded from the next big EU research programme.

ASAPbio launched Transpose, a database of journal peer review, co-reviewing, and preprint policies relating to media coverage, licensing, versions, and citation.