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In a recent letter to the White House, a group of corporate publishers and scholarly organizations implore the president to leave intact…

Richard Horton says periodicals can no longer sit 'passively waiting' for submissions and should instead focus on issues such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Twin calamities marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth's great extinctions.

This Medical News story examines the outcry over a recently published guideline that found insufficient evidence to recommend eating less red meat.

Oxford initiative aims to link people and disciplines, say Laura Fortunato and Dorothy Bishop.

The open-access era seems to be arriving for academic research, but it looks as if big publishers will still profit.

Warnings that Sci-Hub poses a cybersecurity threat to universities have intensified. But few institutions appear to be acting on them.

An interview with Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, about the increasingly central role data science is playing in research and teaching, - and how journals, publishers, societies, and librarians fit in this emerging ecosystem.

Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.

A survey has warned that researchers are too stressed. It's up to universities to improve their working environment

The United States is no longer the 'uncontested leader' in science globally, the National Science Foundation says.

Without human insights, data and the hard sciences will not meet the challenges of the next decade, says Hetan Shah.

PLOS ONE will soon offer Registered Reports, a preregistration option which enables open peer review and publication of the initial study protocol in advance of the full research article.

We announce the participants and projects joining our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.

Here we present an anonymized version of the dataset that we collected in the quantitative phase of Wellcome's research on research culture. Additionally, we present a document detailing how the data was transformed to protect anonymity. We also present a flowchart that indicates how participants were guided to answer questions in the survey.

Funders driving open-access plan may use template to push for pricing transparency.

The post-World War II model for organizing science remains powerful, but moving beyond its limits will be necessary for assuring the contributions of science to solving a wide array of challenges.

As AI gets more talkative, designers need to consider the ethics of gendering not just voices, but the finer nuances of speech patterns.

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The Scientists for EU group is gearing up for 2020 after the desperate disappointment of losing its three-and-a-half year campaign against Brexit - a result that has major implications for research.

An independent report published by Information Power aims to improve the transparency of Open Access (OA) prices and services.

Stay organized to help spot ways in which brain circuits rewire themselves!

Perspectives on and experiences of research culture, based on a survey of more than 4,000 researchers in the UK and globally.

Citation metrics have value because they aim to make scientific assessment a level playing field, but urgent transparency-based adjustments are necessary to ensure that measurements yield the most accurate picture of impact and excellence. One problematic area is the handling of self-citations.

Diversity initiatives applaud role models but academics who are carers can have trouble relinquishing family privacy to share their experiences.

Science investigation of ClinicalTrials.gov reveals that federal promises to enforce trial transparency have fizzled.

Big data are difficult to handle. These tips and tricks can smooth the way.

This essay argues that giving authors a choice between submission fees and APCs has numerous benefits.

We're calling on librarians around the world to help make Wikipedia stronger than ever, in a world that needs reliable information more t…