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Campaigners have argued for open access to scientific research since the dawn of the internet - so why is it taking so long?
Childhood obesity is a major public health problem, and has been for some time - but something is missing with many study methods.
Opinion: Things are not right in the culture of research, and that this is ultimately to the detriment of research. Two issues emerge: the huge complexity of the research ecosystem, and the related problem of collective action that this complexity creates.
The WHO's annnouncement came as China confirmed cases in Beijing and in Guangdong province, as well as a confirmed incident involving human-to-human spread.
Up to £200,000 per society available for flagging important biomedical research outputs.
Preprints, or versions of manuscripts posted online by authors ahead of peer review, are seeing a strong increase in adoption and recognition among many communities in the biomedical sciences.
While some talk about global science, China's skyrocketing investment in its scientific sector is causing real anxiety for Europe.
What chief academic officers think about the academic health of their institutions, the role of tenure, general education and much more.
Mr. Greenwald is accused of being part of a "criminal investigation" that hacked into the cellphones of prosecutors and public officials.
"A Frankenstein material" is teeming with - and ultimately made by - photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce.
Great strides have been made to encourage researchers to archive data created by research and provide the necessary systems to support their storage. Additionally it is recognised that data are meaningless unless their provenance is preserved, through appropriate meta-data. Alongside this is a pressing need to ensure the quality and archiving of the software that generates data, through simulation, control of experiment or data-collection and that which analyses, modifies and draws value from raw data.
Global study highlights long hours, poor job security and mental-health struggles.
China's best universities change its charter to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.
Eight years ago, President Vladimir Putin decreed that Russia must become a leading scientific power. That meant at least five top-100 Russian universities by 2020, and a dramatic increase in the number of global citations of Russian scientific papers. Now a group at the center of Putin’s aspirations, the Russian Academy of Sciences, has dropped a bombshell into the plans. A commission set up by the academy has led to the retraction of at least 869 Russian scientific articles, mainly for plagiarism.
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 disasters 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.
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.
