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The Open Publishing Fest, held over two weeks in May 2020, was a great success with over 150 events from all over the world and a huge variety of topics. The fest really brought people together and injected some charm into the communities life at an otherwise bleak time. With this in mind here ar
A report on masks relied on unfounded assumptions, researchers charged, and the authors were permitted to choose their own reviewers.
As budgets tighten and the need for open resources swells, efforts to fund essential Open Science services remains critical, as claims the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS).
The president of Switzerland's top-ranked university says his institution is tentatively getting back to speed after the coronavirus lockdown - but that this is harder than anticipated.
Over the last few months we've been in conversation with colleagues in higher education about what they see as the challenges that lie ahead as they weigh reopening plans and longer term effects of the global pandemic. Starting June 29th, we will be launching our first research effort to support institutional decision-making in research and scholarship.
It is likely we'll eventually have a coronavirus vaccine - but perhaps not as quickly as some expect. From development, to clinical trials and distribution, ProPublica reporter Caroline Chen explains the tremendous challenges that lie ahead.
Nature asked authors and editors for advice on how to improve peer-review communication.
A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess.
The University of California today (June 16) announced a transformative open access publishing agreement that will make more of the University's research freely and immediately available to individuals and researchers across the globe.
While the use of preprints has increased over the last years, preprint awareness and attitudes vary widely across research communities and among stakeholders in research communication.
In a large trial, a cheap and widely available steroid cut deaths by one-third among patients critically ill with COVID-19.
Today's deal between the University of California and publisher Springer Nature is a big milestone on the path to dismantling paywalls around academic journals.
New calculations come up with estimate for worlds capable of communicating with others.
Early-career researchers feel discouraged from exposing vulnerability even during a global crisis.
Experts call for legislation and trade deals worldwide to encourage green recovery.
From solving attribution issues to understanding terms of service, here are some welcomed tips from Europeana, the Getty Museum, and Newfields.
How can online workshops be productive, engaging, caring and fun? How can researchers creatively adapt to a 'virtual normal' and develop caring and co-operative ways of working.
Vietnam chose to prevent rather than fight Covid-19, a strategy which means it has had no virus deaths.
Organs of some who die after over a month in hospital sustain 'complete disruption', peers told.
Efforts to block research on climate change don't just come from the Trump political appointees on top. Lower managers in government are taking their cues, and running with them.
#BlackintheIvory offers proof that academia needs to do better. Now we just need to do the work.
This study aims to evaluate the 1-year results of a prospective randomized social media trial to determine the effect of tweeting on subsequent citations and non-traditional bibliometrics.
