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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.
CERN has launched an ambitious drive towards open source software after Microsoft revoked its academic discount and introduced a new contract which was set to lead to a tenfold increase in licensing costs.
Neil Jacobs, Head of Open Science and research lifecycle at UK not-for-profit, Jisc, has been appointed as interim programme manager for cOAlition S.
IEEE to provide more high-quality options for authors and researchers.
Professor Martin Eve will lead Birkbeck's part in the project, which has been made possible through a £2.2 million grant from Research England.
Women are protesting against the slow pace of change, calling for "more money, time and respect".
medRxiv aims to meet the unique preprint needs of the clinical research community with a free, non-profit service.
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.
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.
The purpose of peer review is often portrayed as being a simple ‘objective’ test of the soundness or quality of a research paper. However, it also performs other functions primarily through linking and developing relationships between networks of researchers.
The Ben Barres Spotlight Awards will give scientists in underrepresented communities an opportunity to gain visibility for their work and increase collaboration.
How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world's academic research from paywalls.
Hundreds of thousands protest against ‘culture of sexism in everday life’.
Seven researchers discuss the challenges posed by science's embrace of one global language.
The Lancet welcomes the latest Plan S guidance, but differs in one aspect.
Funders should award competitive grants directly to journals to underwrite the costs of open access, urges Adriano Aguzzi.
This paper presents a first attempt to analyse Open Access integration at the institutional level. For this, we combine information from Unpaywall and the Leiden Ranking to offer basic OA indicators for universities. OA indicators are also disaggregated by green, gold and hybrid Open Access. We then explore differences between and within countries and offer a general ranking of universities based on the proportion of their output which is openly accessible.
Lynn Kamerlin, Bas de Bruin and their colleagues have been the most vocal critics of Plan S from the very beginning, braving continuous opposition from certain OA leaders. Now that final Plan S guidelines were released, the chemists publish this Open Letter expressing their worry about a possible dystopian OA future.
Science is often poorly communicated. Researchers can fight back.
