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The Swedish ISP Bahnhof has a strong historic commitment to free speech, so when the notoriously corrupt science publishing giant Elsevier sought to force the ISP to censor connections to the open access site Sci-Hub, the ISP went to court to resist the order.
Swiss native Hansjörg Wyss will give $1 Billion over the next decade to help accelerate land and ocean conservation around the world.
Scientists who team up with the public to conduct research need to do a better job of including all segments of society.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has halted a program that each year allows hundreds of the nation’s best graduate students to work with experts in another country.
Funding could help quantum technology gain commercial footholds in Europe.
Swiss university shut down astronomy institute last year where accused professor worked.
The site shows more and more studies are being pulled from the scientific record.
An improved architecture and enthusiastic user base are driving uptake of the open-source web tool.
A collaboration between non-profits eLife, Flockademic and the Center for Open Science aims to make open endorsements of research content possible across platforms.
Modern innovation policies should target in equal measure both economic competitiveness and societal progress. They should be informed by ambitious, overarching principles-based strategies that enable us to formulate specific political goals, or missions. We also need governance structures that allow for the agile, participatory and inclusive implementation of innovation policy measures. Presenting good examples of such strategies and structures, this study examines what these examples have to offer in terms of lessons learned.
OpenAIRE is happy to announce today the formation of its legal entity, OpenAIRE A.M.K.Ε., a non-profit partnership, to ensure a permanent presence and structure for a European-wide national policy and open scholarly communication infrastructure.
The largest-ever database of retracted articles suggests the burgeoning numbers reflect better oversight, not a crisis in science.
Thousands of abstracts of conference presentations, most by authors in China, were declared flawed.
The sudden, unexplained removal of a research paper on private equity firms buying dermatology practices has raised questions about corporate influence.
After almost two years, Switzerland’s first dedicated science crowdfunding platform has seen nearly 80% of projects meet their targets. But for its organisers and participants, success isn’t just measured in Swiss francs.
A job as a university research integrity officer turned out to be the perfect fit.
A paper arguing that the uncritical pursuit of reproducibility as an overarching epistemic value is misleading and potentially damaging to scientific advancement.
The State of Open Data 2018 looks at global attitudes towards open data. It includes survey results of researchers and a collection of articles from industry experts, as well as a foreword from Ross Wilkinson, Director, Global Strategy at Australian Research Data Commons.
Skeptics say drugs based on genetic insights have underdelivered. But look carefully and they're everywhere.
The first large-scale analysis of compliance with open-access rules reveals that up to one-third of articles are not free to read.
