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Elsevier, a major scientific publisher, has a 36 percent profit margin - bigger than Apple, Amazon, and Google. And it's just one of many. But Sci-Hub could change all that by releasing every article for free.
Expansion of US carrier associated with an increase in partnerships of more than 30 percent.
The latest drafts of the copyright regulations in the EU have triggered a wave of criticism from open-science advocates saying that the proposals will stifle research and scholarly communication.
University of California libraries tackle the transition from subscription-based publishing to sustainable open access.
The difference between full counting and fractional counting of publiations should inform our interpretation of the headlines.
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Next Einstein Forum and Elsevier launch a megajournal to boost African research and collaboration.
Across the UK, universities are falling behind government targets to increase female representation on their boards by 2020. What steps can they take?
Dr Patrick Vallance starts in his role as Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) today.
A group of fourteen authors came together in February 2018 at the TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology) in Hannover to create an open, living handbook on Open Science training.
Scholars love to hate the journal impact factor, but how flawed is it?
Most lab mice are kept in pristine conditions, but a few immunologists think a dose of dirt could make them a better model of human disease.
Life Science Alliance is a global, open-access, editorially independent, and peer-reviewed journal launched by an alliance of EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
A growing number of scientific leaders believe the current system of faculty incentives and rewards is misaligned with the needs of society. Here we propose six principles for assessing scientists and associated research and policy implications.
I didn’t really understand how unjust the academic system was for career advancement for women until I had children
The NIH announced in December 2017 that it would rereview dozens of applications that might have been compromised in terms of confidentiality.
Nature peers into the evidence for ‘psychographic targeting’.
An outpouring on Twitter highlights the acute pressures on young scientists.
I’m in graduate school to learn, and preprints—draft versions of journal articles that are shared prior to peer review—offer a great opportunity to do just that. Here’s how preprints help young researchers grow in ways traditional types of scientific communication don’t.
Explore the top universities in parts of the Middle East and North Africa based on data collected by Times Higher Education
A new study of 728 campaigns from a crowdfunding platform finds that women and students tend to do better.
The No Women No Panel Campaign initiated by Commissioner Mariya Gabriel has been supported and reiterated by several of her colleagues from the European Commission. She committed to ensuring at least one other woman is part of panels she is invited to speak at.
