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By joining the consortium, eLife will support the introduction of innovative new tools to help expand the current online open scholarly infrastructure.
To conserve Earth's remarkable species, we must also defend the importance of science and scientific integrity.
Giving researchers the data skills they need to share, review, and validate each other’s work, writes Erin Becker.
A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing.
A new paper argues that journal publishers should become much more transparent about their peer review practices.
Science should abandon its assembly-line mentality and rebuild for quality, not quantity, argues Michele Pagano.
Humanity might have saved itself a lot of trouble in the long run by investing in the Einstein-Szilard approach to cooling water with fire.
The 2014 REF results show only a very weak relationship between excellence in research and achieving societal impact.
A list of instutions cancelling their contracts with Elsevier by the end of 2017.
Publishing platforms from The Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the European Commission alter Open Access.
The field of ecology is poised to take advantage of emerging technologies that facilitate the gathering, analyzing, and sharing of data, methods, and results.
What it means for researchers.
Life scientists told us whether they would like to share and read computationally reproducible research articles.
Researchers had to remove the bird because they were worried it’d teach the others.
There is too little sound research on journal peer review.
Sci-Hub's contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals and 77.0% of the 5.2 million articles published by inactive journals.
An analysis of 15 million English scientific full-text articles published during the period 1823-2016.
Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.
Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better.
A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper.
Bill Radke talks to Paul Basken, science policy reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, about how we should consume news that reports on scientific research.
The issue regarding free access to academic journals and content is growing increasingly contentious, with founders of sites that enable this facing the might of the law. But should knowledge be exclusive?
The European Commission has offered funding for an internet for research data. But it’s unclear what it expects to get for its money.
