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The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles.
New study casts doubts on whether more information about science can really change someone's mind.
Consortium hopes to make all German-authored papers free to read by paying annual fee.
Enthusiasm for using Twitter as a source of data in the social sciences extends to measuring the impact of research with Twitter data being a key component in the new altmetrics approach.
The recent attempt by China to censor scholarship points to a growing set of challenges in information dissemination. Blaming the publisher obscures these issues.
Reviewing is an implicit part of vaguely-defined jobs.
A unified definition of open peer review – an author and reviewer in conversation
For the record, I do peer reviews! For free!
A historian recounts the National Institutes of Health's 1960s pilot test of exchanging unreviewed manuscripts, and how publishers killed it.
New preprint services could bring niche scientific communities into the open.
An open-source browser extension for linking, curating and sharing scientific insights across publishers.
Companies get better results when they ease up on the control tactics. It’s more effective to engage managers in solving the problem, expose them to people from different groups, and encourage social accountability for change.
Rather than repealing or replacing the impact factor, its producers should rename it to reflect its intended function more accurately.
Energy researcher Daniel Kammen faults US president’s positions on climate change and energy and his failure to condemn white supremacists.
Nature Plants explains how it handled a manuscript coauthored by Patrice Dunoyer, a biologist with multiple retractions to his name.
Replicating our work took four years and 100,000 worms but brought surprising discoveries, explain Gordon J. Lithgow, Monica Driscoll and Patrick Phillips.
If we can get our minds around Premier League statistics, we can handle experimental science, writes physics professor Tom McLeish
New paper illustrates the brutal and sexist comments faced by women in economics, and likely other fields as well.
A lack of recognition for the value of failure holds back creative risk-taking in science.
Academics pressure publisher as Beijing mouthpiece says western institutions can leave if they don’t like ‘the Chinese way’
Mapping research funding in Switzerland
The meaningless tasks and faux-business strategies prioritised by British universities have skewed their real role, writes André Spicer
Leaders in the fields of AI and robotics, including Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman, have signed a letter calling on the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons.
Two years ago this month, news of the replication crisis reached the front page of the New York Times.
