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It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell.
Sci-Hub is not a search engine and it stores papers in its own repository.
A new way to access and consume science from your desktop using peer-to-peer technology.
Evaluating academic performance on the basis of journal publications is skewing research priorities. This does our public funders a disservice.
Berlin Universities demand fair prices and free access to information.
A simulation-based evaluation of statistical tests on publication bias.
Linked Open Data may sound good and noble, but it’s the wrong way around.
The ‘trainee’ designation has broad implications, noted speakers at the Future of Biomedical Graduate and Postdoctoral Training meeting earlier this month.
Authors from western, individualist cultures are more likely to use many self-citations than authors from more collectivist cultures.
Government funding is a relatively recent phenomenon, but scientific progress is not.
Liz Allen looks into what peer review actually tells us and how we use expert opinion.
Crispr inventor Jennifer Doudna talks about discovering the gene-editing tool, the split with her collaborator and the complex ethics of genetic manipulation.
The British Academy and the Royal Society are carrying out a project examining new uses of data and their implications, and reviewing the data governance landscape.
A group of junior researchers at Cambridge have established a campaign against the damaging pressure to produce 'sexier' results
Fed up with the relentless pressure to produce reams of jazzed-up findings, a group of junior researchers at the University of Cambridge are fighting back with a campaign called Bullied into Bad Science.
Musicians and moviemakers are not the only ones to suffer from internet piracy.
The number of researchers who work on basic science questions has dropped precipitously.
There are probably much better reasons for creating a diverse team and organization than boosting creativity.
Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of the site Sci-Hub.
Low salaries, excessive bureaucracy and poorly defined research policies add to region’s woes.
A time-limited exercise in which academics from many disciplines and from all over the world were brought together virtually to produce an academic article.
Exploring research career transitions and shaping research culture in the UK.
New procedures give president final say in academy's elections.
The recent long read about scientific publishing in the Guardian is fantastic. It depicts a very telling story of the research publishing landscape.
