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PLOS now partners directly with protocols.io to provide authors better ways to share methodological details about their work, practical tools to reduce wasted research efforts and persistent, citable identifiers for laboratory methods.
The principles of openness, transparency, and reproducibility might be weaponized to defund and deny research.
Using public information about the identities of 9000 editors and 43000 reviewers from the Frontiers series of journals, we show that women are underrepresented in the peer-review process.
A series of journalism conferences on obesity received covert funding from Coca-Cola.
U.S. taxpayers pay $30 billion a year to fund biomedical research aimed at finding better treatments. But competition for scarce funding and tenure may be prompting some scientists to cut corners.
Are we ready to give up traditional financial and governance control in favour of decentralised blockchain applications harbouring greater transparency?
Creators of a free tool that locates open-access versions of research articles are hoping to make scholarly publishers rethink their business models.
Springer Nature has developed a standardised, common framework for the research data policies of all its journals.
Statement by Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation concerning the recent legislative changes to the Hungarian national higher education Act.
Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own.
The science publishing world is a complex one, but the pendulum is currently swinging away from the paywalled mega-journals of the last decade to a more open model.
Read paywalled research papers for free. It's fast, free, and legal, powered by a database of millions of author-uploaded PDFs.
eLife now accepting manuscripts in R Markdow at innovation@elifesciences.org.
New tool joins a growing collection of software for accessing fee-for-view scientific literature.
Cheap, stripped-down microcontrollers are allowing users to pack huge amounts of computing power into tiny spaces.
Newer universities excel when it comes to internationalisation, Times Higher Education’s 2017 ranking of the world’s top young universities shows
It’s obvious that computers have become indispensable problem-solving partners. But it’s suddenly not enough to be a fluent user of software interfaces. Understanding what lies behind the computer’s seeming magic now seems crucial.
Open Science DB is a grassroots movement led by graduate students in science who aspire to make scientific research more accessible to the public.
Berners-Lee says Web access is a human right—and the technology he created needs a rethink.
Science isn’t just about explosions. But can children as young as 3 understand what it’s really about?
Published P-values provide a window into the global enterprise of medical research. The aim of this study was to use the distribution of published P-values to estimate the relative frequencies of null and alternative hypotheses and to seek irregularities suggestive of publication bias.
MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee has won the most prestigious honor in computer science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award. Often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize provided by Google.
Tim Berners-Lee just received the prestigious Turing Award that comes with a million dollars. Now he plots a radical overhaul of his creation.
Q&A with the author of a new book on reproducibility.
