The move could aid a global movement for immediate free access to scientific articles.

CROCI, the Crowdsourced Open Citations Index, is a new OpenCitations Index containing citations deposited by individuals, identified by ORCiD identifiers, who have a legal right to publish them under a CC0 public domain waiver.

The UC system, the largest public academic system in the US, just dropped its $10 million-a-year subscription to the world's largest publisher of academic journals.

In creating a new innovation council, the European Commission is experimenting not just in policy but also in management.

University Librarian and Professor Jeffrey MacKie-Mason talks about why UC split with the academic publisher.

A pilot project representing the first significant experiment with the syndication of publisher content to a content supercontinent.

Thanks largely to the strong performance of ETH Zurich, the Swiss university system has entered the top three globally in the latest QS rankings.

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC's key goal: securing universal open access to UC research while containing the rapidly escalating costs associated with for-profit journals.

If the documents are correct, they would raise doubts about the preliminary findings of a government investigation that He Jianqui acted mostly on his own.

Scientists now know more about what makes Lil Bub such a unique feline. 

The Dutch universities will give open access an extra boost from 2019 by starting a pilot to make publications available after six months in collaboration with researchers.

Funding cuts proposed by the White House are reversed in a budget that is over four months late.

The concept of science diplomacy has gained enormous traction over the past decade, though in itself it is of older origin.

Elsevier saw 2% underlying revenue growth in 2018, according to the latest annual financial results filed by parent company RELX, to a total of £2,538m.

Ladies and gentlemen, we appear to have a new record. The Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences (JFAS) recently retracted 434 articles from three issues of their journal. Yes, 434, giving it …

A Vanderbilt faculty member, considered a hero to many women in science, finds her once promising tenure bid has stalled.

Shifting attitudes of researchers towards open access mandates.

Project Deal, a consortium of libraries, universities, and research institutes in Germany, has unveiled an unprecedented deal with a major journal publisher, Wiley, that is drawing close scrutiny from advocates of open access to scientific papers.

The Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and control.

My recent reporting has highlighted why racial exclusion in "the queen of the sciences'' may matter most of all.

Mozilla has opened applications for Open Science Mini-Grants. The latest round of grants seeks projects that address open practices in the field of biomedicine.

The White House is working to assemble a panel to assess whether climate change poses a national security threat, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post, a conclusion that federal intelligence agencies have affirmed several times since President Trump took office.

Blending the traditional manuscript with live code, data and interactive figures, eLife showcases a new way for researchers to tell their full story.

A two-year study by the University on the status of women and underrepresented minority faculty at Columbia has resulted in a set of proposals on ways to close salary gaps, spur academic advancement and improve the overall work environment.

Rare effort to track wages reveals inconsistencies and a gender pay gap.

Social science has an image problem - too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.

Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.