The new exposure of peer review information through its public API provides opportunities for discoverability, analysis, and integration of tools.

Newly released guidelines open the door wider for foreign researchers, allowing them to lead public research projects.

Leading legislator Christian Ehler criticizes planning and budget for moonshot missions proposed by Commission - an idea not yet "changing the world".

Being inclusive gives research groups a competitive edge. It also happens to be the right thing to do.

The United Kingdom wants a part in European science programmes after Brexit, but the European Union could put a high price on it.

Independent board will review agency decisions to repeal or change climate regulations and rules on the use of non-public data.

Award goes to biochemists Virginijus Siksnys, whose lab independently developed the gene-editing tool, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna.

Preprints are one of the fastest growing types of content in Crossref.  The growth may well be approximately 30% for the past 2 years (compared to article growth of 2-3% for the same period).

Swedish researchers can now publish their articles in Frontiers’ Open Access journals through a simplified process that covers publishing fees, thanks to a national agreement announced today between Frontiers and the National Library of Sweden.

On 7 June, the European Commission will lay out detailed plans for one of the biggest single research programs on the planet. Called Horizon Europe, the program could be worth EUR97.6 billion between 2021 and 2027, up from about EUR77 billion for the current 7-year program, Horizon 2020. 

The young membership, frequency of elections and relaxed networks in science societies may provide vital positive influence for female promotion in STEM.

A new service called "Journals Mafia" appears to act as an intermediary between authors and journals - accepting articles, formatting and fixing the language, and submitting it to the journal. Since the authors pay to publish the articles, the company shares the profits with journals that publish the paper.

In 1942, the US Book Republication Program permitted American publishers to reprint "exact reproductions" of Germany's scientific texts without payment; seventy-five years later, the fate of this scientific knowledge forms the basis of a "natural experiment" analysed by Barbara Biasi and Petra Moser.

New national guidelines spell out punishment for plagiarism, fabrication of data and research conclusions, ghostwriting and peer review manipulation.

The European Open Science Cloud, which will support EU science in its global leading role by creating a trusted environment for hosting and processing research data.

Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findings.

The League of European Research Universities has published a roadmap to help universities around the world implement open-science practices.

Wellcome new Open Research Fund supports innovative approaches that enable data, code or other research outputs to be discovered, accessed and reused.

In a paper setting out its negotiating terms, the government calls for a far reaching-science and innovation pact and says it will respect the remit of the European Court of Justice.

In June 2017, PSI was made aware of allegations that members of its staff had submitted an article containing aspects of scientific misconduct to a scientific journal.  A preliminary review by experts showed that the allegations raised were solid.

The Prime Minister makes the strongest commitment yet to "fully associate" the UK with the EU's GBP68bn research programme post-Brexit.

UK’s newly minted unified funding agency has released the first outline of its strategy. The long-awaited document gives the nation’s researchers an insight into how the mega-funding agency - which will command a budget of GBP6 billion (USD8 billion) - will work.

Why do authors continue to cite preprints years after they've been formally published?  A citation is much more than a directional link to the source of a document. It is the basis for a system of rewarding those who make significant contributions to public science.

The AI field is increasingly turning to conference publications and free, open-review websites while shunning traditional outlets - sentiments dramatically expressed in a growing boycott of a high-profile AI journal.

Institutions, research funding bodies and publishers must all work together to change the system in the interest of advancing research, says Steven Inchcoombe.

A meta-analysis combining the most popular university rankings to find out which ones are best, and showing which university offers the best value for the money. Spoiler: Switzerland, for once, is a good deal.

P Shravan Kumar aka Akiraa launched Research Funders, a platform to connect scientists with potential donors who can help fund their research and projects.

Findings of a recent Academy of Management report that sought answers to these questions by surveying its 20,000 members and conducting a selection of in-depth interviews with prominent figures.

With several members departing and new leadership incoming, the National Science Board used much of its May meeting to reflect on how it has ramped up its engagement on policy matters in recent years. One focus of discussion was how the board has increasingly drawn attention to the emergence of China as a global leader in science and engineering.

In order to take steps towards the goal of immediate open access by 2026 set by the Swedish Government, the Bibsam Consortium has after 20 years decided not to renew the agreement with the scientific publisher Elsevier.