6 arguments are presented that articulate why cOAlition S organisations will not financially support the hybrid model of publishing.

A look at a session from last week's CHORUS Forum that discussed new open access business models -- what does it take to make them work?

At a time of fast-paced science and rampant misinformation, can we trust the non-peer-reviewed literature?

We urgently need to create a high-profile campaign devoted to transforming universities in the way required so that humanity may learn how to make social progress toward a better, wiser, more civilized, enlightened world.

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If we want real public understanding of new findings, we must also open up peer review.

This post explores how scholarly publishing should relate to scholarly communication. Ostensibly aligned, publishing and communication have diverged. Some processes involved in scholarly publishing are getting in the way of optimal scholarly communication, as the present pandemic amply reveals. 

COVID-19 has transformed the world in the last 12 months. Communicating data has been a central part of the pandemic. Here are some of the most important lessons we can take from this period.

It is extraordinary that the museum is receiving funding from a fossil fuel giant for an exhibition on, of all things, the climate, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.

Like all OA funding models, subscribe-to-open solves some problems while creating others. Some of the downsides are pretty fundamental.

Understanding these tiny organisms could be key to tackling threats such as coronavirus, but new research shows how little we know

Merging metrics for the REF, KEF and TEF would free up time for academics to become researchers once again, says Robert MacIntosh.

COVID-19 will be remembered for many things, including the pandemic that changed science communication, argues the Editor-in-Chief of Science journals.

Renke Siems on user tracking on science publisher platforms, its implications for their individual users and ways to face this issue

The Psychological Science Accelerator could be the future of the field around the globe - if they can sustain it.

There have been many reports but little action: the UK's university science departments have a serious diversity problem - experts explain what needs to change.

Researchers who receive federal help consistently fail to report their results to the public. The government should hold them accountable.

Analysis reveals three ways to boost green investment and achieve a resilient recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

A treaty might help countries to prepare for the next pandemic - but first they must study what went wrong during this one.

This author asks: Can scientists who are so meticulous in preparing their papers and so generous with their time in reviewing them for free not find better ways to advance science than relying on profiteering journals?

The pandemic is being used as a pretext to push unproven artificial-intelligence tools into workplaces and schools.

We hope that the scale and reach of the Covid-19 pandemic will realise sustained change in the research culture, with openness and collaboration firmly embedded.

Study of researchers indicates that a preprint or accepted manuscript can substitute for the version of record in some use cases but not all.

We fear and yearn for "the singularity." But it will probably never come.

Troubling narrative: the mere existence of perverse incentives is a valid and sufficient reason to knowingly behave in an antisocial way, just as long as one first acknowledges the existence of those perverse incentives. 

His claim that 'greed' was the driver behind the UK's vaccine success ignores the huge role of state funding, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato.

Rankings are artificial zero-sum games. Artificial because they force a strict hierarchy upon universities. Artificial also because it is not realistic that a university can only improve its reputation for performance exclusively at the expense of other universities’ reputations.

Research software infrastructure is critical for accelerating science, and yet, these digital public goods are often unsustainably funded. Solving this problem requires an appreciation of the intrinsic value of research software outputs, and greater investment of time and effort into effectively funding maintenance of software at scale.