If your institution won’t break down barriers for you, do it yourself.

The Horizon 2020 programme is shifting its focus.

Golden OA creates a conflict of interest: in a situation where the number of scientists is larger than the number of available positions, both journals and scientists benefit from publishing as many articles as possible.

Use the Montreal Protocol to manage controversial work intended to limit global warming, urges Stephen O. Andersen.

This Thanksgiving, we bring you four portraits of immigrants in tech—from the C-Suite to the gig economy.

While green and gold open access have been put forward as two worthy emperors, it is time to conclude that they are unclothed.

Creating a culture of replication takes prizes, grants and magnanimity — as well as publications.

Early career researchers face a cruel world these days. Even though they are an increasingly diverse cohort, they are still generally imagined as young, full-time academics without significant outside commitments.

Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, has called for political leaders to speak more about science and innovation to connect people with the life-changing research that is funded by their taxes and has the potential to combat urgent global problems.

High-risk, high-reward ideas in areas such as AI, blockchain and synthetic biology are typical contenders for support from the EU’s new Innovation Council.

The accusations against the Hollywood producer have prompted frank conversations about sexual misconduct. But it will still take a lot to shift how higher education treats such cases, experts say.

On the important role of professional medical writers in improving the quality of reports on clinical trials.

For the cost of cutting corporate income taxes, the U.S. could provide universal pre-K and make tuition free at public colleges for nonaffluent students.

The independent High-Level Group of Innovators recommends bringing all relevant EU funding schemes into a single, fit-for-purpose 'one-stop-shop' for innovation financing.

Professor Aled Edwards asks why we need an Intellectual Property law.

A new system must build cross-sector collaboration, lower barriers to working together, and create excitement and tangible know-how to attract investment.

It’s clearly not open to all if scholars are required to pay to publish their results.

SciComm: Why it is essential, and how we can do it better.

National initiatives that track people, rather than papers, will lead to better science in the United States.

Last week another nonprofit platform called ScholarlyHub announced its plans for a site where researchers can also exchange ideas and work—if they pay a subscription fee.

The importance of addressing researchers’ recognition and reward structures, arguing it is time to move to a system that uses metrics and indicators that incentivise the types of behaviours that are good for research and researchers.

Genius is a male trait, it was widely believed in the 1940s.

Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is eager to see Gates Open Research match the performance of Wellcome Open Research.

The interests of the legacy publishers cannot co-exist with the ideals of the Open Access movement.

Information manipulation is not new, yet everything is different. How do governments, preprints, algorithms, and our own responsibilities intersect? Where does peer review come in now?

How do evolving forms of digital scholarship fit into the current landscape and what are the implications for publishers?

Science could benefit from more reporting of null findings, even if the reports were briefer and had less detail than would be needed for peer review.

Recently, I have worked with a number of professional services firms committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. By Iris Bohnet.

Researchers should recognize communities that feel over-researched and under-rewarded.

Ideally, we want science and scholarship to be not only available to the general public, but also comprehensible to them. But the challenges to doing so are real, and may vary both by discipline and by study type.