Lab heads should let junior researchers take their projects with them when they start their own labs — it drives innovation and discovery, argues Ben A.

The ballooning costs of attending high-end academic conferences are excluding early-career researchers. But we need their fresh perspectives

When you think of innovation, you also may think of patents and profits. But two Swiss researchers argue that we should be focusing more on people and places.

The idea that American workers are being left in the dust because they lack technological savvy does not stand up to scrutiny. Our focus should be on coordination and communication between workers and employers.

For the record, I do peer reviews! For free!

Reviewing is an implicit part of vaguely-defined jobs.

The recent attempt by China to censor scholarship points to a growing set of challenges in information dissemination. Blaming the publisher obscures these issues.

Rather than repealing or replacing the impact factor, its producers should rename it to reflect its intended function more accurately.

Consortium hopes to make all German-authored papers free to read by paying annual fee.

A lack of recognition for the value of failure holds back creative risk-taking in science.

The meaningless tasks and faux-business strategies prioritised by British universities have skewed their real role, writes André Spicer

Although the popular blacklist of predatory publishers is gone, the suspect journals they produce are not. 

The profit motive is fundamentally misaligned with core values of academic life, potentially corroding ideals like unfettered inquiry, knowledge-sharing, and cooperative progress.

A Nobel Prize winning physicist considers taking his research elsewhere, while applications from foreign researchers have plummeted.

Don't be taken in by the memo’s faux-reasonable tone.

Greater collaboration leading to the growing informal use and exchange of free material between researchers.

For years university researchers have complained that the publishing giant has driven up the costs of journals. Now, as data-sharing becomes more valuable, the company’s shifting focus is raising new concerns.

As a new French report highlights, early-career researchers face significant challenges landing permanent academic positions—but there may also be some rays of hope.

Oliver Rosten believes the postdoctoral system played a role in his friend’s suicide. Disseminating that opinion in a scientific journal took perseverance.

Kamila Markram, head of open science platform Frontiers, argues research funders must do much more to speed openness in science.

Research labs should take a page from the tech companies, by Ijad Madisch, founder of ResearchGate.

To conserve Earth's remarkable species, we must also defend the importance of science and scientific integrity.

It’s time for a global movement that pushes academic research beyond journal paywalls so it makes a difference in the world.

Giving researchers the data skills they need to share, review, and validate each other’s work, writes Erin Becker.

Science should abandon its assembly-line mentality and rebuild for quality, not quantity, argues Michele Pagano.

Publishing platforms from The Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the European Commission alter Open Access.

It turns out that defining "raw" is a little trickier than it might seem.

The European Commission has offered funding for an internet for research data. But it’s unclear what it expects to get for its money.

Open data is increasingly common, but when it comes to tackling global disease, more needs to be done.

On the potential disconnect between what researchers want to research and what funders want to fund.