DFG presents 2016 Annual Report /-- 'Best knowledge-driven research -- supported by broad political and public trust' -- Annual meeting in Halle concluded.

A guide intended to help research funders develop open policies that advance their organizational values.

Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research

How can medical research charities show the difference they make?

A simulation-based evaluation of statistical tests on publication bias.

The history and present diversity of peer review practices.

The British Academy and the Royal Society are carrying out a project examining new uses of data and their implications, and reviewing the data governance landscape.

A survey of current practice in Germany and Austria

A Large-Scale Empirical Study Based on ResearcherID Data

How academic users understand, discover, and utilize reference resources.

The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research.

A set of good computing practices that every researcher can adopt, regardless of their current level of computational skill.

Taking stock of the current state of interoperability across the PID landscape and to discuss the next steps towards an integrated research record.

This report provides an assessment of whether alternative finance has the potential to help Europe address the problem of access to finance for innovative companies and bridge the gap in terms of access to risk capital, and if EU action is needed to support development of the sector.

Once again, the FWF is making the publication costs spent in 2016 (esp. for Open Access) publically available.

Paper providing a vision transcending the current publishing paradigm.

On the steady fall in the number of younger US basic scientists.

How can we make the most of open practices in research, education and skills?

Dutch agenda presenting 140 overarching scientific questions as a result of a unique bottom-up initiative, driven by the general public and a vast number of organisations in the Netherlands.

Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.

Introducing Wide-Open, a system that identifies large number of overdue datasets.

Study underway tests whether black and women applicants for NIH grants face discrimination.

Peer review is the gold standard for scientific communication, but its ability to guarantee the quality of published research remains difficult to verify.

Diversity stats across the Royal Society’s activities.

Peter Suber and the Open Access Movement

If we want science to serve society and the planet, then we all must take responsibility for institutional innovation in five key areas.

A SPARC analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies across Europe.

The time that you’re absolutely sick of saying it is about the time that your target audience has heard it for the first time.

Libraries can survive these times of technological upheaval, but they’re going to have to change–and fast.

How several free software tools have fundamentally upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire workflow more transparent and streamlined.