Study was commissioned by Universities UK's Open Access Co-ordination Group.

What if every creative endeavor had to go through Peer Review? Indira M Raman considers the possibility.

For the benefits of digital medicine to be fully realized, we need not only to find a shared home for personal health data but also to give individuals the right to own them.

Insights into the most prevalent issues hindering the development of open access.

Performance-related pay causes the best academics to cluster together, evidence from Germany suggests.

This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining by academic researchers.

View and perspectives on Open Science.

As interest in and use of article-level metrics grows, it is critical to ensure secure and reliable data that is trustworthy and can be used by all.

Proposed Twitter-based altmetric would treat retweets like citations.

At Chaos Communication Camp 2015, a researcher explained how to jump paywalls, obtain academic research and freely share that research without getting arrested.

Poor countries often complain that their best minds are draining away—and for the most part they are right. The poorer the country, the larger the proportion of inventors who push off.

This paper asks the question: do people with different levels of research productivity and identification as a researcher think of research differently?

Science hackathons can help academics, particularly those in the early stage of their careers, to build collaborations and write research proposals.

[21]New analysis of interdisciplinary collaboration across the UK research landscape highlights important questions about how we organise, fund and assess research.

Results from a survey on perceptions of data sharing, discovery, and metrics.

Laureates produce fewer papers but with higher average citations, more sole-authored papers both before and after winning the Prize, and have a lower number of coauthors across their entire careers than the matched group.

Facebook likes only predict citations in the psychological area but not in the non-psychological area of business or in the field of life sciences.

In the quest for the research money it is more important how researchers build their collaboration network than what publications they produce and whether they are cited.

[33]Misconduct | Males are overrepresented among life science researchers committing scientific misconduct

[32]Crowdfunding | Is crowdfunding a viable source of clinical trial research funding?

This leaflet presents some initial results of the She Figures 2015 data collection. It provides data on the proportions of women and men amongst top level graduates and researchers.

The difficulty in replicating research findings has been at the center of the attention in the specialized and lay press for a number of years and is more recently attracting the attention of the Administration and Congress.

The single figure publication is a novel, efficient format by which to communicate scholarly advances. It will serve as a forerunner of the nano-publication, a modular unit of information critical for machine-driven data aggregation and knowledge integration.

Perception that time should be spent improving research prowess.

The time has come for the life scientists, funding agencies, and publishers to discuss how to communicate new findings in a way that best serves the interests of the public and scientific community.

This study uses a bibliometric method to examine the relationship between two journal characteristics during 2009–2013: the article processing charges and the percentage of published articles based on work that is supported by grant-funded articles.

Simplified processes save time and money that could be reallocated to actual research. Funding agencies should consider streamlining their application processes.

Better communication between labs may resolve many reproducibility problems, according to [28]report.

Report concludes that the UK government must simplify the “excessively complex” schemes designed to assist collaboration between industry and universities.

Citations, while useful, miss many important kinds of impacts, and that the increasing scholarly use of online tools like Mendeley, Twitter, and blogs may allow us to measure hidden impacts.