Michael Eisen recently announced his new website, which features a new publication list that doesn’t mention journal names anywhere.

What everyone should know about cut-and-paste genetics.

What's the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?

We can't avoid making snap decisions about other people. Or can we?

One hundred years after Albert Einstein made public his theory of general relativity, many of us struggle to understand it.

Introducing a brand new concept in academic publishing and scholarly communication, combining the best features of journals and books.

Meta Research Innovation Center at Stanford conference 2015 presentations on data transparency, open science, and reproducibility.

OpenCon2015 posters and talks on innovations in science communication and open science.

The International Council for Science announced Thursday the addition of a "Seek Funding" step to the scientific method.

Lesser-known and junior colleagues helped the great physicist to piece together his general theory of relativity, explain Michel Janssen and Jürgen Renn.

A Reddit "Ask Me Anything" series on research reproducibility.

Single-observation, story-free, triple-blinded peer-review publication model aims to be the next-generation science journal.

Semantic Scholar comes from centre backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

DIY, accessible, tech-based solutions for people around the world

ORCID has announced the launch of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and DataCite.

"The internet has changed everything and people are simply no longer willing to pay $30 to read a paper from 1987."

Essay triggers lively arguments over how basic science should be funded.

OpenCon 2015 will feature leading speakers from across the Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data movements including Mike Eisen (PLoS) and Jimmy Wales (Founder Wikimedia).

A timeline showing the major milestones in 10 years of Open Access at the Wellcome Trust.

A PLOS podcast dedicated to interviews with innovators and thought leaders on scholarly publishing developments, the future of academia and the changing experiences of scientists.

Why is blue sky science being defunded?

Cloud Datalab is a powerful Interactive tool created to explore, analyze and visualize data with a single click on Google Cloud Platform.

Impact Factor is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) is a free, easy-to-use online database that opens up information about research organisations around the world to data scientists, developers and innovators within academic and commercial organisations.

Once a paper has its perceived value raised by being cited, it’s likely to get cited again.

The question has actually been addressed in the scientific literature and the data don’t seem to support this assumption.

Racists, frauds, and misogynists: meet the rogues’ gallery of Nobel Prize winners.

This application let you see the Altmetric Score metrics of works on your browser when you click the bookmarklet in ORCID Record pages.

This is a shared database that grew out of the "101 innovations in scholarly communication" project.

A 10-year series of annual meetings where high-level stakeholder representatives work together to improve the future of how research information gets published, shared and accessed.