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.

Citizen science is an innovative concept to involve the general public in scientific processes.

Platform for fled scientists and German research institutions.

The bullet 'pointization' of information is making us stupid and irresponsible.

An initiative to incentivise open research practices through peer review.

Crossref will be introducing a new service that tracks activity surrounding a research work from potentially any web source where an event is associated with a DOI.

Data Carpentry workshops teach skills to researchers to enable them to retrieve, view, manipulate, analyze and store their and other’s data in an open and reproducible way in order to extract knowledge from data.

One of Tesla’s predictions peers into the future of society’s changing gender roles and considers how the advent of wireless technology would empower women, liberating us to develop our full intellectual potential repressed by the patriarchy for centuries.

He’s left his tenured job and gone online, solo.

ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research, promoting new and open-source implementations in order to ensure that the original research is reproducible.

A web server to get suggested referees for a manuscript.

Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!

The world's first peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed scientific video journal.

“If civilisation was destroyed, what scientific information would you pass on to the survivors?”

What insights can be gained by looking at the data?

Discover the most talked about and the latest scientific content, sorted by Altmetric scores and topics.

Berlin, 8/9 Nov. 2015.