New funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support research and analysis into the hidden costs of open infrastructure. Hiring is now open for IOI's first Research Data Analyst.

Preprints play a crucial role in open science but offer an opportunity to be gamed. Fictitious authorship in preprints show that open science needs checks and we need to collaborate to govern Open Science.

A short overview of the different color scales (diverging, sequential, categorical) that you can use to visualize your data.

Dozens of countries are backing an effort that would protect 30 percent of Earth's land and water. Native people, often among the most effective stewards of nature, have been disregarded, or worse, in the past.

Congratulations on the successful defense of your dissertation. This is a significant accomplishment, and you should have the opportunity to savor ...

We are exploring forms of engagement between academic research and governments: what has been tried, by whom, to what effect, and using which mechanisms.

Find out more about the current edition of the French national program.

cOAlition S values the opinion of all researchers. We want to understand if and how Plan S affects your publishing practices and your views on Open Access.

Tempted to try your hand at a new technique? These tools will help you on your way.

The process of setting up a funding agency for high-risk research in the United Kingdom is under way. But questions remain about how it will benefit science.

We can learn from our failures.

An oily, 100-nanometer-wide bubble of genes has killed more than two million people and reshaped the world. Scientists don't quite know what to make of it.

The OA Switchboard has started to develop from an initial seed of an idea into an active community initiative with a broad spectrum of stakeholders committed to making it a success.

In the past few months, we've seen large commercial publishers express renewed concern that sharing author manuscripts in open repositories threatens the scholarly record because multiple versions undermine the "version of record". However, establishing and maintaining relationships to other versions of articles or research assets has already been shown to be successful in disciplinary and scholarly communities.

Unpacking each word -- rights, retention, and strategy -- enables understanding what this policy is and how it functions within the Plan S compliance framework.

Finding and reusing train-the-trainer materials in Social Sciences and Humanities: The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit The Training Discovery Toolkit is an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers of different disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can use to find materials for re-use in their own training activities.

A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them.

Preprint servers have become an indispensable part of scholarly publishing. The next step is learning how to embrace them.

English departments rethink what to call themselves in light of how diverse they've become.

Data sharing was a core principle that led to the success of the Human Genome Project 20 years ago. Now scientists are struggling to keep information free.

Misuse of climate models could pose a growing risk to financial markets by giving investors a false sense of certainty over how the physical impacts of climate change will play out.

Nearly a year into the pandemic, Facebook now aims to take down misinformation on vaccines overall - not just COVID-19 vaccines.

Scopus has stopped adding content from most of the flagged titles, but the analysis highlights how poor-quality science is infiltrating literature.

A new report for UN Women shows that women have seen a larger increase in unpaid work than men due to COVID-19.

Models suggest that the race for quick results and the importance of being the first to publish is leading to lower scientific standards.

Access to information, and libraries as institutions that deliver it, are key to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Nobel Laureate Robert Lefkowitz shares 10 golden rules gleaned from a half century of mentoring hundreds of research trainees.

Thanks to the Brexit deal, it is likely that UK researchers will gain access to the Horizon Europe programme and EU research funding. Will this suffice for UK higher education institutions to return to pre-Brexit participation levels?

From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.

What are the pitfalls of using AI as a citation evaluation tool?