Do men and women differ in how positively they frame their research findings and is the positive framing of research is associated with higher downstream citations?

An opportunity for journals and publishers to take the bold step of changing their business model?

Altmetric list of scholarship getting the most online attention shows that authenticity in science, and society more generally, is major theme of the year.

Many scientific organizations struggle with teaching and incentivizing science-communication practices. Here's what they can do differently, says communication researcher Jessica Eise.

Robert Harington explores rumors circulating in recent weeks of an impending US Executive Order focusing on public access to federally funded research and open data.

Scientists use big data to understand what separates winners from losers

Congress is set to approve a major defense bill that would establish two new high-level bodies aimed at preventing foreign governments from unfairly exploiting the U.S.

An explanation of the mandatory provision in the new Copyright Directive that ensures that faithful reproductions of public domain works of visual art cannot be subject to exclusive rights.

The first version of our metadata input schema (a DTD, to be specific) was created in 1999 to capture basic bibliographic information and facilitate matching DOIs to citations. Over the past 20 years the bibliographic metadata we collect has deepened, and we've expanded our schema to include funding information, license, updates, relations, and other metadata. Our schema isn't as venerable as a MARC record or as comprehensive as JATS, but it's served us well.

Quarterly updates on scientific integrity in the US nearly three years into the Trump administration.

Concerns about the threat from the Global North to Latin America's exemplary tradition of open access publishing are understandable but ultimately misplaced.

The report describing the creation of the world’s first gene-edited babies creates an ethical quandary for scientific journals.

What's it like to be work in scholarly communications as a person with a disability - physical or mental?

Growing evidence suggests that the evaluation of researchers’ careers on the basis of narrow definitions of excellence is restricting diversity in academia, both in the development of its labour force and its approaches to address societal challenges. Recommendations are suggested for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

Being able to find, assess and place new research within a field of knowledge, is integral to any research project.

Mosaic, Wellcome's digital platform for long-form journalism, is closing on 10 December 2019.

A group of leading publishers is announcing a major new service to plug leakage, improve discovery and access, fight piracy, compete with ResearchGate, and position their platform for the OA ecosystem.

A visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike.

With more agreements including some form of Open Access, consortia and academic institutions need to monitor the number of Open Access publications, the costs and the value of these agreements.

An insiders' term for scientific malpractice has worked its way into pop culture. Is that a good thing?

cOAlition S endorse a number of strategies to encourage subscription publishers to transition to Open Access.

An overview of some of the background, considerations, and discussions on some of the topics surrounding publishing open access.

Having trouble keeping track of the increasing number of discovery services? Want to learn more about how they work, who are their main users, and how to ensure your repository content is visible in these services? You are invited to participate in a webinar that will feature three of these discovery services.

The University of Bristol announced the creation of a new Chair of Academic Research Quality and Improvement and six associated Fellowships.

Geowalling open content is proposed yet again. As a thought experiment, it is explored what Plan S principles would be compromised by this tactic.

Centuries of female exclusion has meant women's diseases are often missed, misdiagnosed or remain a total mystery.

Funding for blue skies research is falling in favour of work aligned with the government's strategic priorities.

Earlier this fall Dr. Scott Solomon presented the results of a huge heart drug study to an audience of fellow cardiologists in Paris. The presented number 0.059 caused gasps as the audience was looking for something under 0.05.

A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged in basic math tasks, researchers reported.

In order to align incentives with good science, we need to move to a system in which work that is well thought-out, well carried-out, and well communicated – regardless of the ‘story’ it tells – is given the highest reward. Changing what is rewarded will change what is done.