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.

A century and a half has seen momentous changes in science. But evidence and transparency are more important than ever before.

With better questions, many reproducibility problems will fall away, says Paul Smaldino.

In practice the way in which research impacts and influences policy and society is often thought to be a rational, ordered and linear process. Whilst this might represent a ‘common sense’ understanding of research impact, this post reflects on how upending the primacy of data and embracing complexity can lead to a more nuanced and effective understanding of research impact. 

One of the foundational aims of the open access movement, set out in the Budapest Open Access Initiative, was to provide access to research not only to scholars, but to “teachers, students and other curious minds” and in so doing “enrich education”. However almost two decades on from the declaration access to the research literature for educational purposes remains limited. 

Container platforms let researchers run each other's software - and check the results.

Can science continue to fulfil its social contract and to reach new horizons by advancing on the same footing into the future? Or does something need to shift?