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?

A UK election has been called for the 12 December. That means the scramble is on for the political parties to pull together a manifesto that will capture the imagination and lead to votes.

A graduate student's suicide at UW Madison is a devastating cautionary tale about abusive lab environments.

The Harvard professor on science and scepticism - and why climate deniers have run out of excuses.

From all too scarce, to professionalized, the ethics of research is now everybody's business, argues Sarah Franklin.

There's been an extensive campaign to create distrust on everything from vaccines to climate change. Here's why you should trust science.

In the overlay publishing model, a journal performs refereeing services, but it doesn’t publish articles on its website. Rather, the journal’s website links to final article versions hosted on an online repository. Some editors share why they chose to publish their journals via the arXiv overlay model and how they believe overlay journals will contribute to greater equity in OA.

Current research trends resemble the early 21st century’s financial bubble. Let’s imagine what might happen if the rules of professional science evolved such that scientists were incentivized to publish as many papers as they could and if those who published many papers of poor scientific rigor were rewarded over those who published fewer papers of higher rigor?