Releasing lab-built open source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers.

Despite progress, many physical scientists from sexual and gender minorities experience exclusion or harassment at work, finds UK survey.

This graphic is an adaptation of Kramer and Bosman's Rainbow of open science practices and Stanley and Vandegrift's Periodic Table of Digital Research Resources. It is meant to inspire and invoke ongoing discussions about what a community- or academy-owned research infrastructure might begin to look like.

This factsheet of the Royal Society explains why leaving the EU with "no-deal" is a bad deal for science.

#ShowYourStripes visuals adorn ties, cufflinks, and the stage of a German music festival.

In its series Open Access News & Views, Delta Think recently published an analysis of the DOAJ. DOAJ very much enjoyed the piece and found it to be one of the most well-informed articles written about them. They now comment on a few of the issues raised in the article.

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is increasingly being used as a benchmark to determine whether a journal is fully OA, most notably as part of both the original and recently revised Plan S guidelines. This month we take a look at the DOAJ and consider how it compares to other sources for evaluating fully OA status.

What is next for reproducibility? Research communities will need to develop standards of practice, institutions will adopt formal policies, and funding agencies may look to support more infrastructure and tools to enable reproducibility. 

Plan S will also influence how learned societies, the organisations tasked with representing academics in particular disciplines, operate, as many currently depend on revenues from journal subscriptions to cross-subsidise their activities. 

On the latest Recode Decode, MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito says we need to resist the urge to oversimplify the problems we're solving.

Open Humans highlights how a community-centric ecosystem can be used to aggregate personal data from various sources, as well as how these data can be used by academic and citizen scientists through practical, iterative approaches to sharing that strive to balance considerations with participant autonomy, inclusion, and privacy.

The University of Melbourne’s Visualise Your Thesis competition (VYT) challenges graduate researchers to come up with an “elevator pitch”, in the form of a succinct and attractive audio-visual, digital object to distil the central theme of their research.

In the fight battle against disinformation, the legal fight could have implications for public opinion.

A Dutch conference discussed the current rewards and incentives system and thought about the evaluation criteria of the future.

The world's largest study into how people around the world think and feel about science and major health challenges.

US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman is donating £150m to fund humanities research.

Open access publishing still profits publishers, with little added value for researchers.

Weakened permafrost in Canadian Arctic a further sign that global climate crisis accelerating faster than scientists had feared.

Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software.

Stress and long working hours are regrettably common among early-career researchers, reveals a survey by the group the Young Academy of Europe.

We are scientists from various disciplines and we will go on strike on 14 June 2019. Women* are systematically underrepresented to a great degree at Swiss higher education institutions. 

The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure. Here's the first account of what happened to Xifeng Wu.

Chefs verordnen gerne agile Arbeitstechniken. Eine Analyse zeigt, dass sie diese aber selbst nie anwenden würden.

The history of science has often seen women's work overlooked and their credit stolen.

The Open Library of Humanities has demonstrated a model for high-quality open access publishing, without Article Processing Charges. We asked Chief Executive Officer Martin Eve whether the Library could serve as inspiration for Learned Societies in a post-Plan S world.

A new Research England funded project is set to help universities, researchers, libraries and publishers to make more, and better, use of open access book publishing.

IEEE to provide more high-quality options for authors and researchers.

The purpose of peer review is often portrayed as being a simple ‘objective’ test of the soundness or quality of a research paper. However, it also performs other functions primarily through linking and developing relationships between networks of researchers. 

Funders should award competitive grants directly to journals to underwrite the costs of open access, urges Adriano Aguzzi.

Seven researchers discuss the challenges posed by science's embrace of one global language.