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An argument that Coalition members should favour, both in words and via their spending decisions, community-controlled, no-author-fee journals over commercially owned journals charging APCs, in order to give due consideration to the non-commercial elements of the scholarly publishing ecosystem.
Researchers have been left without access to new papers as libraries and the major publisher fail to agree on subscription deals.
The Center for Open Science (COS) has been selected to participate in DARPA’s new program Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE).
A high-ranking EU civil servant leading the administrative wing of the European Research Council (ERC) announced his early retirement to staff on Monday, citing policy disputes.
A project to assess the reproducibility of findings in biomedical science by researchers based in Brazil has been published.
Why some scientists choose to forgo promising careers abroad to return to their countries of birth.
Two years into the Trump administration the damage done to science is significant but it would have been far worse without thousands of scientists and their allies calling out attacks on science and detailing the consequences of these attacks for public health and safety.
Everyone appears to be behind open access, but scratch the surface and you'll find that it's something of a touchy subject in academia, says Rachael Pells.
The recently published guidance for the implementation of Plan S offers welcome new details on how full and immediate Open Access to research publications would be achieved under this new initiative.
Over the past year, we've fundamentally changed how we produce graphics.
Making science engaging is vital work, but fraught with challenges. How do you stay relevant in your local community? How do you ensure activities are designed in a way that places the needs and preferences of multiple target audiences at their centre? How do you find new collaborators and effectively expand your network? If you work for a science engagement organisation and need some support or just a little direction, this quick start guide to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) will help.
Predatory conferences (conferences promoted to fraudulently make money from attendance fees) are becoming an increasingly common part of academic life. This post presents the Think. Check. Attend. initiative, which provides academics with an easy to use checklist to ascertain if a conference is legitimate or predatory.
The ecidence movmeent must respond to the ‘politics of distrust’. We cannot carry on regardless.
Facebook's research app shows big tech can't be trusted to conduct research on its users. To get real answers about how tech impacts us, social media firms need to give their data to external scientists.
Data Availability Statements are a powerful tool in promoting data sharing, but what does it take to include them in a journal workflow?
As the chase for new elements slows, scientists focus on deepening their understanding of the superheavy ones they already know.
Opinion: Black scientists are in the best position to understand what is so broken about the ideas of Watson and his army.
Academics who offer their books free online reach many more readers and are cited slightly more often. Surprisingly enough, it has little effect on the sale of paper editions, positive or negative.
The body's microbial community may influence the brain and behavior, perhaps even playing a role in dementia, autism and other disorders.
Clarivate Analytics' Institute for Scientific Information Launches Global Research Report titled Profiles Not Metrics.
A response from Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at the Wellcome Trust, to UCL’s “Response to Plan S”.
Science and scholarship are critical to improving our lives and solving the world’s most intractable problems. The communication of research, a vital step in the research process, should be efficient, effective and fulfill the core values of scholarship.
Laboratory heads need training, support and accountability to connect people across cultures.
Plan U: A proposal to achieve universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates.
Quantitative performance ratings are ubiquitous in modern organizations — from businesses to universities — yet there is substantialevidence of bias against women in suchratings. This study examines how gender inequalities in evaluations dependon the design of the tools used to judge merit.
Brigitte Van Tiggelen and Annette Lykknes spotlight female researchers who discovered elements and their properties.
The newish 'quarterly review of science' sometimes muddies the waters between science and political ideology. It is funded by Peter Thiel.
In 2014, microbiologists began a study that they hope will continue long after they're dead.
Wiley claim they are committed to moving towards greater openness and reproducibility of research, including increasing transparency in peer review
