ECR-driven initiative launching in 2019 to collectively boycott commercial publishers and return scholar communication to the academic community.

DFG-funded software provides different online services to extract and segment citations. Moreover, other online tools are available to create more gold standard data.

Top tips for principal investigators to help junior scientists navigate the travails of teamwork.

A fresh mapping of open-science tools for the researcher workflow reveals numerous gaps and opportunities for software solutions in the name of scientific progress.

Support for publication of reviewer reports has been mounting as part of a greater effort to inform the discussion on peer review practice.

This really gives a new meaning to the "paper of record."

Decision-makers need input from researchers on issues involving science and society.

Biomedical funders and ASAPbio call on journals to sign a pledge to make reviewers’ anonymous comments part of the official scientific record.

Fitibit's wristbands have collected 150 billion hours' worth of heart-rate data from people around the world. For the first time, the company offered a look inside that data, to see how lifestyle, location, age, and gender affects our health and longevity.

But academics say government incentives to publish are part of the problem.

A guide to help search more easily for open access articles.

British Heart Foundation award is one of the largest single grants in medical research.

A new seminar at Michigan helped doctoral students explore nonfaculty jobs and helped a professor learn how to teach about them.

Interactive monadic exploration of the world of open science.

A strategic kick-off workshop on Reproducibility and Replication with the goal to define the optimal set-up of the activities of the newly opened Center for Reproducible Science (CRS) at the University of Zurich.

Genetic analysis uncovers a direct descendant of two different groups of early humans.

Speakers inadvertently prepare presentations for themselves rather than their audiences. A few mental exercises can help presenters to avoid this pitfall.

Dimensions by Digital Science (owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing) is a new database that includes not only data about publications and their natural associated citation graph, but also awarded grant data, patent data and clinical data and altmetric attention data.

Announcing R4R to connect authors to peers

The campaign may have increased misperceptions that the science on the safety of vaccines isn’t settled - as is the case - but rather subject to debate.

Are you in the process of starting an open access journal, or are you planning to transition an existing journal to an OA publishing model? In this post we break out all the steps to get an OA publication up and running.

A look at the journey psychology has made toward becoming a robust and mature science.

The Global State of Young Scientists Africa project investigates the challenges that shape the career trajectories of young African scientists.

The Global State of Young Scientists Africa project investigates the challenges that shape the career trajectories of young African scientists.

Just like judges and politicians, researchers may overstate their confidence in a claim. To truly assess their confidence, something needs to be on the line.

Find out how scholarly articles are cited on Wikipedia with WikiCiteVis.

Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative's approach to accelerating science and curing disease.

Mind the Gap is a role-playing game designed as a structure for dialogues which examine the gender gap.

Information about Blockchain for Science, Research and Knoweldge creation. The decentralized future of science. Blockchain bears the potential to make science more effective, make research continous, free data and fix the reproducibility crisis in science.

The benefits and challenges of three approaches to scientific meetings.