Research shows that students, especially boys, benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women.

European and national research funders are expected to commit all researchers to granting open access to their publications as of 2020. The SNSF supports this Plan S. However, it is not in a position to add its signature to the plan at present.

Scientists warn the devil is in detail of the European Commission’s latest open access plan, while publishers argue prohibiting researchers from submitting their work to certain journals is a threat to academic freedom.

There are many thousands of data repositories on the web, providing access to millions of datasets. To enable easy access to this data, Google launched Dataset Search.

A well-crafted set of guidelines and advice can save time, reassure trainees and promote a positive lab culture, argues Mariam Aly.

Richard Poynder views a documentary on the tug of war over paywalls in scholarly publishing.

But an investigation confirmed that the study was flawed.

All 10 senior editors of the open-access journal Nutrients resigned last month, alleging that the publisher, the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), pressured them to accept manuscripts of mediocre quality and importance.

Skills matter. How you learned them may not.

Icons for websites and organisations related to academia that are often missing from mainstream font packages. It can be used by itself, but its primary purpose is to be used as a supplementary package alongside a larger icon set.

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.