Elsevier, a major scientific publisher, has a 36 percent profit margin - bigger than Apple, Amazon, and Google. And it's just one of many. But Sci-Hub could change all that by releasing every article for free.

It helps to choose the right scholarly meeting and to swallow your discomfort with schmoozing.

12 steps, relevant to both first-time peer reviewers and those keen to brush up on their skills.

The difference between full counting and fractional counting of publiations should inform our interpretation of the headlines.

Scholars love to hate the journal impact factor, but how flawed is it?

A group of fourteen authors came together in February 2018 at the TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology) in Hannover to create an open, living handbook on Open Science training.

Gender and the ethics of care in the neoliberal accelerated academy.

The No Women No Panel Campaign initiated by Commissioner Mariya Gabriel has been supported and reiterated by several of her colleagues from the European Commission. She committed to ensuring at least one other woman is part of panels she is invited to speak at.

The plan for the EU’s next research Framework programme will be presented at the end of May, according to the European Commission’s incoming R&D chief Jean-Eric Paquet.

A report from a short project using natural language processing and machine learning on open-access content to understand what lies beneath a citation.

It seems that CRISPR technology may indeed be all that it promises.

Making scientific publications free to read is a big change in a world dominated by subscription journals. Why is it so important that science publications become open access?

With permanent academic jobs scarce, the government wants industry to utilize young talent. 

Looking at of the gender gap in 50 years of publications in astronomy and astrophysics.

5 technologies under development at the IBM Research labs.

Science-related Facebook pages draw millions of followers but 'news you can use' posts or ads outnumber ones about scientific discoveries.

How chance determines h-index’s outcome.

An experimental tool for self-publishing on the peer-to-peer web

When it comes to impact assessment, there are things that are easy to measure, and then there are things that we care about. On the divide through the examples of two recent online initiatives from the Canadian federal government.

To beat the stiff competition, highlight your skills in collaboration, teamwork and meeting deadlines.

Amid the sea of male faces -- 37 of them -- was a lone woman, her face partially obscured. She was listed as "not identified."

But female LGBQ students are more likely than their heterosexual peers to stay in STEM, a survey of college seniors across the United States reveals.

Accenture study shows 62% of teenage girls regret not studying science, technology, engineering and maths subjects for longer.

The drug albuterol can provide fast-acting relief to the wheezing and shortness of breath that often accompany an asthma attack but it often fails minority children.

Researcher-centric communication, collaboration and attribution platform powered by blockchain - with proof-of-existence and real-time, permanent, citing for all scientific and scholarly works.

A short list of common issues that can delay a submission. Check your manuscript for these issues, and and then read our advice for how to fix them.

Following the shutdown of Beall’s list, blacklists that warn against questionable publishers are in demand.

After Jeffrey Beall took down his list of predatory journals in January 2017 in order to avoid continued harassment and threats, a small group of scholars and information professionals decided to anonymously rebuild and resurrect that list.

Researchers can submit their work directly from bioRxiv to F1000Research offering more choice and flexibility to authors in deciding when to set preprints to under invited peer review.

A series of talks on robust research practices in psychology and the biomedical sciences, held in Oxford in 2017. Organized by Dorothy Bishop, Ana Todorovic, Caroline Nettekoven and Verena Heise.