Elizabeth Gadd takes a look at the contradictions between scholarly culture and copyright culture, and the cognitive dissonance created.

Have you ever crossed international borders with protein crystals in a big Styrofoam hand luggage, set your hair on fire, or forgotten to use the extractor and nearly gassed your co-workers?

Sure, it’s happened to all of us — the invitation to be keynote speaker at a conference you’ve never heard of or an invitation to sit on an editorial board for a journal with a name you don’t recognize.

Students taking Stanford’s Advanced Topics in Networking class have to select a networking research paper and reproduce a result from it as part of a three-week pair project.

Scholarly profile pages constructed from queries to information in Wikidata.

Encouraging researchers to post their outputs as preprints.

On the slow but steady rise of Open Access.

Michele Marchetto of Wikimedia Italia shares the story of how they helped authors to make their open access articles more widely available.

The opportunities and experiences of blogging as part of teaching.

The Case of the EPA, John Konkus, and Climate Change.

Maybe there isn't a peer-review 'crisis,' at least in terms of quantity.

The author line provides no adequate information on the qualitative contribution of the single persons listed.

In analyzing the marketplace of scholarly publishers and scientific workflow providers, a key strategic question is: Who owns Digital Science?

Two scientists set out to animate how sperm moves. They ended up making a major discovery.

Last week's Transforming Research conference in Baltimore, MD, gathered a range of speakers across the academic and professional spectrum.

How many scientists does it take to change the world?

Canadian Science Publishing's Mary Seligy provides a primer on standards, XML and JATS4R, which is driving improved reusability of scholarly content.

100+ volunteers sharing their knowledge about Open Science and contributing to what they see as an extremely important issue in nowadays and future science.

Taxpayers sometimes have to pay three times for any scientific article. 

If you’re a researcher writing software, this guide will show you how to make the work you share on GitHub citable.

Global comparisons of previous social and economic upheavals suggest that what is to come depends on where you are now, argues Robert C. Allen.

Tackling unconscious bias is a major challenge for journals and the rest of the scientific community.

A new study highlights the variety of productivity trajectories among faculty members in computer science.

Philanthropy’s no replacement for crucial government science funding, but that message can get lost amid the high-profile gifts. Some science funders are now backing a push to protect federal funding.

A "completely confusing statement" in a gazette notification has scientists wondering which of their papers will and won't be considered towards their promotions in the future.

Everybody talks about Blockchain these days, but why should we consider this technology when thinking about Open Scholarship?

My PhD thesis research was a dead end, but that’s why it was important.

Unsurprisingly, many — if not most — scientists aren’t great at science communication.

AI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually happens in neurons and nerve fibers.

Opening up science so that all stages of the process can benefit from better interaction and communication and to provide examples for early career scientists writing grants.