On perversity in academic rewards

The goal is to deliver an open-source submission and peer-review platform

Congratulations to Irene Hames, the winner of Publons' inaugural Sentinel Award - for outstanding advocacy, innovation or contribution to scholarly peer review.

Here's a brief summary of some key takeaways from this year's Peer Review Congress, held every four years. A talk by the Swiss National Science Foundation was especially enjoyed.

Transparency in Review, and other innovations - Research in progress blog

What kind of peer review is developing to evaluate long-form digital scholarship? A view from AAUP press editors.

With science needing to always be reviewed to be sure it is correct, using Post-publication peer review is useful for scientific accuracy.

These tips will help you maximize your productivity.

Words of Wisdom from Those Who Publish (and Do Not Perish).

A novel text-mining strategy that identifies articles producing biological data. 

Like many others in the scholarly community, we were very disappointed to learn about the recent acquisition by Elsevier of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform.

We-Sci: a collaborative research network for computational and traditional biologists.

If you have a pressing need to read an academic paper that’s hiding behind a paywall, your quickest course of action may well be to use Sci-Hub.

With Substance and Stencila, eLife is developing the technology required to publish computationally reproducible research articles online.

Transparency is back in vogue.

Find out how Pure is giving the Research Council of Norway access to a global pool of experts for its wide variety of projects.

A recent book guides Ph.D. students and postdocs through the process of preparing for a career outside academe.

A story about reproducibility.

Parallels in science denialism: Soviet Union led by Stalin and US government led by Trump.

Elsevier develops and implements comprehensive new journal data guidelines.

When scientists step outside their safe laboratories, anything can happen. Of course, studying wild animals or digging out million-year-old fossils sounds exotic and exciting, but that's only one side of the spectrum.

An overview of the type of research that has been published since launch of Wellcome Open Research.

Everything one can do other than be professor.

The time for crowdsourcing science has arrived. From idea generation to job hunting, crowdsourcing science can have an impact in your research.

It took a polymath to pin down the true nature of ‘information’. His answer was both a revelation and a return.

A template for responding the invitations for editorial and reviewer tasks for journals that you wish to boycott.

After a post-election frenzy to save government data, open-access advocates are refocusing their energies toward a long-term strategy.

Whatever the future may hold, hyperloops, Mars or otherwise, it is the culture of research that will support our world-class researchers to deliver at their best.

Why the view that women are gentle, caring and empathetic, whereas men are strong, rational and dominant, is misguided.

Data labs, and the scant motivations for sharing data in basic science.