How many authors does it really need to write a paper?

The Open Access Button directly reachs out to scholars who publish their work in paywalled journals to ask them to legally share their research.

“When seven come together unanimously than it’s much stronger than if only one person signs."

A peer-reviewed journal targeting computational research and encouraging the explicit replication of already published research.

Study finds that people aren’t great at spotting fake images.

The Structural Genomics Consortium encourages pharma companies and academics to put all their cards on the table in the interest of speeding up drug research.

From declining royal honour to refusing to sit for a portrait, correspondences show co-discoverer of evolutionary theory avoiding publicity.

One of the top journals in political science makes data-sharing and replication part of the publication process.

From analyzing millions of satellite images to finding healthy strains of plant microbiome, these startups have raised over $500M to bring AI and robotics to agriculture.

“My university's resources to combat abusive supervisors are laughably ineffective.”

BulliedIntoBadScience.org for early career researchers who aim for a fairer, more open and ethical research and publication environment.

Affordable dwellings are rare in many areas where junior researchers want to study or work.

Unencumbered dissemination of scientific research depends on a fair Internet.

A new blog journal on Science Policy.

Exciting new discoveries get all the attention — leaving just-as-important negative results in the dust. And fixing the problem is easier said than done.

The current funding climate certainly doesn’t favour changes, but that doesn’t mean that change isn’t possible.

How are scholars and researchers working to restore confidence in peer-reviewed science?

In a decentralized architecture, anyone has the ability to download and re-host data without changing it's permanent identifier.

Supporting efforts to help do better science, build community around projects or develop tools.

How deep learning is helping scientists cope with a data deluge.

Why breaking down walls between different academic disciplines could enhance our understanding of why research evidence does − or doesn’t − make it into policy.

A working group aiming to advance scientific research and discovery, promote technology that assists the scientific and academic communities, and make research available worldwide for the good of all humanity.

Scientists are more concerned about the impact of sloppy science than outright scientific fraud.

A recently published study in Research Integrity and Peer Review, that surveyed 178 trainee doctors, finds that although peer review is perceived as an important means of quality control by this community, there is little value placed on being able to scrutinize peer review themselves.

Between August 2014 and September 2016, the Academic Book of the Future Project, initiated by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Library, explored the current and future status of the traditional academic monograph.

Authors from western, individualist cultures are more likely to use many self-citations than authors from more collectivist cultures.

1. Write for the intended audience.

A new way to access and consume science from your desktop using peer-to-peer technology.

Frontiers’ CEO, Kamila Markram, makes a case for why open science is the key to innovation, economic growth and solutions to a sustainable future.

Sci-Hub is not a search engine and it stores papers in its own repository.