It’s a dirty open secret in academia. Scholars work very hard to prove their work is worth taxpayers’ money, but then publish it in journals that are prohibitively expensive—not just for taxpayers but academics themselves.

A new project to convert PDF to XML with high accuracy by complementing existing tools with computer vision technology.

Research dollars don't stay locked up in academia and government labs. R&D collaborations with the private sector are common – and grow the innovation economy.

Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein would have bridled under today's research funding bureaucracy. It's time to allow scientists to indulge their curiosity again.

From fungal networks sharing information and resources connecting all living things to the open source paradigm: Agroecology needs Open Access.

Perverse career incentives steer researchers toward publishing more articles – and away from other important goals.

UK leads drive towards more open way of sharing science, says Jo Johnson

As a regular user of the scholarly literature since before the internet, I have closely followed its digitization. I find it rather frustrating that some of the most basic functionalities are still excluded.

SNSF grant-holders may deposit their scientific data in any recognized digital archive (commercial or not) that meets the FAIR principles.

By joining the consortium, eLife will support the introduction of innovative new tools to help expand the current online open scholarly infrastructure.

Should faculty members participate in the “world university rankings” industry?

The only thing that matters is your IF.

Life scientists told us whether they would like to share and read computationally reproducible research articles.

Humanity might have saved itself a lot of trouble in the long run by investing in the Einstein-Szilard approach to cooling water with fire.

Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better.

Researchers had to remove the bird because they were worried it’d teach the others.

The issue regarding free access to academic journals and content is growing increasingly contentious, with founders of sites that enable this facing the might of the law. But should knowledge be exclusive?

Bill Radke talks to Paul Basken, science policy reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, about how we should consume news that reports on scientific research.

A new study from Oxford University Press further documents the decline of reference resources, a category of scholarly material more than ready for an innovative era in its evolution.

Experts debate how best to point researchers to reputable publishers and steer them away from predatory ones.

From an audio version of a peer-reviewed journal to 60-second crash courses, these are the best science podcasts.

President said ‘Make Our Planet Great Again’ — and researchers signed up.

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.