An international initiative that aims to induce the swift, smooth and scholarly-oriented transformation of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing.

A second generation of gig economy startups is abandoning a dependence on contractors in favor of full employees.

A new organization, I4OC, is working towards making reliable, structured data of authors, reference lists, and citations accessible to the public.

On April 22nd, 2017, the March For Science, Geneva, will be one of hundreds of marches taking place around the world to affirm that science is crucial to society — and belongs to everyone.

OMICtools bridges the gap between life science and computational biology.

Tracking anti-science policies and statements of the new Administration.

If you are terrified to meet with your supervisor, start with small doses.

The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched on April 6th, 2017. Over the course of about six months, the initiative has made a large fraction of the citation data that link all scholarship freely available.

Topics range from cultures of translation in the early modern period to functions of the CRISPR-Cas system / Approximately €100 million for three years

A new programme aimed at providing funding to Irish researchers involved in exploratory blue skies research has been launched.

The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.

While the US accounts for 75% of global digital health deal share, deal flow to international startups continues to climb.

Column by Maria Leptin, Director of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Statement by Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation concerning the recent legislative changes to the Hungarian national higher education Act.

Q&A with the author of a new book on reproducibility.

Read paywalled research papers for free. It's fast, free, and legal, powered by a database of millions of author-uploaded PDFs.

Open Science DB is a grassroots movement led by graduate students in science who aspire to make scientific research more accessible to the public.

Because sharing underlying data is essential for accelerating scientific advances and maximizing the value of research.

The vision for what is hoped to be the largest science advocacy event in history.

In our complex and interconnected world, we need leaders of imagination, understanding, and emotional intelligence. To cultivate such leaders, we must value and invest in the humanities, says Peter Salovey, President of Yale University.

How can something exclusive, secretive, and irreproducible be considered to be objective? How can something exclusive, secretive, and irreproducible be considered as a ‘gold standard’ of any sort?

Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.

Tal Danino manipulates microorganisms in his lab to create eye-catching, colorful patterns.

Discovering that there is a way to get out from the situation which keeps us locked into the legacy publishing system.

At ScienceOpen, we have over 28 million article records all available for public, post-publication peer review (PPPR), 3 million of which are full-text Open Access. But is there anything we can do to increase its usage and adoption as part of a more open research culture?

When I first received one of your reports, I lay on the couch hugging a cushion. Then rage set in and I wanted to prove you wrong.

Even if your intention is the noble quest for truth, selling your science as a long-term technology investment might be an easier sale to some.

40 leading experts working on the theory and practice of evidence for policy convened in Brussels to discuss the specific competences needed to succeed in this area.

Authorea seeks to marry the ease of writing on Word or Google Docs with the power of LaTeX, HTML, and Git.

The good news is you’ve published your manuscript! The bad news? With two million other new research articles likely to be published this year, you face steep competition for readers, downloads, citations and media attention.