And why is it important?

Want to get involved with an Open project but don’t know where to start? Check out the list of awesome projects.

NIH puts forward a new approach to make sure that it is exercising optimum stewardship of the funds.

Remember the Kardashian index? That was Neil Hall's 2014 tongue-in-cheek(ish) dig at science Twitter and "Science Kardashians" - scientists with a high Twitter-follower-to-citation ratio.

An open introductory course into the practices of Open Science explains how to make the most of the existing outputs of open research.

Contributing to science is no easy endeavor.

You've accepted an invitation to review a research article. Here's some step by step guidance for how to do it right.

From Turkey to Thailand, some countries punch above their weight when it comes to university access and research. And where education takes root, economic growth soon follows, says Chris Parr of Times Higher Education.

Preprints are receiving welcome attention these days for being an integral part of research communication. We announce that starting this week researchers will be able to directly submit their manuscripts to PeerJ for peer review from the popular preprint server bioRxiv.

Funding shortfalls at the luxe science magazine have left some contributors waiting months to be paid. They may need to wait a little longer.

New study suggests female professors outperform men in terms of service -- to their possible professional detriment.

Despite migration of scientists, eastern European paper output has increased.

As machine learning surpasses human intelligence, where does that leave us? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about the exciting — and terrifying — future of human-robot collaboration.

Is it unethical for a Publisher to extract content from an academic author and commercially benefit from the sale of this without returning any of the economic gains back to the provider of that content or his/her employer?

Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.

A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills.

A novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.

Two hiring seasons and 112 applications.

SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving.

Advances in science and public health policy have saved over 107 million lives in 25 years.

The unconference about tools and rules in collaborative research.

Open Knowledge Maps is a visualization tool for researchers that allows them to view groupings of manuscripts that share common words when searching for a new research topic

The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.

In this blog, I will examine the hypothesis that blogs are, on average, of higher quality than journal articles.

The growing need for collaboration among young scientists is more essential now than ever before, with careers in research becoming more uncertain and perilous.

Post-publication peer review emerged in response to increased calls for continuous moderation of the published research literature.

A message from eLife early career group made up of graduate students, post docs, and junior group leaders of the eLife early-career advisory board.

The process for correcting a published article can be needlessly burdensome. So some researchers have decided to take matters into their own hands.

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

There is an important point here: we simply can’t build a meaningfully open scholarly infrastructure that is dependent on the whims of corporations. It can’t be done.