Inside the invisible war for the open internet.

The scope of open science and the variety of actors involved make it not realistic, and even counterproductive, to expect there to be, now or in the future, one definition of open science that fits all.

Last year’s Federal budget contained a number of significant dollar boosts for Canadian research but, more importantly, the language behind…

Citation cartels are groups of researchers and journals that team up with the specific intent of affecting the number of citations their publications receive.

Preprint posting is the right thing to do for science and society. It enables us to share our results earlier, speeding up the pace of science.

A report from the the Open Science Conference in Berlin last week.

Next-generation citizen science.

A visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike.

Get full-text of research papers as you browse, using Unpaywall's index of ten million legal, open-access articles.

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget is essentially a policy document, outlining the policy priorities of the administration and their plan to execute desired goals.

Conflicts of interest can send a researcher's reputation crashing — but resolving them needn't be as burdensome as it seems.

On the day of the hearing between Elsevier and the Dutch universities ScienceGuide has uncovered the contract which publicity was the centre of the dispute. The open access paragraph in the contract reveals how Elsevier plans to fight open access every step of the way.

Ask any young science faculty member what keeps them up at night, and you’re likely to get the same response every time: funding research.

Free online courses to help you expand your mind in whatever directions you want.

This is the second part in a series on how we edit science, looking at hypothesis testing, the problem of p-hacking and how the peer review process works.

As the European Research Council celebrates its 10-year anniversary, researchers reveal what more than €12bn of ERC funding has supported.

The basic principle for any incentive scheme is this: can you measure everything that matters?

It’s not just about distributing credit where it’s due

Revised text of a talk given by the Director of Libraries at MIT.

Scientific research remains male-dominated—but women are catching up.

Join the online community to share, enjoy and vote the art of science. Share scientific images and participate in microscope photography competitions.

A data set interrogation tool in the field of cell and molecular biology.

A platform enabling scientists to create, share and control open and affordable lab automation tools.

A beautiful new way to create and share research figures.

Figures, HackScience and HipDynamics, three companies aiming to disrupt the academic space.

An open access repository of science methods and collaborative research platform.

Many bibliometricians and university administrators remain wary of Google Scholar citation data, preferring “the gold standard” of Web of Science instead.

The constant demand for predatory journals has now exposed significant flaws in the academic research establishment that questions the integrity of the research system.

A few months ago, Stephen Heard wrote a blog post that prompted us to have a brief twitter discussion on whether we sign our reviews.

From ideas to action: discussion on how to write a grant proposal