The 21st International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 6 - 8 June, 2017, Limassol, Cyprus.

In a sweeping manifesto, researchers from the U.S. and Europe have proposed some fixes for vetting published science. It might help science journalism, too.

Research can produce good evidence to inform local, national and international policy that, in turn, has the potential to transform lives for the better. But influencing policy is neither easy nor automatic – you need to want to do it. To be successful, you need to be open to different ways of working. Here are 10 things you need to know.

Traditionally, at the beginning of the new year we celebrated what is known as Public Domain Day: on the first of January of any given year the works of authors who have been dead for more than 70 years enter the public domain. As this is a decisive year for copyright reform in the European Union, it seems much more important to highlight the dangers for the public domain that we are facing in the context of the copyright reform process.

A committment by a young researcher to practice open and good science, and more generally to free culture.

An exciting list of topics and concepts around the future of the paper.

Envisioning the scientific paper of the future.

Groups of authors citing each other is becoming an issue in scientific publishing. With a new approach, researchers discuss how to identify the problem.

Cutting-edge research, international collaboration and full funding: the project sounded too good to be true. It was.

We wanted to share with you some of the awesome science innovations and disruptors from the last year. This is our list.

There are a few red flags to look out for when reading about new scientific discoveries that can help you spot dodgy or unreliable work.

Neuroskeptic« No Need To Worry About False Positives in fMRI?What Happens to Rejected Papers?By Neuroskeptic | January 3, 2017 2:43 pm32The pain of rejection is one that every scientist has felt: but what happens to papers after they’re declined by a journal?In a new study, researchers Earnshaw et al. traced the fate of almost 1,000 manuscripts which had been submitted to and rejected by ear, nose and throat journal Clinical Otolaryngology between 2011 to 2013.

232 new predatory open-access publishers over 2016.

Having examined the organisation of Europe’s academic labour markets, Alexandre Afonso outlines the main differences between countries across the continent. There is greatest variance in two …

As I was thinking about casting my vote for the Open Science Prize, I realized that I would in fact need a rubric for choosing. I was concerned that the public vote would tend towards popularity, familiarity, or bling, rather than the quality of the open science. But what does it mean to be “quality open science?” What should be the most important criteria?

An infographic analyzing NSF's six research initiatives.

79 countries feature in the Times Higher Education ranking, But they are far from evenly spread.

How administrative procedure and law failed a scientist accused of research misconduct.

It's time to give Vera Rubin a Nobel for dark matter.

There’s no shortage of misinformation in the world — particularly around health and science topics.

Online maths company has partnered with scientists to identify what makes lessons successful - and to see if AI can be used to improve teaching.

The Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition celebrates the power of photography to communicate science.

A roundup of the top trending online tools of 2016 that were most appreciated and used by the LabWorm community.

What would physics look like if Einstein had never existed, or biology without Darwin?

Information on universities’ expenditure on publications

Research – news, analysis, funding and data for the academic research and policy community

Trump’s timing on science jobs not unusual for presidents.

The Third Annual Academics with Cats Awards, organised by Academia Obscura, celebrates academic cats and injects a bit of fun into the pre-Christmas panic.

In a paper published today, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) looks at interdisciplinarity as a powerful driver of knowledge creation, scientific progress and innovation.

Using analytics to improve hiring decisions has transformed industries from baseball to investment banking. So why are tenure decisions for professors still made the old-fashioned way?, asks Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT.