At ATLAS, data sharing and an open, innovative approach to information collaboration has become a fundamental part of this important scientific community.

Last Wednesday, I attended a conference called Publishing Better Science Through Better Data at the Wellcome Collection, organized by Scientific Data.

Between 2008 and 2015, public funding to universities increased in 11 countries in Europe but in 7 of these, the student number grew faster than the public funding.

A recently published book offers guidance for scientists’ career planning.

What postdocs present and future should know about the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Blockchain could strengthen science’s verification process, helping to make more research results reproducible, true, and useful, due to its capacity to make digital goods immutable, transparent, and provable.

Take action with the new Open Access Button.

The arXiv preprint service is trying to answer an age-old question.

The move to providing the underlying data behind research articles has been a major step towards promoting reproducibility, transparency and data re-use. However, analyses of the quality and annota…

A computational guy’s take on the “reproducibility crisis”

For some time now PLOS has discussed new initiatives designed to accelerate research communication.

Over a decade has passed since the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. A bystander could be forgiven for thinking that the level of discussion and the apparent differences in position across higher education institutions, publishing houses, laboratories, conference halls, funder headquarters, and government buildings must mean that progress has been limited.

What percentage of your work is free to read online?

Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties.

A short, general introduction to open science for a class.

Inspiriring young women to pursue a career in geoscience.

A guide on how to make Twitter work for academic purposes.

Florida ecologist uses a parody Twitter account as a way of highlighting issues in science and academia.

Rejection rates in Frontiers journals are around ~27%, most manuscripts are published within 3 months, and yet, Frontiers’ citations rates are amongst the very highest.

Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.

How easy is it really to exactly replicate a scientific experiment by just reading the published result?

Royal Society’s policy work on machine learning.

President Obama Hosts Frontiers Conference, Focusing on the Potential of Science, Technology, and Innovation to Drive Prosperity and Address Challenges in Personal, Local, National, Global, and Interplanetary Frontiers for the Next 50 Years and Beyond.

We should write our draft, go over it with our co-authors, and then put it on a preprint server. And wait. After a year, when we had the opportunity to share this paper with colleagues, then we can submit it.

An interactive visualization of article publication data from the 2016 NSF Science & Engineering Report suggest discrepancies in the cultures of science around the world.

Are the Article Processing Charge (APC) levels set for high-end OA journals too low to be sustainable?

Colin Macilwain presents five take-home messages from today's Framework 9 event in Brussels.

European Commission fact sheet.

Failing to record the version of any piece of software or hardware, overlooking a single parameter, or glossing over a restriction on how to use another researcher's code can lead you astray.