A new “papers service” for social science content was recently launched and is capitalizing on concerns over the sale of a long time preprint server by a commercial publisher.

The European Academies, including the Royal Society, have published a joint statement.

A mission-based, independent publisher standing for fairness and return approximately 25% of revenue to the research community.

Europe's voyage towards an open global research area

Technologies based on the electronic analysis of large amounts of works are still in their infancy, and the possibilities they might open up in the future are largely unpredictable.

A practical Responsible Research and Innovation tools database

Lab Carpentry provides training resources and example documents for lab management to busy scientists.

Johns Hopkins University Press' Project MUSE online platform will host scholarly monographs and materials in humanities and social sciences.

The $250,000 MIT Media Lab Disobedience award: to a person or group engaged in disobedience for the benefit of society.

Suggestions of how to get started, in seeking to adopt a reproducible workflow for one's computational research.

In talking with some folks about mental health issues in academia, one thing that comes up is the idea that maybe people are better scientists because of those issues. 

How do you edit Barack Obama? The Chronicle spoke to the editor in chief of a journal that published the president’s article on the future of health-care reform on Monday.

Obama Just Did Something No President Has Ever Done: Call him scholar-in-chief

Which organizations and projects are potentially impacted, and how are they connected?

Many of the comments in the Apollo Guidance Computer code go beyond boring explanations of the software itself. They’re full of light-hearted jokes and messages, and very 1960s references.

Resources for the Educational Modules of Professional School Students

Late nights, typos, self-doubt and despair. Francis Collins, Sara Seager and Uta Frith dust off their theses, and reflect on what the PhD was like for them.

Google Scholar is great, but its inclusiveness and mix of automatically updated and hand-curated profiles means you should never take any of its numbers at face value.

In our global survey on innovations in scholarly communication, we asked researchers what tools they use for a large number of activities across the research cycle.

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is alarming. Like many researchers in computing and social science, writing scripts, bots, or scrapers that collect online data is a normal part of my work.

The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach.

Denmark, a new design for innovation - 2014-2019, speech by Carlos Moedas.

Michael Katze, famous for his studies of Ebola and the flu, ran a lab at the University of Washington where intoxication and sexual harassment went unchecked, and where he misused public resources for personal gain, according to two investigations obtained by BuzzFeed News.

We, the undersigned, wish to address the imminent crisis facing Canadian health researchers.

The answer is what I call “epistemic rent-seeking,” namely, the tendency for disciplines to become increasingly proprietary in their relationship to organized inquiry.

Sir Paul Nurse says UK science will suffer unless any post-Brexit agreement allows the free movement of people.

Explore the benefits of building bridges and pick up some tips about how to do it in this collection of articles from our archives.

An analysis to the NYT article entitled "A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors"

Ever wish you could just publish an exciting result, without having to wait for the entire string of data that follows in order to tell an entire story, which then gets held up for months by peer review at traditional journals?

Many feel there is only one path to success and that any deviations will be catastrophic. My own academic path might seem to support this belief. On the surface, it appears quite linear: undergrad, grad student, postdoc, faculty member. But if you look deeper, you will see the series of roadblocks and revised plans that led me to where I am today.