Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.

Why is it so frustrating and difficult to talk about scholarly-communication reform, and why do those conversations seem to involve virtually all members of the scholcomm ecosystem?

The world currently spends about €7.6 billion per year on subscriptions to academic journals according to one report. If all journal articles in the world were published in journals like PLOS One, we would spend €2.6 billion on publishing. Compared with today’s expenditures, humanity would save €5 billion every year.

When PLoS announced its data policy that all data should be made publicly available, everyone applauded. It was a big step toward an open science and data sharing.

Ever since Reagan and Thatcher made neoliberal ideas palatable to an unsuspecting public, concepts such as “New Public Management” or the more general notion that competition between in…

A look at Horizon 2020 in terms of monetary redistribution between Member States.

Top speakers announced at the next EuroScience Open Forum 2016, held in Manchester this summer (July 24-27).

A visual interface to the world's scientific knowledge

A crowdfunding project to give insights into one possible aspect of gender bias in mathematics. 

JournalReviewer is an independent site that aggregates information users provide about their experience with academic journals' review processes.

Today the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) will remove approximately 3300 journals for failure to submit a valid reapplication before the communicated deadline.

An opinon on the article "Merck Wants Its Money Back if University Research Is Wrong"

John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science.

Notes on Open Science from the Barcamp Science 2.0 and the Science 2.0 Conference.

Crossref will enable members to register preprints in order to clarify the scholarly citation record and better support the changing publishing models of its members.

The Future Of Open Access

The symposium “Personalized Health in the Digitial Age” brings together some of the world's thought leaders in the ongoing revolution in personalized and digital health.

Sci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.

After hundreds of manipulated images were detected across 40 scientific journals, the real work will be to correct the scientific record.

Funding more scientists or more projects increases NIH ability to maximize the number of discoveries as a function of the dollars invested.

We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work while affecting interest in the keynote speaker’s presentation. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus is beginning to emerge?

Shannon had a weakness for juggling and unicycles, but his fingerprints are on every electronic device we own.

Scholarly publishing is broken.

A One-Word Explanation

The impact factor is academia’s worst nightmare. So much has been written about its flaws, both in calculation and application, that there is little point in reiterating the same tired points here …

In response to rising concerns about irreproducible science and the lack of somewhere to openly discuss these issues, we recently launched the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness Channel.

Empowering the Next Generation to Advance Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.

Supporting Europe's innovators through open innovation - 2014-2019

Who reads science blogs, and why? This broad question started this Experiment.com project, and now the results are in.

There is increasing support in the scholarly communications community for “flipping” the standard journal publishing model from subscription-based to “gold” open access...