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.

As a researcher who gets such severe criticism, you have to go through the 5 stages of grief...

Recap of contest launched by the Winnower and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to answer the question – How do we ensure that research is reproducible?

Today sees the publication on bioRxiv of a revised version of our preprint outlining “A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions".

I have just learned that Elsevier, after a lengthy review and negotiation process with the US Patent Office, have been awarded a US Patent on “Online Peer Review System and Method”. What is this about and why is it ridiculous to me.

Richard Morey on thinking about evidence, selling dog food, and how individual scientist can deal with the crisis in the social sciences.

The Bratislava Declaration of Young Researchers calls on member states and the European Commission to recognize the special role that young researchers play for science, development, innovation and economic growth in Europe.

A confidential internal email has come into my hands, from Bristol University, regarding the UK’s national negotiations with Elsevier. I think it’s of general interest.

Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall, January 5, 2016. Each year at this time I formally release my updated list of predatory publishers. Because the list is now very la…

A report suggests that internal discord may tear apart the National Association of Science Writers, a near century-old professional journalism organization.

Marketing is you telling others about yourself. Public relations is having someone else tell others about you.

A series of studies across countries and disciplines in higher education confirm that student evaluations of teaching (SET) are significantly correlated with instructor gender, with students regularly rating female instructors lower than male peers.

Another day, another puff-piece from academic publishers about how awesome they are. This time, the Publisher’s Association somehow suckered the Guardian into giving them a credible-looking p…

Universities must continue to monitor and track the variety of associated spending related to journal publishing and access, argues Lorraine Estelle. Many universities are forecasting that their AP…

Google believes there's a scientist in all of us, so it's launching a new app that turns your phone into a powerful little research lab.

As part of our Event Data work we’ve been investigating where DOI resolutions come from.

SSRN’s data actually represents the world of social science scholarship reasonably well.

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…

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"

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

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.