China blocked the Wikimedia Foundation’s application for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization. As a result, the Foundation’s application for observer status has been suspended and will be reconsidered at a future WIPO meeting.

In the world of scientific research today, there’s a revolution going on – over the last decade or so, scientists across many disciplines have been seeking to improve the workings of science and its methods. To do this, scientists are largely following one of two paths: the movement for reproducibility and the movement for open science. Both movements aim to create centralized archives for data, computer code and other resources, but from there, the paths diverge. 

Recent advances are bringing cancer vaccines much closer to reality, giving patients another weapon in their arsenal of cancer treatments, according to Dr Madiha Derouazi, CEO of Amal Therapeutics and one of three winners of the 2020 EU Prize for Women Innovators.

Elon Musk made big promises at Tesla's highly anticipated event. But a prototype never appeared, and it was unclear what the company had actually achieved.

Some of the leading candidates might work better for the richest people in the world, simply on account of how they're made.

Mother in Science is launching the first global survey to measure the impact of having children on career progression, scientific productivity and career choices of women in STEMM, and to identify the specific motherhood-related factors driving gender imbalance in STEMM employment.

The Open Access Days are the central annual conference on Open Access and Open Science in the German-speaking world and will take place from 15 to 17 September 2020 as an online conference.

Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles- the next 5 million is getting harder.

The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) is pleased to announce the formal launch of our organization.

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Christina Termini from UCLA presents a list of 100 Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America that all researchers can look to for inspiration.

We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now.

This article examines why many studies fail to replicate statistically significant published results.

The proportion of research outputs published in open access journals or made available on other freely-accessible platforms has increased over the past two decades, driven largely by funder mandates, institutional policies, grass-roots advocacy, and changing attitudes in the research community.

UCLA professor of Law and Communication Mario Biagioli dissects how metric-based evaluations are shaping university agendas.

New report published by Springer Nature analyses usage patterns across open access and closed books.The results show higher geographic diversity of usage, higher numbers of downloads and more citations for open access books.

Invest in Open Infrastructure receives initial funding to launch and hire a Director.

Most open access journals lack the technical means and plans to preserve their articles, despite a mandate from some funders that they do so. Specialists worry about a potential loss to scholarship.

Universal facial masking might help reduce the severity of SARS-CoV-2 and ensure that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.