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The giant journal company said it was merely protecting its own proprietary system. But a wave of critics on social media said they were suspicious of its motives.
A contribution to the open innovation, open science, open to the world agenda 2016.
Science is a big thing, but changing it relies on simple decisions made by individual researchers.
Richard Morey on thinking about evidence, selling dog food, and how individual scientist can deal with the crisis in the social sciences.
Through highlighting six recent advances in research infrastructure, this whitepaper seeks to recast how we think about metadata - not as a series of static records, but as objects that move between systems and organizations.
Open source now runs the world. But it still faces problems
The OpenTrialsFDA team was selected as a finalist for the Open Science Prize.
Senator Elizabeth Warren called on researchers to make public data they collect while testing drugs and medical devices on patients. Others disagree.
Researcher who spent months chasing permission to republish online data sets urges others to read up on the law.
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.
This guide covers three major topics in open science (data, code, and publications) and offers practical advice as well as highlighting advantages of adopting more open research practices.
A literature review demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media attention, potential collaborators, job opportunities, and funding opportunities.
The European Commission recently held an open consultation seeking views on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain, including potentially expanding neighbouring rights to publishers. LIBER's Executive Director Susan Reilly recently attended a high-level working lunch with MEP Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, to present the view of research libraries on this issue.
The last few weeks have been a momentum time in the sciences: not because of a breakthrough in gene therapy or quantum computing, but because world leaders have twice called for scientific papers to be made freely available to all.
The sharing of research results, the free circulation of knowledge, and transparency in methodology are key tenets to the scientific method.
Integration of lab notebook tool will help researchers enrich their data and make it more suitable for reuse
The fast-moving field of gene-drive research provides an opportunity to rewrite the rules of the science, says Kevin Esvelt.
A two-day sprint event bringing together researchers, coders, librarians and the public from around the globe.
Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.
Evolve governance structures, practices and metrics to accelerate innovation in an era of digital connectivity, writes Martin Curley.
Governments need to tighten regulation if the sharing of clinical-trial data is to succeed.
The open source physics site arXiv is turning 25, and it's going to get a makeover. But what does that mean for its principles of data transparency?
Team finalists receive $80,000 each to develop products to overcome hurdles in big data access and usage.
Notes on Open Science from the Barcamp Science 2.0 and the Science 2.0 Conference.
Interview with Daniel Lakens, Assistant Professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology at the Eindhoven University of Technology
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.
A new open science business model charges those who want to keep information private to subsidise those who share it
Supporting Europe's innovators through open innovation - 2014-2019
