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A perspective from an interdisciplinary group of early career researchers on the value of preprints, advocating the wide adoption of preprints to advance knowledge and facilitate career development.
Many of Sci-Hub's domains have been blocked in Russia following a complaint from academic publisher Springer Nature that three studies covering heart and brain health were offered without obtaining an appropriate license.
A leading scientist wants Chinese researchers to halt a project to create genetically modified children.
The entrepreneur and author on how universities can create a healthy working culture
Researchers who are mobile get more citations and build broader teams of collaborators than those who aren't, concludes a recent study.
How are Hungarian, Polish and Swedish gender scholars responding to criticism and campaigns to discredit their work? Not only do they emphasize the intrinsic value of gender studies - they also use humour to counter the anti-gender campaigns.
Many believe it is difficult to reconcile demands for gender equality and measures such as moderate quotas with academia's conception of quality. This is according to a new master's thesis on assessments and gender in hiring processes for senior-level positions.
Male post-docs and PhD candidates work more than their female colleagues, but female professors work the most hours of all, according to the latest time use survey.
After a troubled year for universities, the next generation of leaders is emerging. They're tech savvy, low ego and skilled in soft power
We want the research we fund - like publications, data, software and materials - to be open and accessible, so it can have the greatest possible impact.
The undersigned researchers believe that the world's scholarly literature is a public resource that only achieves its full value when it is freely available to all.
As open access (OA) to publications continues to gather momentum, we should continuously question whether it is moving in the right direction.
The idea of the conference is to bring to the fore the impact contributions of social sciences and humanities (SSH) research to transformative national and European research and innovation agendas, as well as to openly reflect on and structurally discuss the topic. Due to the huge interest in the conference and limited seating, a live-streaming of the main sessions of the conference on both conference days is offered.
A global sprint to develop 10 FAIR things resources for data in different disciplines.
Ensuring we focus our definition of success around valuable contributions - instead of around the final output - would recognise and reward good research and researchers.
Getting the most out of your Google Scholar profile, creating some old-fashioned table of contents alerts, and simply setting aside time to periodically review key journal titles will ensure you rarely miss out on important research.
The Haldane principle, born a century ago, has enabled government scientists to speak truth to power without fear of retribution.
Researchers plan to spray sunlight-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, an approach that could ultimately be used to quickly lower the planet's temperature.
A new collection page brings together articles that eLife has published in the burgeoning field of meta-research.
Graduate students from Africa could benefit from such efforts, but it is not clear who will pay for them.
Academic freedom is on the hit list when radical politicians gain office - as they have done in Europe.
cOALition S asks for feedback on the Plan S implementation plan.
He Jiankui says he created twin girls whose genes were edited to make them resistant to HIV. Was that ethical? Or even legal?
