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Today's complex, dynamic scientific results are often found with the help of computers. And yet the most popular tool we have for communicating these results is the PDF - literally a simulation of a piece of paper. Maybe we can do better.
Understanding the provenance of information used by Wikipedians, also allows us to lift a veil on its gaps - the types of sources, languages, and perspectives - that are not represented, which in turn can inform community efforts to improve coverage in underserved content areas.
Elsevier will be providing data to guide EU policy decisions that it stands to gain from materially in significant ways.
Elsevier, a major scientific publisher, has a 36 percent profit margin - bigger than Apple, Amazon, and Google. And it's just one of many. But Sci-Hub could change all that by releasing every article for free.
Expansion of US carrier associated with an increase in partnerships of more than 30 percent.
The latest drafts of the copyright regulations in the EU have triggered a wave of criticism from open-science advocates saying that the proposals will stifle research and scholarly communication.
Elsevier has reported a median pay gap of 40%, more than twice the UK average of 18.4% and the highest yet reported by a publishing company.
Open Data policy development in Europe is constantly evolving. In an effort to stay abreast of these changes on behalf of the community, the DCC, together with SPARC Europe, has recently released an update to our analysis of Open Data policies in Europe.
Negotiations between the publisher and a national consortium of academic institutions have reached a stalemate.
After leaving the lab, these three scientists decided they wanted to go back and made it happen.
12 steps, relevant to both first-time peer reviewers and those keen to brush up on their skills.
It helps to choose the right scholarly meeting and to swallow your discomfort with schmoozing.
Dr Patrick Vallance starts in his role as Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) today.
A group of fourteen authors came together in February 2018 at the TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology) in Hannover to create an open, living handbook on Open Science training.
Scholars love to hate the journal impact factor, but how flawed is it?
Most lab mice are kept in pristine conditions, but a few immunologists think a dose of dirt could make them a better model of human disease.
University of California libraries tackle the transition from subscription-based publishing to sustainable open access.
The difference between full counting and fractional counting of publiations should inform our interpretation of the headlines.
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Next Einstein Forum and Elsevier launch a megajournal to boost African research and collaboration.
Across the UK, universities are falling behind government targets to increase female representation on their boards by 2020. What steps can they take?
