Negotiators fail to reach a deal with Oxford University Press (OUP) over transition to open access

Here’s how the agency is trying to change that

New technologies could deliver the benefits of nature without the hassle of life

The Open Science FAIR 2017 is proud to hold its inaugural international conference on all topics related to Open Science during 6-8 September, Athens.

Funders should force universities to support laboratories’ research health

A practical peer review training course for early career researchers developed together with expert academics and editors to teach you the core competencies and skills needed of a peer reviewer.

Louisiana State University (LSU) takes Elsevier to court in an attempt to settle a disagreement with the publisher about its $1.64 million contract.

Louisiana State University (LSU) filed a lawsuit on February 27, 2017, against international science publisher Elsevier B.V. for breach of contract resulting from the publisher’s exclusion of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine from accessing content licensed by the LSU Libraries.

Alfredo Fusco denies claims that his research lab hired a photo studio to manipulate images.

Female engineers who work at Facebook may face gender bias that prevents their code from being accepted at the same rate as male counterparts, according to internal company studies disclosed today.

Thanks to crowdfunding, Swiss university students can build an airplane and solve an energy problem. But is this the best way to finance good science?

In the battle against fake news, a Greek computer scientist living in a northern English town is on the front lines. Armed with a decade of machine learning expertise, he is part of a British start-up that will soon release an automated fact-checking tool ahead of the country’s election in early June.

The NIH will get a $2 billion funding hike under a bipartisan spending agreement reached late Sunday, as Congress rebuffed Trump's call for cuts.

With funding cuts to major science agencies looming, it is now more important than ever for researchers to embrace transparency and data sharing.

Commission hopes awards will help researchers find other sources of funding.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening its website would be “undergoing changes” to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several agency websites containing detailed climate data and scientific information.

The online encyclopaedia is inaccessible under an official order, but no reason for this is given.

An unknown number of published studies have a hidden flaw: The “peers” who supposedly vouched for their publication are phonies.