Google believes there's a scientist in all of us, so it's launching a new app that turns your phone into a powerful little research lab.

A two-day sprint event bringing together researchers, coders, librarians and the public from around the globe.

Following the approach for the datasets in 2013 and 2014, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is making the publication costs spent in 2015 (esp. for Open Access) publically available.

As part of our Event Data work we’ve been investigating where DOI resolutions come from.

SSRN’s data actually represents the world of social science scholarship reasonably well.

The rate of foreign scientists and students has been for a long time identified as a key factor for innovation and economic competitiveness.

Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.

The world currently spends about €7.6 billion per year on subscriptions to academic journals according to one report. If all journal articles in the world were published in journals like PLOS One, we would spend €2.6 billion on publishing. Compared with today’s expenditures, humanity would save €5 billion every year.

Why is it so frustrating and difficult to talk about scholarly-communication reform, and why do those conversations seem to involve virtually all members of the scholcomm ecosystem?

When PLoS announced its data policy that all data should be made publicly available, everyone applauded. It was a big step toward an open science and data sharing.