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Sci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.
The value that Australia places on publication quality over quantity has elevated it into the top echelon of science. Can it now improve its flagging track record in commercialization?
Not a scientist? As David Lang shows, you can still play a meaningful role in solving science’s hardest problems.
As long men can score points for producing mountains of output, women will never get a fair shot at academic promotion
The scientific community must do a better job confronting the issues facing women in science, our author writes
Launch of Research Integrity and Peer Review, a new open-access journal that will provide a home to research on ethics, reporting, and evaluation of research.
However, director of the Oxford Martin School says 'disciplinary silos' were one factor contributing to 2008 financial crisis
After hundreds of manipulated images were detected across 40 scientific journals, the real work will be to correct the scientific record.
Breaking down lengthy, narrative-driven biomedical articles into brief reports on singular observations or experiments could increase reproducibility and accessibility in the literature.
Retractions are on the rise. But reams of flawed research papers persist in the scientific literature. Is it time to change the way papers are published?
A Princeton professor’s frankness hides the grim reality about work for many young people
An analysis reveals that the text contents of the scientific papers generally change very little from their pre-print to final published versions.
We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work while affecting interest in the keynote speaker’s presentation. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus is beginning to emerge?
Shannon had a weakness for juggling and unicycles, but his fingerprints are on every electronic device we own.
Johannes Haushofer bravely posts document listing degree programs he did not get in to and academic positions he did not get
Billionaires are funding lots of grandiose plans. Welcome their ambition
A new analysis finds that 3.8 percent of scientific studies have images duplicated from another paper.
Science magazine just published a great piece on the utility of Sci-Hub. Unfortunately, its defense of its own business model is flawed.
Carlo Doglioni aims to concentrate on science, leaving trial and corruption allegations behind
13 tips to make submitting your paper a breeze
In 2012, network scientist and data theorist Samuel Arbesman published a disturbing thesis: What we think of as established knowledge decays over time.
