Academics and activists decry publisher’s decision to comply with a Chinese request to block more than 300 articles from leading China studies journal.
By 2025, all scholarly publication activity in Austria should be Open Access: the final versions of all scholarly publications resulting from the support of public resources must be freely accessible on the Internet without delay (Gold Open Access).
Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.
Science's quality control processes are under question. Scientists should think about changing the rules and extending their peer communities.
An average academic journal article is read in its entirety by about 10 people. To shape policy, professors should start penning commentaries in popular media.
Thousands of conservation and environmental biologists must now survive two rounds of peer review before getting funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF says that the two-stage review process, which it launched 4 years ago as a pilot project in two divisions within its biology directorate, has resulted in a more manageable workload and fuller consideration of the highest-quality proposals.
When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed reaction from the research community.
NSF surveys generate what seem to be conflicting data on the status of those entering the scientific job market
The online encyclopedia has been fact checking the Internet for more than 15 years. Now it wants to bring its skeptical eye to the masses.
A new study shows universities pay more or less for academic journal bundles than would be expected based simply on size or number of Ph.D.s granted.
Citation counts are not purely a reflection of scientific merit and the impact factor is, in fact, auto-correlated.
The world's largest scholarly journal, PLOS ONE, is seeing fewer and fewer researchers publish their work in it as the open-access publishing market evolves.
Congress will have to pay for some steps to ensure greater reproducibility in the sciences. In the end, those steps will save enormous amounts now spent building blind allies and mirages. What’s needed are standardized descriptions of scientific materials and procedures, standardized statistics programs, and standardized archival formats.
Germany should award millions of euros in extra funding to its 10 top-performing universities, an international commission recommends.
Following a £2 billion research pledge, questions remain around commitment to boost science investment.
Discover the most talked about and the latest scientific content, sorted by Altmetric scores and topics.
Science funders and researchers need to recognize the time, resources and effort required to curate open data.
The Public Library of Science’s open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations.
BioRxiv is a pre-print repository for life science researchers who can now easily share their unpublished work with the research community.
SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazines Nature and Scientific American, is preparing a 2018 stock market listing valuing the company at up to 4 billion euros.
Why professors, librarians, and politicians are shunning liberal arts in the name of STEM.
Authors have, in general, a positive view on open access, but other factors are more important in choosing a place of publication for an academic article.
The latest developments in science policy, hands-on examples from scientific communities as well as current developments in FAIR Data in the field of research data management. This is what was on offer at the Open Science Conference from 13 to 14 March 2018 in Berlin.
From efforts to increase the transparency of the review process to initiatives offering training, there are many attempts underway to make better reviewers out of researchers.
My team is drawn from all over Europe and beyond – the researchers bring in talent, income and dedication.
A new online tool measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that cite them.
This transformation will be a huge undertaking for all those involved, and exactly what these new forms of publication will look like none of us yet knows.
