The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), initiated in 2009, is a crowd-sourced social-tagging project that runs on open-source software. It captures news and comment on open access (OA) to research in every academic field and region of the world.
Cambridge University study also suggests older people less likely to believe coronavirus misinformation.
This chart shows which countries are making progress to end the pandemic everywhere and which are not.
Kirstie Whitaker and Olivia Guest ask how open ‘open science’ really is.
Bad papers are still published. But some other things might be getting better.
Restoring degraded natural lands highly effective for carbon storage and avoiding species extinctions.
This group set about the world ranking bodies answerable to the communities they rank, by seeking to introduce an evaluation mechanism of their own to rate the rankers.
Review and commentary can help authors improve their articles; curation can provide readers with helpful context and enhance discoverability. But despite the benefits, barriers to reviewing and curating preprints remain.
Big moves to rebuild the scientific infrastructure are possible, argues Ulrich Dirnagl.
Analysis at Dutch university suggests researchers are not reporting a large number of animal experiments.
Open Access (OA) is central to the UK Government’s ambitions for research and innovation. Public funders are reviewing their OA policies and working collaboratively to understand how to take forward the Government’s ambitions.
Over the past few weeks, prominent scientific publications have condemned President Donald Trump's record on science. This is unprecedented.
Institutions have long framed gender inequality as a problem with women, and have been 'strangely silent' about masculinity in academia.
The world's best solar power schemes now offer the "cheapest…electricity in history" with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries.
Links between an anti-lockdown declaration and a libertarian thinktank suggest a hidden agenda, say scientists Trish Greenhalgh, Martin McKee and Michelle Kelly-Irving
Charts and maps show paradoxes of a pandemic that has claimed a million lives
Publishers have retracted more than 20 COVID-related papers. Are they learning from their mistakes and fixing process failures?
This year, candidates for tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in MB&B will be asked to submit anonymized applications—no names of people, places, funding agencies or journals.
The arrangement will allow some researchers in Germany to publish openly - but critics say it comes with a high price.
The more certain someone is about covid-19, the less you should trust them.
A Wikimedia initiative to develop open citations and linked bibliographic data to serve free knowledge. WikiCite is a series of conferences and workshops in support of that goal.
From a human-made virus to vaccine conspiracy theories, we rounded up the most insidious false claims about the pandemic
