Data management plans can have thematic, machine-actionable richness with added value for all stakeholders: researchers, funders, repository managers, research administrators, data librarians, and others.
We should be nurturing the kinds of publishing cultures we want to see: those that value the labour needed to care for publishing and that work in harmony with research communities rather than extract from them, argues Samuel Moore.
Clarivate Analytics' Institute for Scientific Information Launches Global Research Report titled Profiles Not Metrics.
Did COVID change the way the public, and the scientists, interpret and discuss scientific results? Statisticians think it looks like the same old problems prevail, only inflated.
As the rush intensifies to find ways to treat and manage COVID-19, one thing is clear: researchers, along with their counterparts in industry and the health services, need unrestricted access to the research literature.
The aim is to help Swiss and US researchers carry out projects with partners in the respective countries.
Survey finds that standard metrics of success can't completely explain why some candidates get offers and others don't.
A small but growing number of scientific faculty positions are focusing on the science of teaching.
Indigenous researchers and communities are reshaping how Western science thinks about data ownership.
Funders and publishers are increasingly asking researchers to account for the role of sex in experiments - a requirement that's contentious and hard to get right.
Senior male researchers at prestigious institutions are the most likely to pay to publish open access, study suggests.
Chinese researchers say a novel coronavirus likely sickened 59 people in Wuhan.
A survey reveals some lab heads are using the need for visas to create unacceptable conditions for junior researchers.
The election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ('Lula') as president of Brazil on 30 October 2022 marked the end of the populist Bolsonaro era. In this Feature, five Brazilian scientists discuss their hopes and expectations for the new presidency and its scientific policies.
A survey that asked researchers to rate the trustworthiness of the studies and other “research outputs” they had come across in the past week has found that 37 per cent considered half or fewer of these to be trustworthy.
According to the Internet Archive every digital learner’s access to library books is at stake due to a lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers. That is why they are standing up to defend the rights of hundreds of libraries that are using Controlled Digital Lending.
The activist and author discusses why there is no one-size-fits-all feminism and her aim to create work that comforts women of colour who have been 'gaslit'
European universities are behind more than 10% of all patent applications filed at the EPO from within Europe. However, wide variations in patterns of ownership and commercialisation are much in evidence.
“Horizon Europe” is the framework programme through which the European Union (EU) has been advancing research and innovation since 2021. It expires in 2027, and negotiations on the successor package are in full swing. Professor Dr Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council (ERC), and Professor Dietmar Harhoff, PhD, are closely involved in this process — and are among those preparing the joint ERC and Leopoldina conference “Towards the European Fifth Freedom and Global Competition: Voices from Science” on 29 June.
CiteSpace cascading citation expansion has the potential to improve our understanding of the structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge.
The Open Library of Humanities has demonstrated a model for high-quality open access publishing, without Article Processing Charges. We asked Chief Executive Officer Martin Eve whether the Library could serve as inspiration for Learned Societies in a post-Plan S world.
Change.org effort that says 'billionaires should not exist' has gathered tens of thousands of signatures
The lifting of pandemic restrictions on travel and increased requirements in EU research programmes for researchers to spend time abroad is drawing renewed attention to the way in which blanket EU rules for managing labour flows are getting in the way.
