The World Intellectual Property Organization today announced its new Open Access policy to promote the widest possible public access to its publications, furthering the Organization’s commitment to the dissemination and sharing of knowledge.
Open publishing platforms that bring grey literature out of the dark promise to save money, reduce duplication and speed communication
In April, we announced we were pausing our public engagement funding to thoroughly review and explore the best ways for us to support public engagement activities in future. Now, we’re pleased – and more than a little excited – to share the outcome of this work.
In order to reduce its gender imbalance, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam will hold special election rounds, one in 2017 and one in 2018, for which only women can be nominated.
Cap at current spending levels could spell 'end of science in Brazil', researchers say.
What do Godzilla and scientific peer review have in common? Each ought to be collapsing under its own weight, yet somehow they stand.
Key areas that you’ll need to work on to be an outstanding proposal writer.
Researchers naturally want their work to make a difference, but the sad fact is that it often has little influence beyond academia
Biologists in particular are writing their papers in a less formal style.
The first articles have gone live on Wellcome Open Research; 15 of them in total, with more submissions in the pipeline.
Davide Vannoni is barred from offering a controversial stem-cell therapy in Italy but may be continuing his work abroad.
While the total output of the eleven open-access mega-journals grew by 14.9% between 2014 and 2015, this growth is largely attributable to the increased output of Scientific Reports and Medicine.
In the aftermath of the election results, a group of women in the sciences has banded together to speak out against anti-intellectualism, inequality, sexism and discrimination.
In a fractured world, the humanities are key to an understanding of others.
Pressure to barrel through a PhD can make taking a break seem daunting — but there are ways to limit career damage.
Will F1000Research and Wellcome Open Research be replacing journals and editors?
Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.
A collection of Twitter hashtags about science communication to facilitate engagement with academics and professionals on Twitter.
The winners in Trump's America were likely to be the defence industry, oil and energy, private prisons, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Not health. What should be the response of the public health community?
PIDapalooza, the first ever festival of persistent identifiers, set out not only to bring together the creators and users of PIDs, but also to make PIDs cool.
This study investigates whether bias with single-blind review is greatest in a setting of author or institutional prestige.
