On the day of the hearing between Elsevier and the Dutch universities ScienceGuide has uncovered the contract which publicity was the centre of the dispute. The open access paragraph in the contract reveals how Elsevier plans to fight open access every step of the way.
In the latest ploy, a group of researchers in Poland tried to seat a fictional scholar onto the editorial boards of 360 academic publications.
Monitoring top EU based R&D investing companies benchmarking them with top investors located in other parts of the world.
A cross-sectional comparison of characteristics of potential predatory, legitimate open access, and legitimate subscription-based biomedical journals.
Papers reporting Gates-sponsored research cannot be charged for.
It is common practice for medical researchers to hoard results for months or years until research is published in an academic journal. Even then, the data underpinning a study are often not made public.
Conflicts of interest can send a researcher's reputation crashing — but resolving them needn't be as burdensome as it seems.
Silicon Valley is coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place.
eLife has made it possible to submit the work first to eLife and then post the manuscript directly to bioRxiv.
Gender-bias in peer reviewing might persist even when gender-equity is reached because both male and female editors operate with a same-gender preference whose characteristics differ by editor-gender.
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget is essentially a policy document, outlining the policy priorities of the administration and their plan to execute desired goals.
Get full-text of research papers as you browse, using Unpaywall's index of ten million legal, open-access articles.
A visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike.
Agency welcomes raw manuscripts of findings that haven’t yet been peer reviewed.
But the pressure to publish might not be such a problem after all.
Global health charity is latest funder to start its own publishing ‘channel’ — and the European Commission is considering its own service.
Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science.
And more than a little quixotic.
Agency attempts to set the record straight after suggesting rise in cases.
A report from the the Open Science Conference in Berlin last week.
Preprint posting is the right thing to do for science and society. It enables us to share our results earlier, speeding up the pace of science.
A recently revealed contract between Elsevier and the Dutch research institutes lays bare the retardant tactics the publishing giant employs to stifle the growth of open access.
Wellcome Trust annual analysis of the Charity Open Access Fund spend.
Steps to reduce waste of funds in research.
Citation cartels are groups of researchers and journals that team up with the specific intent of affecting the number of citations their publications receive.
