From Turkey to Thailand, some countries punch above their weight when it comes to university access and research. And where education takes root, economic growth soon follows, says Chris Parr of Times Higher Education.
For years, there was no overview of what the total amount being paid for journal subscriptions was per institute or on a national level.
Study suggesting that journal-specific submission guidelines may encourage desirable changes in authors’ practices.
You've accepted an invitation to review a research article. Here's some step by step guidance for how to do it right.
Contributing to science is no easy endeavor.
An open introductory course into the practices of Open Science explains how to make the most of the existing outputs of open research.
With funding cuts to major science agencies looming, it is now more important than ever for researchers to embrace transparency and data sharing.
Remember the Kardashian index? That was Neil Hall's 2014 tongue-in-cheek(ish) dig at science Twitter and "Science Kardashians" - scientists with a high Twitter-follower-to-citation ratio.
The online encyclopaedia is inaccessible under an official order, but no reason for this is given.
In the battle against fake news, a Greek computer scientist living in a northern English town is on the front lines. Armed with a decade of machine learning expertise, he is part of a British start-up that will soon release an automated fact-checking tool ahead of the country’s election in early June.
Scientific community calls on voters not to support the candidate of the National Front
Online survey suggests that first-time protesters and nonresearchers swelled the ranks at the weekend pro-science event
A report based on the sessions at the SpotOn London conference held at Wellcome Collection Conference centre in November 2016.
Thanks to crowdfunding, Swiss university students can build an airplane and solve an energy problem. But is this the best way to finance good science?
The results of a cross-disciplinary survey show that the majority of respondents are in favour of Open Peer Review becoming mainstream scholarly practice, as they also are for other areas of Open Science, like Open Access and Open Data.
Louisiana State University (LSU) filed a lawsuit on February 27, 2017, against international science publisher Elsevier B.V. for breach of contract resulting from the publisher’s exclusion of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine from accessing content licensed by the LSU Libraries.
Want to get involved with an Open project but don’t know where to start? Check out the list of awesome projects.
A practical peer review training course for early career researchers developed together with expert academics and editors to teach you the core competencies and skills needed of a peer reviewer.
Alfredo Fusco denies claims that his research lab hired a photo studio to manipulate images.
Female engineers who work at Facebook may face gender bias that prevents their code from being accepted at the same rate as male counterparts, according to internal company studies disclosed today.
The Open Science FAIR 2017 is proud to hold its inaugural international conference on all topics related to Open Science during 6-8 September, Athens.
Louisiana State University (LSU) takes Elsevier to court in an attempt to settle a disagreement with the publisher about its $1.64 million contract.
We formulate ten simple rules for considering using preprints as a scientific communication mechanism.
We all love science when it’s making life better, longer and easier. It’s a much harder sell when it points to inconvenient truths about our way of life
Negotiators fail to reach a deal with Oxford University Press (OUP) over transition to open access
