In recent years, observers have noticed that articles for which an APC has been paid are not always made freely available. How pervasive is this problem?
The President's proposed budget guts scientific research and protection, because it either doesn't know what science is for, or doesn't care.
We find Nature Research's critical attitude towards journal impact factors, embodied in its signing of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA; Nature 544, 394; 2017), to be inconsistent with the aims of its Nature Index.
Libraries can survive these times of technological upheaval, but they’re going to have to change–and fast.
Containerization technology takes the hassle out of setting up software and can boost the reproducibility of data-driven research.
A few years back, scientists at the biotechnology company Amgen set out to replicate 53 landmark studies that argued for new approaches to treat cancers using both existing and new molecules. They were able to replicate the findings of the original research only 11 percent of the time.
Is citation manipulation a moral problem or an accounting problem?
Papers with female first authors receive 10% fewer citations than comparable work published by men, according to a new study
The time that you’re absolutely sick of saying it is about the time that your target audience has heard it for the first time.
Partly in response to the so-called 'reproducibility crisis' in science, researchers are embracing a set of practices that aim to make the whole endeavor more transparent, more reliable – and better.
Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.
This feature enables users to update the record’s files after they have been made public and researchers to easily cite either specific versions of a record or to cite, via a top-level DOI, all the versions of a record.
Nature will publish more details on experiments described in life-sciences papers.
Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.
Thousands of open access papers have mistakenly asked readers to pay access fees, but publishers are correcting the errors.
Race-blind reviews very difficult and may not help, researchers say
Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.
Striking a Balance: Embracing Change While Preserving Tradition in Scholarly Communications
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A SPARC analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies across Europe.
Peer review recognition company Publons is set to expand under new owners. Could this boost peer review and stop it being seen as an onerous, thankless task?
Publons wants scientists to be rewarded for assessing others’ work.
Today we’re rolling out new features in Sheets that make it even easier for you to visualize and share your data, and find insights your teams can act on.
In this article Robert Harington assesses the Diamond open access model for society journal publishing.
Public Knowledge Project - PKP is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.
