A small change would open up a whole new class of works for which publishers could demand payment for the use of small snippets, apparently including works that the author had released under an open access license.
From an audio version of a peer-reviewed journal to 60-second crash courses, these are the best science podcasts.
Examining the functionality of a range of social Web platforms, and comparing these with the traits underlying a viable peer review system.
Experts debate how best to point researchers to reputable publishers and steer them away from predatory ones.
A new study from Oxford University Press further documents the decline of reference resources, a category of scholarly material more than ready for an innovative era in its evolution.
Authors will have the opportunity to submit their manuscripts directly for consideration to Science.
Spanish researchers are still waiting for the full implementation of a law which was approved six years ago.
Bill Radke talks to Paul Basken, science policy reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, about how we should consume news that reports on scientific research.
The issue regarding free access to academic journals and content is growing increasingly contentious, with founders of sites that enable this facing the might of the law. But should knowledge be exclusive?
The European Commission has offered funding for an internet for research data. But it’s unclear what it expects to get for its money.
It turns out that defining "raw" is a little trickier than it might seem.
Researchers had to remove the bird because they were worried it’d teach the others.
There is too little sound research on journal peer review.
Sci-Hub's contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals and 77.0% of the 5.2 million articles published by inactive journals.
An analysis of 15 million English scientific full-text articles published during the period 1823-2016.
Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.
Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better.
Humanity might have saved itself a lot of trouble in the long run by investing in the Einstein-Szilard approach to cooling water with fire.
A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper.
The 2014 REF results show only a very weak relationship between excellence in research and achieving societal impact.
Publishing platforms from The Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the European Commission alter Open Access.
The field of ecology is poised to take advantage of emerging technologies that facilitate the gathering, analyzing, and sharing of data, methods, and results.
