Over half of the massive US student-loan debt comes from graduate schools, and it's a sign master's degrees aren't the path to wealth they used to be.
How Flipping a Journal Became About More Than Just Open Access
This report reveals how global research and discovery is evolving to address poverty, reduce inequality and deal with the effects of climate change via the UN SDGs.
Connections prove resilient as researchers circumvent geopolitical obstacles.
Some funders and publishers call it unethical, for others, it's par for the course.
Carnegie Mellon University, a longtime proponent of open-access research, is championing an international movement to revolutionize academic publishing.
This report provides quantitative and descriptive data on the availability and usage of various open access options in different fields and subdisciplines. Its goal was to inform Coalition S funders on the open access options and identify fields where there is a need to increase the share of open access journals/platforms.
The publisher is committed to financial sustainability. How it achieves it is an open question.
Scientists should take a more intentional, evidence-based approach to mentoring, including tenure and promotion incentives, according to an upcoming report from the US National Academies.
This report from the Royal Historical Society (RHS) assesses the extent of History journals’ engagement with, and preparedness for, implementation of Plan S-aligned open access (OA) mandates.
Study sent the same dataset to 70 teams for analysis, and no two teams chose identical workflows to analyze the data.
A recent opinion paper by Richard Poynder offers analysis and prognostication with regard to the current state and future prospects of the open access movement.
Can journals help to “protect” the scientific community and the public from unscrupulous reanalysis of data?
We just integrated Plaudit across OSF preprint servers, now allowing researchers to openly endorse papers they find valuable.
The market model in higher education has created an intellectual precariat who are right to fight back.
Data stewardship encompasses all of the various tasks and responsibilities that relate to research data management throughout the entire research lifecycle. It has been discussed at the 14th RDA Plenary in Helsinki by research, industry and policy experts.
An overview of some of the background, considerations, and discussions on some of the topics surrounding publishing open access.
cOAlition S endorse a number of strategies to encourage subscription publishers to transition to Open Access.
An insiders' term for scientific malpractice has worked its way into pop culture. Is that a good thing?
With more agreements including some form of Open Access, consortia and academic institutions need to monitor the number of Open Access publications, the costs and the value of these agreements.
A visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike.
Publishers rarely make publication fee spending for hybrid journals transparent. Elsevier is a remarkable exception, as the publisher provides open and machine-readable data relative to its central invoicing with funding bodies and fee waivers at the article level.
It's time to trust students to handle doubt and diversity in science, says Jerry Ravetz.
A study of protein databases shows that discoverers who are second to publish still end up getting a substantial portion of the recognition.
The city of Zurich published data sets of attractions, destinations, restaurants and accommodation that can be freely reused under a CC BY-SA license.
