Evaluation reforms will go round in circles without conceptual clarity, warns Anna Hatch.

Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate

Horizons should stimulate debate about research and science policy, writes Matthias Egger, the President of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

What is the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and why do we need it? Learn more from the team behind it (CDL, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science) in this interview with Alice Meadows.

It's time to embrace change. Today Europe PubMed Central (PMC) proudly unveils a new website, packed with useful features, including a better search and reading experience, as well as better access to data.

OASPA webinar of 2019: invitation to speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access.

Crowd-based prediction markets have even been shown to outperform intelligence analysts.

Flying closer than any other mission, spacecraft set to unravel the sun's mysteries

The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has selected OAPEN and DOAB for its second funding cycle. 

We would like to inform you that the Open Call is launched again in a new form and slightly modified topics.

More than 800 PLOS articles have already been published with accompanying peer review history, transforming options for transparency in the assessment process.

Forty-three Chinese universities should be considered "very high" or "high" risk collaborators because of their involvement in research for military and defence purposes, according to an Australian think tank.

Proportions of female students and those from under-represented ethnic groups are rising, yet parity is a way off.

Proposals include new job classifications, a rolling back of metrics, and shorter publication lists in a bid to end excessive 'emphasis on research performance'.

Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild.

He Jiankui's manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.

A physicist has become embroiled in a sexism row with Wikipedia after profiles she created for female scientists were removed because they were "not notable enough".

Racial discrimination by algorithms or by people is harmful - but that's where the similarities end.

UK health service will not gain commercial benefit from future Amazon products using its data

In memory of Margarita Salas, the biochemist whose discoveries led to faster, more-accurate DNA testing.

ASAPbio and EMBO Press have launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts in the life sciences before they are submitted to a journal.