The president of Switzerland's top-ranked university says his institution is tentatively getting back to speed after the coronavirus lockdown - but that this is harder than anticipated.

As budgets tighten and the need for open resources swells, efforts to fund essential Open Science services remains critical, as claims the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS).

A report on masks relied on unfounded assumptions, researchers charged, and the authors were permitted to choose their own reviewers.

Information for Wellcome-funded organisations on how to implement responsible and fair approaches for research assessment that meet the expectations set out in Wellcome's open access policy 2021.

We hoped that Covid-19 would be a seasonal infection. We hoped wrong.

Key decisions on the revised submission deadline and impact assessment period have been confirmed, following a recent survey gathering views from the higher education sector.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) partners with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Yale University, and BMJ to help scientists share health and clinical research faster.

Over the last few months we've been in conversation with colleagues in higher education about what they see as the challenges that lie ahead as they weigh reopening plans and longer term effects of the global pandemic. Starting June 29th, we will be launching our first research effort to support institutional decision-making in research and scholarship.

Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data. One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics.

Nature asked authors and editors for advice on how to improve peer-review communication.

Experts call for legislation and trade deals worldwide to encourage green recovery.

Early-career researchers feel discouraged from exposing vulnerability even during a global crisis.

New calculations come up with estimate for worlds capable of communicating with others.

"Deeply entrenched systemic racism exists in every sector of our society, including at Yale and in this department," a group of undergraduates wrote in response.

Today's deal between the University of California and publisher Springer Nature is a big milestone on the path to dismantling paywalls around academic journals.

In a large trial, a cheap and widely available steroid cut deaths by one-third among patients critically ill with COVID-19.

While the use of preprints has increased over the last years, preprint awareness and attitudes vary widely across research communities and among stakeholders in research communication.

The University of California today (June 16) announced a transformative open access publishing agreement that will make more of the University's research freely and immediately available to individuals and researchers across the globe.

A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess.

163 years of The Atlantic's writing on race and racism in America.

How understanding this cinematic trope can illuminate COVID-era exploitation

Vietnam chose to prevent rather than fight Covid-19, a strategy which means it has had no virus deaths.

How can online workshops be productive, engaging, caring and fun? How can researchers creatively adapt to a 'virtual normal' and develop caring and co-operative ways of working.

As scientists, we try to make sure our research is rigorous so that we can avoid costly errors. We should take the same approach to tackle issues in research culture, says Professor Christopher Jackson.

Just 15% of professors at Eindhoven University of Technology were women until it introduced a radical new scheme.

Over 150 Georgia State University faculty members signed an open letter to the school's president, Mark Becker, regarding a greater push for diversity and inclusion within its faculty.

New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet peer reviewers did not see raw data behind findings before publication.

Institute ends negotiations for a new journals contract in the absence of a proposal aligning with the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.

Don't blame last week's journal retractions on the scary pace of the pandemic. "Once-in-a-lifetime" scandals like this seem to happen all the time.