Science PhD programmes cater almost exclusively to students bound for academia, but they don't have to.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) announce they are the first of the United Nations agencies to join COAlition S. This commitment will ensure that all WHO and TDS supported health research will be free to read online on the day it is published.

Springer Nature has reached an open access publishing deal with 700 German research universities, but it faces some pushback.

Assessment of risk of bias is regarded as an essential component of a systematic review on the effects of an intervention. The most commonly used tool for randomised trials is the Cochrane risk-of-bias tool. We updated the tool to respond to developments in understanding how bias arises in randomised trials, and to address user feedback on and limitations of the original tool. 

Co-chairs of the implementation task force of the international research-funder consortium cOAlition S clarify their position with regard to financially supporting the important transition to full open access after 2024.

cOAlition S announces that Johan Rooryck, Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University, has been appointed as its Open Access Champion.

Sociologist says journal dismissed her paper because she'd shared it elsewhere as a preprint -- even though the publication had a pro-preprint policy. How often does this happen?

In response to the public health emergency of opioid misuse, the NIH intends to maximize the availability of Publications and the sharing of underlying data for NIH-Supported HEAL research projects.

Agreement will make thousands of German-authored papers freely available worldwide every year.

Comment on a Times Higher Education on a strange and awkward piece from a representative of Elsevier.

A call for people who would like to join a collaborative process to further explore and write the systematic literature review on “Teaching Open Science“.

Over the last year, millions of school climate strikers have been leaving their classrooms every Friday. Young people have woken up much of the world, and now they are asking for everyone else to join them in action.

If the country's main science-funding agency doesn't get more cash soon, young researchers will stop getting paid.

About nine-in-ten Americans see research scientists as intelligent, while a smaller majority describe them as good communicators.

Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters - but researchers warn against policing self-citation.

Changes to the United States' landmark conservation law make it easier to strip threatened species of the strongest protections.

Long after most chemists had given up trying, a team of researchers has synthesized the first ring-shaped molecule of pure carbon — a circle of 18 atoms.

The long-standing debate over open access to research results has been marked by a geographic divide - but the divide is starting to blur.

The Government Accountability Office found that the administration "did not consistently ensure" that appointees to E.P.A. advisory boards met federal ethics requirements.

Making decisions before conducting analyses requires practice. Respecting both what was planned and what actually happened requires good judgment and humility in making claims. With the accelerating adoption of preregistration, we now face the challenge of figuring out how to use this methodology to its fullest potential.

As it turns out, many Ph.D. students resent the expectation that they bring food and drinks to their thesis defenses. UCLA's psychology department just said they shouldn't do it.

In the past month, PLOS ONE and Transplantation have retracted fifteen studies by authors in China because of suspicions that the authors may have used organs from executed prisoners.

Prominent UC faculty suspend service on editorial boards of Cell Press journals to bring publisher Elsevier back to the bargaining table.

Preprints will be included in the Research Excellence Framework, the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in higher education institutions.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants a new fast-track visa system to attract leading scientists to work in the UK.

Jaqueline Zhao and Tim Jackson discuss the new regulations for China in 2019, after the gene-editing scandal which created international headlines.

Elsevier made legal threats, claiming that the mere act of linking to Sci-Hub was itself illegal. Yet Elsevier's own journals turn out to be full of links to Sci-Hub.

UCL's new megajournal 'UCL Open' has published its first article, delivering on our commitment to provide academics, students and the general public with ground-breaking research free of charge.

Top universities are dropping some of the hardest A-levels from their entry requirements to attract more girls and poorer pupils on to courses dominated by male and middle-class students.

Public confidence in scientists is on the upswing, and six-in-ten Americans say scientists should play an active role in policy debates about scientific issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.