The surveys are rife with bias, and educational and legal considerations are upping the pressure to change them and maybe even eliminate them.

Despite repeatedly expressing public support for children’s health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants’ effects on child development.

From now, house style guide recommends terms such as 'climate crisis' and 'global heating'.

Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?

The new Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE) journal is attempting to fight publication bias.

Six candidate research proposals lost in limbo.

An infographic showing the prevalence of mental health problems in PhD students. It also gives information on how one can overcome these problems.

Open Knowledge for Latin America and the Global south (AmeliCA) is pleased to be part of this initiative that furthers an open, scalable, long-lasting scientific infrastructure that seeks to spread its benefits worldwide.

The two-page brochure describes the impact of Electronic Information for Libraries' (EIFL) open science training at universities and research institutes in Africa and Europe.  

Some publishers are considering an approach they hope will both comply with "Plan S" and maintain their subscription income: allowing authors to post manuscripts in public archives as soon as their papers are published.

The 2019 edition of the CWTS Leiden Ranking introduces indicators of open access publishing and gender diversity. 

This article presents a new initiative from the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden (CWTS), to assess gender inequality in research publication across different institutions internationally and drive further change in the sector.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will soon invite applications for open source software projects that are essential to biomedical research. Applicants can request funding between $50k and $250k for one year. 

Recognizing the benefits, we move from merely supporting the use of preprint servers to promoting it.

State and federal government pledge €17 billion in extra funds through 2030.

New research says early failure in the sciences may be beneficial in the long run.

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report points to more than 2,500 wars and other conflicts over fossil fuels, water, food and land to show how important nature is.

Some of the most successful free-to-publish Open Access endeavors have been emerging from arts and humanities in response to the particular needs of the humanities scholars concerning publishing formats, academic evaluation, and funding availability.

The National Library of Medicine has quality control procedures in place, but some researchers believe additional scrutiny is necessary.

It's rare to see women and people of color in medical textbooks, researcher Rhiannon Parker says.

Negotiator says universities 'no longer willing to pay' big publishers without significant step towards open access.

The Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellows Program, supported by the Sloan Foundation, aims to train graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career researchers how to become champions for open, reproducible research using Frictionless Data tools and approaches in their field.

Enabling researchers to develop and test innovative ways of making health research open, accessible and reusable.

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has published a white paper on “Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage”.

Marches were held at some 100 locations worldwide as part of a global day of action.  Speakers at the NYC march touched on issues ranging from climate change and a Green New Deal to sexual harassment, gender inequity, and activism within STEM.

After serving as editor-in-chief of an Elsevier journal for over seven years, Lajos Balogh decided to channel his publishing knowledge to a new endeavor. He and a group of fellow editors started a publishing organization and journal of their own.

The ORCID Nominations Committee is now welcoming nominations for Board members to serve from 2020 - 2022. Learn how, when and why to get involved.

It is well established that administrators and decision-makers use journal prestige and impact factors as a shortcut to assess research. But it is not enough to recognize the problem. Identifying specific approaches that publishers can take to address these concerns really is key.

A project that aims to slash the cost of producing monographs could help make more of them available to the public for free. But will scholars participate?