Government funding is a relatively recent phenomenon, but scientific progress is not.

Linked Open Data may sound good and noble, but it’s the wrong way around.

Evaluating academic performance on the basis of journal publications is skewing research priorities. This does our public funders a disservice.

Liz Allen looks into what peer review actually tells us and how we use expert opinion.

I recently decided to abandon the rules that govern nature for the rules that govern people and markets: economics. Why would I do such a thing?

Exploring research career transitions and shaping research culture in the UK.

The world’s most potent technologists are stranded in today’s innovation ecosystem.

It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell.

It'€™s not robot overlords. It'€™s economic inequality and a new global order.

Implicit biases are pervasive and unavoidable. But they can be changed.

Policy makers, educators and society at large need to have a more fundamental understanding of the way science works – and the way it should be funded.

FAIR doesn’t actually require the data or software to be openly available.

Now that the major players have agreed to the giant European Open Science Cloud, it’s time to get the project moving.

As the number of publishers that choose profit over ethics grows, find out how to avoid their scams and support organizations promoting best practices in scholarly communication.

How retractions and peer-review problems are exploited to attack science.

His experiences on a panel reviewing Canadian grant allocation has convinced Jonathan Grant that the evidence base for current practice needs serious reinforcement.

Louis Pasteur was a scientific giant of the nineteenth century, but, as Joseph Gal asks, was his most famouscontribution to the understanding of chemistry — chirality — influenced more by his artistic talents?

This article is a first-hand account of Jeffrey Beall’s work identifying and listing predatory publishers from 2012 to 2017.

It is surely misguided for funding agencies — for instance, the Swiss National Science Foundation — to prohibit the use of commercial data platforms by grant-holders.

Or why we should choose what to fund at random.

Why do we need middlemen in academia in the era of electronic publishing?

Computational scientists develop a system for spotting data overdue for public release, and end up getting hundreds of open-access datasets corrected.

How academic publishing may change in the years to come.

Open-access mandates have the potential to significantly harm the publishing industry, writes the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

Things that haven’t worked for decades in the space are starting to work; and we are going beyond just tools and embedded functions.

The author of a new study of biomedical funding explains why he’s optimistic about young scientists’ futures.

Funding research solely on the basis of excellence ignores the crucial role science plays in improving local economies and societies

B.S. expressed as data is relatively new outside scientific circles.

Peer review recognition company Publons is set to expand under new owners. Could this boost peer review and stop it being seen as an onerous, thankless task?

Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.