A fresh take on scientific workforce diversity approaching it as a scientific opportunity rather than as an intractable problem.

Crowdsourcing research can balance discussions, validate findings and better inform policy.

You may not have the time or interest to read the guidebook’s full 85 pages, but it’s a great compilation of resources that can be a valuable compass as you navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of a postdoctoral fellowship.

Switzerland named world’s most competitive economy, again, for the seventh year in a row.

A OECD Report on the benefits and the action required to make open science a reality.

A new regulatory framework for the 21st century.

An update of the DFG's funding atlas.

BMC editors show that the quality of peer review is slightly higher in BMC Infectious Diseases that operates open peer review compared to BMC Microbiology operating single-blind peer review.

Ebook covering key insights about traditional and alternative research impact indicators.

The current and future issues around post-publication open peer review and the protagonists and platforms that encourage open peer review, pre-and post-publication.

The potential benefits and challenges that could arise from the use of quotas as one way to achieve better gender balance in academia.

Study reveals gender bias favoring male applicants over female applicants in the prioritization of their “quality of researcher” evaluations and success rates.

Gender studies as an interdisciplinary field has a distinctive engagement with interdisciplinarity.

Research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress.

Scientific dishonesty essentially results from an incentive problem.

‘Overflow’ has important implications for the integrity of modern biomedical science.

Study was commissioned by Universities UK's Open Access Co-ordination Group.

What if every creative endeavor had to go through Peer Review? Indira M Raman considers the possibility.

For the benefits of digital medicine to be fully realized, we need not only to find a shared home for personal health data but also to give individuals the right to own them.

Insights into the most prevalent issues hindering the development of open access.

Performance-related pay causes the best academics to cluster together, evidence from Germany suggests.

This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining by academic researchers.

View and perspectives on Open Science.

As interest in and use of article-level metrics grows, it is critical to ensure secure and reliable data that is trustworthy and can be used by all.

Proposed Twitter-based altmetric would treat retweets like citations.

At Chaos Communication Camp 2015, a researcher explained how to jump paywalls, obtain academic research and freely share that research without getting arrested.

Poor countries often complain that their best minds are draining away—and for the most part they are right. The poorer the country, the larger the proportion of inventors who push off.

This paper asks the question: do people with different levels of research productivity and identification as a researcher think of research differently?

Science hackathons can help academics, particularly those in the early stage of their careers, to build collaborations and write research proposals.

[21]New analysis of interdisciplinary collaboration across the UK research landscape highlights important questions about how we organise, fund and assess research.