Approaches that have been shown to work and those which need more evidence before they can be recommended as widespread approaches.

Publons’ ECR Reviewer Choice Award celebrates early-career researchers' exceptional contribution to peer review, recognizing an individual who has been influential in the realm of peer review or has significantly contributed to improving the system.

The first OpenCon satellite event in Switzerland will take place on September 21-22 at the SNSF in Bern. Registrations are open until the end of August.

Smaller countries rely more on regional collaborations than on domestic interaction.  

After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.

Choosing wisely from a burgeoning array of digital tools can help researchers to record experiments with ease.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell's skills on the radio telescope were on point. Following the discovery of pulsars, Bell Burnell faced casual sexism from the media and public as well.

A fresh, practical look at how diversity impacts on engineering and strategies for change.

Briefing looking at what it means to provide inclusive careers advice and guidance, as well as some practical challenges of delivering this in higher education institutions.

The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.

Of the 60 Fields Medal winners since it’s launch in 1936 only one is female.

I want to see whether the wisdom of crowds does a better job than conventional grant review at supporting research, says Johan Bollen.

An interview with the directors of PsyArxiv, SocArxiv, and Marxiv.

Here we pay tribute to some of the most courageous, innovative, and determined genius female inventors while we walk through their remarkable discoveries and try to imagine how hard it was for them at times.

LGBT+ scientists offer advice for promoting inclusivity in a guide written for the physics and astronomy community.

Joel Clement reflects on his battle with Department of the Interior leadership

Coko Foundation is constructing an open source technology framework with separate components that can be assembled and reassembled to support a wide range of use cases. All code is open source under an MIT license.

One of the effects of the national negotiations happening in Europe is cracking the secrecy around the costs of the big publisher deals - and growing academic awareness of the case for change.

Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender.

Representative Bill Foster weighs in on the most important science issues facing the country.

Data on the career paths of young researchers would help to guide the lost generation.

On the research data repository Zenodo you can now view the number of views and downloads on record pages, and you can sort search results by most viewed.

Negotiations with Elsevier have stalled over Open Access deals.

Are you looking after your research data? This simple graphic provides a checklist of the key activities and requirements for making sure your research data is well managed.

Generation R is a new editorial platform based on themes, blogposts and learning resources. Its editor, Simon Worthington, answers questions concerning its scope and organization.

An outline of Hindawi's submitted proposal in response to the European Commission’s tender to launch a new publishing platform.

Despite the expansion of global Internet coverage and open access journals, research from outside of the United States and Europe is underrepresented.

Sarah Tesh and Jess Wade describe Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s highs and lows, as revealed in her recent IOP President’s Medal lecture.

The struggle to keep this resistant yeast from surging is a warning sign that relying on standard responses won't work. As the foes continue to evolve, medicine needs both new tech, and surprisingly old techniques, to fight its microbial wars.

After studying 23,005 comments left on videos about science and related topics, a researcher says, “I could see why people would not want to be on YouTube.”