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IndiaRxiv is the latest of several preprint servers set up to host research from a particular region.

Swiss funding agency banned applicant-nominated referees after a 2016 study found evidence of bias. Those results are now being made public.

Thousands of Nature referees have chosen to be publicly acknowledged.

Survey finds that 40% of research-intensive universities mention the controversial metric in review documents - despite efforts to dampen its influence.

Community-developed standards, such as those for the identification, citation and reporting of data, underpin reproducible and reusable research, aid scholarly publishing, and drive both the discovery and the evolution of scientific practice.

Atmospheric scientist Angie Pendergrass spoke to Nature about a newly-published guide to broadening participation in conferences.

Why Germany is becoming a career destination for many researchers.

Hard-drive failures are inevitable, but data loss doesn't have to be.

Academics and editors need to stop pretending that software always catches recycled text and start reading more carefully, says Debora Weber-Wulff.

Academic-conference season is upon us, says Jennifer Tsang. Should I advance my career? Or pay my rent?

US law requires researchers to post study findings on a public registry within a year of completion - or face heavy fines.

Looking beyond a much used and abused measure would make science harder, but better.

Hundreds of thousands of people protested in London to push for a say on the terms of the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.

Women starting up research groups face more obstacles than their male peers, a UK survey finds.

Robert P. Crease harks back to the shapers of our scientific infrastructure and what they can tell us about how to handle the threat we now face.

Eric Lander, Françoise Baylis, Feng Zhang, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Berg and specialists from seven countries call for an international governance framework on genome editing.

The government will assess whether a UK granting scheme could help make up for lost EU research funding.

Nature welcomes a registry that supports experiments to improve refereeing.

ReimagineReview records trials that are probing the pros and cons of different approaches to review.

University of California and Dutch publisher fail to strike deal that would allow researchers to publish under open-access terms.

The proportion of open-access publications with authors from the pharmaceutical industry doubled between 2009 and 2016.

As departure day approaches, chief of top UK lab says he fears science will drop off the government's agenda.

Six male researchers describe their efforts to support their female colleagues.

The hunt for male and female distinctions inside the skull is a lesson in bad research practice.

Publishers say that the bold open-access initiative rules out proven ways of opening up the literature.

To be successful as researchers, we must be able to think through the impacts of our work on society and speak up when necessary.

eLife's departing editor talks about the seismic changes he sees coming - and why some journals will lose out.

Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel calls for formal action to bake in better research practices.

Rare effort to track wages reveals inconsistencies and a gender pay gap.

Many academics have strong incentives to influence policymaking, but may not know where to start. Recent research has examined the ‘how to’ advice in the academic peer-reviewed and grey literatures.