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Elsevier is allowing researchers in Germany to access its paywalled journals without a contract until a national agreement is hammered out.
Moon missions, ancient genomes and a publishing showdown are set to shape research.
Efforts to engage life science companies in open innovation have been hampered by the industry’s continued reticence to share. The result is shrinking pipelines, a wave of drug patent expirations ending in sudden drops in revenue, and poorly served public health.
The National Institutes of Health will again fund research that makes viruses more dangerous.
The stigma has a punitive effect on citations for prior collaborators of fraudulent researchers.
Scientists and career experts reveal how to take your job to the next level.
Initiatives are in place to keep early-career investigators in the biomedical system, but more support is needed.
Blockchain could lend security measures to the scientific process, but the approach has its own risks.
Philip Campbell to continue at publisher Springer Nature.
Lawsuit alleges that the institution mishandled complaints about cognitive scientist Florian Jaeger.
As a new president takes office, scientists in the country and beyond should urge the administration to make science a priority, says Dexter Tagwireyi.
Nature investigates how many papers really end up without a single citation.
Few options remain to halt the execution of disaster medicine researcher Ahmadreza Djalali.
Moves to create a multi-speed Internet could push science into the slow lane.
“How’s my paper doing?” It’s such a simple question, and in today’s hyperconnected world it’s relatively easy to work out who’s reading and talking about your scientific publications. But are there conversations you might be overlooking?
A push to reverse its brain drain is providing the expertise to tackle its domestic problems.
Negotiations to reduce journal prices and promote open access are progressing slowly.
Funders should not support policy-relevant work that treats policy impact as an afterthought.
Scientists who collaborate locally publish more papers and are more highly cited than those who engage in long-distance relationships.
Long-awaited industrial strategy pins hopes on commercial gains from research.
"It is not statistics that is broken, but how it is applied to science." - S. Goodman
A small community of scientists has taken a do-it-yourself approach to microscopy: when the right tool for the job doesn’t exist, make it.
Early career researchers have an essential role to play in the move towards open research.
