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An explanation of the mandatory provision in the new Copyright Directive that ensures that faithful reproductions of public domain works of visual art cannot be subject to exclusive rights.
An image of three perpetually bouncing droplets, whose behaviour embodies a key theory in quantum physics, has won first place in the Royal Society Publishing photography competition. The award celebrates science and its beauty as portrayed through photography
Grant and funding withdrawals should be considered in cases of sexual harrassment, say researchers.
ASAPbio and EMBO Press have launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts in the life sciences before they are submitted to a journal.
Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild.
We would like to inform you that the Open Call is launched again in a new form and slightly modified topics.
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has selected OAPEN and DOAB for its second funding cycle.
The first version of our metadata input schema (a DTD, to be specific) was created in 1999 to capture basic bibliographic information and facilitate matching DOIs to citations. Over the past 20 years the bibliographic metadata we collect has deepened, and we've expanded our schema to include funding information, license, updates, relations, and other metadata. Our schema isn't as venerable as a MARC record or as comprehensive as JATS, but it's served us well.
Flying closer than any other mission, spacecraft set to unravel the sun's mysteries
Crowd-based prediction markets have even been shown to outperform intelligence analysts.
OASPA webinar of 2019: invitation to speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access.
It's time to embrace change. Today Europe PubMed Central (PMC) proudly unveils a new website, packed with useful features, including a better search and reading experience, as well as better access to data.
What is the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and why do we need it? Learn more from the team behind it (CDL, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science) in this interview with Alice Meadows.
Horizons should stimulate debate about research and science policy, writes Matthias Egger, the President of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate
It's a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time. Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late 1950s and political leaders have been discussing it for nearly as long. In 1961, Alvin Weinberg, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called carbon dioxide one of the "big problems"
Figures show 11,000 have left UK universities in three years since referendum.
An EPFL Bachelor's student has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for 100 years.
Most agencies claim a 100 per cent pass rate with zero risk of being found out. New laws are being drafted to target contract cheating in Australia.
Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions - a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.
CORE Discovery helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher's website. It is backed by our huge dataset of millions of full text open…
Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. The enhanced capability is expected to be a potent tool in helping all nations - not just European ones - better understand their carbon footprint.
A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.
This blog post is a joint announcement of an initiative by several publishers in collaboration with Fairsharing and DataCite to help authors select appropriate data repositories.
Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. The persistence of poor methods results partly from incentives that favour them, leading to the natural selection of bad science.
The incoming president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has given into demands that the word 'research' should feature in the research commissioner's job title, making the change at the last possible minute, just before the European Parliament confirmed the new team of commissioners in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
Foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested.
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region's system of mass surveillance.
