Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.

Offering seamless access to millions of open access research papers, enrich the collected data for text-mining and provide unique services to the research community.

When statistical fudging is buried in the way data are sliced and diced after the fact or put through tortured analysis in a search for significant results.

With the recent acquisition of bepress by Elsevier, we’ve been asked by a number of people if Open Journal Systems is next.

Various women who have inspired us for their trailblazing efforts in science.

Sue Finley began working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory three days before the US space program launched its first satellite.

Recent negotiations & cancellations.

Current estimates for the cost of subscription articles converge around US$5,000 per article. This number is reached by dividing the estimated US$10b spent on subscriptions annually world-wide.

Fostering collaboration and good data practices in faculties.

The preservation of software has become as essential as preserving research articles and data sets.

As researchers, we are unlikely to spend much time reflecting on one of the often-forgotten pillars of science: scientific publishing. Naturally, our focus leans more towards traditional academic activities including teaching, mentoring graduate students and post docs, and the next exciting experiment that will allow us to advance our understanding.

We talk to Dr Richard Bowman about designing 3D-printable microscopes.

Because knowing where to look is half the battle.