Opening up science so that all stages of the process can benefit from better interaction and communication and to provide examples for early career scientists writing grants.

Looking at some of the issues around the reuse of scientific data and open a conversation about how to deal with them.

A call on research organizations and their libraries to secure and earmark a share of their acquisition budgets to support the development of scientific publishing activities.

EMBL-EBI’s open chemistry data services combine curiosity-driven science and pragmatic solution-finding for drug discovery.

ResearchGate and Springer Nature have been in serious discussions for some time about finding solutions to sharing scientific journal articles online, while at the same time protecting intellectual property rights.

Analyses on the Microsoft Academic Graph to understand the changing nature of science over the course of the last century.

A browser extension that finds free scholarly full texts, metrics, and provides quick citation and sharing links automatically.

1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.

Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.

Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.

Knowledge Lab project to investigate programming features and data science environments.

Organization and presentation of visual information in the scientific literature.

After almost 25 years since Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal“, now, finally, scholars and the public have a range of avenues at their disposal to access nearly every scholarly article.

I was reminded today about the wonderful history of Nature in it's claim that it would make all papers reporting a new genome sequence freely and openly available.