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You might see science as splashy headlines and a barrage of new results—but in the background are people with emotions and ambitions, politics, and a system that promotes publishing novel findings above all. A new paper on eel navigation highlights some of these systemic troubles.
Learn about the open access publishing model in Latin America which helps disseminate scientific knowledge without restrictions.
All stakeholders in the scientific research enterprise -- researchers, institutions, publishers, funders, scientific societies, and federal agencies – should improve their practices and policies to respond to threats to the integrity of research, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The impact of crisis of reproducibility on the patent system.
The Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication, which was in the planning since 4 years, will be held September 10-12, 2017, in Chicago.
An international initiative that aims to induce the swift, smooth and scholarly-oriented transformation of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing.
A second generation of gig economy startups is abandoning a dependence on contractors in favor of full employees.
We’re collaborating with the China Go Association and Chinese Government to bring AlphaGo, China’s top Go players, and leading AI experts together for the “Future of Go Summit.”
Altmetrics is a novel method to track and measure the social impact of scientific publications and also the influence of a researcher.
Scientific output in Japan has seen a sharp decline in the last decade due to years of inflation, government debt, rising commodity prices and a series of natural disasters.
A new organization, I4OC, is working towards making reliable, structured data of authors, reference lists, and citations accessible to the public.
On April 22nd, 2017, the March For Science, Geneva, will be one of hundreds of marches taking place around the world to affirm that science is crucial to society — and belongs to everyone.
OMICtools bridges the gap between life science and computational biology.
Optional license allows students, researchers, and staff to make scholarly articles freely available.
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.
A coalition of scholarly publishers, researchers, and nonprofit organizations launched the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a project to promote the unrestricted open access to scholarly citation data.
While the US accounts for 75% of global digital health deal share, deal flow to international startups continues to climb.
MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee has won the most prestigious honor in computer science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award. Often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize provided by Google.
Open Science DB is a grassroots movement led by graduate students in science who aspire to make scientific research more accessible to the public.
The vision for what is hoped to be the largest science advocacy event in history.
The revised Code addresses recent and emerging challenges emanating from technological developments, open science, citizen science and social media, among other areas.
Discovering that there is a way to get out from the situation which keeps us locked into the legacy publishing system.
Advances in automation technology mean that robots and artificial intelligence programs are capable of performing an ever-greater share of our work,
Case studies and lessons from the data-intensive science.
OpenTrials is an open database for clinical trials developed by Open Knowledge International to help researchers and patients get useful information from clinical trial materials.
