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The many bottlenecks that the commercial monopoly on research information has imposed are stimulating new strategies.
Science chats with two experts about what future paleontologists-or perhaps even visiting aliens-might find.
Protect time for deep thinking - it is crucial for productivity in a world of constant interaction, urges Heidi Rehm.
Researchers are at the very heart of the EOSC. So, what do our researchers say one year after the launch of the initiative? How do they think will they benefit from the EOSC? What are and what can be their roles? Let's see what physicist Toma Susi has to say.
Widely expected Plan S-style order hailed as 'major boost' to global movement
For years, scientists poured their hearts into work to develop vaccines. And, for years, they saw promising work smash up against unscalable walls.
The UK prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings wants scientific approaches to inform government - but researchers worry his view is simplistic.
A tool that focuses on papers - not researcher behaviour - can help readers, editors and institutions assess which publications to trust.
It's hard to know just how many scientists have turned to activism in the last few years. But many researchers say they've noticed a change.
A Nobel laureate is being praised for retracting a scientific paper that was not reproducible.
Sharing your work by self-archiving: encouragement from the Journal of the Medical Library Association
Exhausting, expensive, and exclusive, these conferences needs to be modernized. The future of science depends on it.
You've seen the news: COP25, the recent UN climate talks in Madrid, ended in disappointment and also set a record for the longest-ever COP. UCS's press release headline says it all: World's Nations Take Immoral Stance at COP25, Side with Trump, Bolsonaro Rather Than Youth Across the Globe. Here are
Peer review can increase the chances of future collaboration, but it doesn't help much against author conflicts of interest.
In a stinging rebuke of the Trump administration’s handling of science, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advisory panel has found major shortcomings in the agency’s pursuit of key regulatory rollbacks.
Artificial intelligence used to carry out automated, targeted hacking is set to be one of the major threats to look out for in 2020, according to a cybersecurity expert.
Fifty percent of the open access journals listed in DOAJ in 2019 are published in Europe, and the United Kingdom is the biggest publisher of OA journals in DOAJ.
Employers are missing the opportunity to support career changes, upskilling, and return to work opportunities which are relevant and inclusive to a diverse range of people.
Approaches for assessing the costs and benefits of publishing scientific data in various repositories are evaluated. The article identifies metrics useful for the reporting of their data services.
If you're working on a research project in biology, you'll need citations in the life sciences. But what is life science? Here's a guide for researchers.
Let 2020 be the year in which we value those who ensure that science is self-correcting.
How has peer review fared in the 2010s? We outline some key trends that have helped to define, challenge and progress the peer review system over the decade.
What we learned from the spy in your pocket.
The vaccine, developed by Merck, protects against Zaire ebolaviruses, the species of the virus that has been the most common cause of Ebola outbreaks.
