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What legal, as well as ethical and social, factors will ultimately shape the contours of open science? Should all restrictions be fought, or should some be allowed to persist, and if so, in what form?
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report points to more than 2,500 wars and other conflicts over fossil fuels, water, food and land to show how important nature is.
Following charges against a female scientist, some faculty at Switzerland's elite universities say the country has a gender equity problem.
Increases in APCs is proceeding at a rate three times that which would be expected if APCs were indexed according to inflation. As increasingly ambitious funder mandates are proposed, such as Plan S, it is important to evaluate whether authors show signs of price sensitivity in journal selection by avoiding journals that introduce or increase their APCs.
DORA is sometimes taken to be an initiative merely focused on criticising the undue influence of one specific metric, the journal impact factor (JIF). But to see DORA just in those terms overlooks the many positive prescriptions that the declaration lays out for how to reform research assessment.
The National Library of Medicine has quality control procedures in place, but some researchers believe additional scrutiny is necessary.
Alex Freeman describes how her love for storytelling propelled her from producing TV programmes to reinventing science publishing.
Improving the culture surrounding mental health for postgraduates and PhD students also crucial to maintaining a healthy research system.
The Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellows Program, supported by the Sloan Foundation, aims to train graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career researchers how to become champions for open, reproducible research using Frictionless Data tools and approaches in their field.
Negotiator says universities 'no longer willing to pay' big publishers without significant step towards open access.
At Springer Nature we want to find the fastest and most effective route to immediate open access (OA) for all primary research. This blog describes a potential significant way to progress it.
Open access has always been promoted for its reputational benefits. The OA citation advantage is one way in which advocates try to convince researchers of the benefits of publicly sharing their work. But researchers are also motivated by the need to publish in prestigious and ‘high-impact’ venues, which often precludes the possibility of open access forms of publication.
Colleagues, funders and institutions can support pregnant researchers in a variety of ways.
A team of researchers led by RIT Professor Casey Miller discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics.
Enabling researchers to develop and test innovative ways of making health research open, accessible and reusable.
A small body of evidence suggests that when it comes to decision making, indoor air may matter more than we have realized.
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has published a white paper on “Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage”.
It is well established that administrators and decision-makers use journal prestige and impact factors as a shortcut to assess research. But it is not enough to recognize the problem. Identifying specific approaches that publishers can take to address these concerns really is key.
Analysis of 30 leading institutions found that just 17% of study results had been posted online as required by EU rules.
Open-source software is largely developed by active scientists, yet university hierarchies and national funding bodies generally do not recognise code as valuable output.
Two years after its initial entry into the marketplace, Cabell's Blacklist has matured into a carefully crafted and highly useful directory of predatory and deceptive journals.
Marches were held at some 100 locations worldwide as part of a global day of action. Speakers at the NYC march touched on issues ranging from climate change and a Green New Deal to sexual harassment, gender inequity, and activism within STEM.
According to the latest data from the European University Association (EUA), only few higher education institutions have policies on research data management in place.
For years, scientists have declared P values of less than 0.05 to be "statistically significant." Now statisticians are saying the cutoff needs to go.
The development of preprint servers as self-organising peer review platforms could be the future of scholarly publication.
A project that aims to slash the cost of producing monographs could help make more of them available to the public for free. But will scholars participate?
