Send us a link
A historian recounts the National Institutes of Health's 1960s pilot test of exchanging unreviewed manuscripts, and how publishers killed it.
New preprint services could bring niche scientific communities into the open.
If we can get our minds around Premier League statistics, we can handle experimental science, writes physics professor Tom McLeish
Nature Plants explains how it handled a manuscript coauthored by Patrice Dunoyer, a biologist with multiple retractions to his name.
Replicating our work took four years and 100,000 worms but brought surprising discoveries, explain Gordon J. Lithgow, Monica Driscoll and Patrick Phillips.
Academics pressure publisher as Beijing mouthpiece says western institutions can leave if they don’t like ‘the Chinese way’
Mapping research funding in Switzerland
The meaningless tasks and faux-business strategies prioritised by British universities have skewed their real role, writes André Spicer
Leaders in the fields of AI and robotics, including Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman, have signed a letter calling on the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons.
Two years ago this month, news of the replication crisis reached the front page of the New York Times.
The Cambridge University Press faced academic outrage after agreeing to remove articles about Tibet, Tiananmen Square and China's Cultural Revolution.
New paper illustrates the brutal and sexist comments faced by women in economics, and likely other fields as well.
A lack of recognition for the value of failure holds back creative risk-taking in science.
Academics and activists decry publisher’s decision to comply with a Chinese request to block more than 300 articles from leading China studies journal.
Good management can make an enormous difference in the success and productivity of any team.
Open science is becoming more and more prevalent. Critics, however, think this approach makes it easier to steal somebody else’s ideas.
A quantitative analysis of contemporary publishing patterns in the humanities, as well as a conceptual account of the historical relationship of publishing practices to the modern research university.
Self-citations, if left unchecked, can have a negative impact on the scientific workforce, the way that we publish new knowledge, and ultimately the course of scientific advance.
New 2017 Top 500 world university rankings conducted by CWCU of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities).
Not content with impersonating IRS agents, phone scammers now are pretending to work for the NIH, telling victims that they’ve won a grant but must pay a fee in order to get the money.
In the quest to make scientific publications free to read and free to publish, the million-dollar question is: how can it be sustainable?
