Earlier this year, we announced that six teams had made it through to the final of the Open Science Prize. We’re asking you to help us choose the three most impactful and novel prototypes from among the six finalists.

Vote now for he Open Science Prize, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the US NIH and the HHMI to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit.

iCite allows users ti upload the PubMed IDs of articles of interest, optionally grouping them for comparison. It then displays the number of articles, articles per year, citations per year, and Relative Citation Ratio, a field-normalized metric that shows the citation impact of one or more articles relative to the average NIH-funded paper.

Institutions struggle to respond after court blocks regulations that would have increased wages for junior researchers.

Preprints are one step towards an Open Science future.

India and China are the main winners in our list of the best universities in emerging economies

Consortium backed by US NIH is first major biology programme to mandate online publication of results ahead of peer review.

Are you having trouble staying on top of the ever-growing body of scientific knowledge? Science Careers asked a few scientists to discuss how they keep up with the literature.

Embargoes allow journals, universities, nonprofits, and corporations to decide what’s important — and when. That should be up to journalists.

On behalf of UK institutions, Jisc Collections has signed an agreement with Elsevier, covering access to research publications. The five-year, opt-in agreement offers subscription access to around 2,116 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect online platform.

John Wiley & Sons Inc. announced today plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of journals. Beginning in winter 2016, more than 500 Wiley journals using ScholarOne Manuscripts will require the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript. Wiley is proud to be the first major publisher to join other stakeholders that have signed ORCID’s open letter.

Every scientist wants his or her paper to appear in Cell, Nature or Science. In today’s scientific world, being associated with such publications is synonymous with prestige and excellence, opening doors to top positions and coveted awards.

Congress is poised to approve a massive piece of legislation that would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with $4.8 billion over the next decade for a set of research initiatives, including brain and cancer research and efforts to develop so-called precision medicine treatments that are tailored to an individual’s genetic makeup.

Women and men are equally able to perform excellent frontier research. This is the view of ERC Scientific Council. Each process within the ERC - from creating awareness about the ERC to signing of grant agreements – is designed to give equal opportunities to men and women. To monitor gender balance in ERC calls, in 2008, the ERC set up a dedicated working group. 

Scientific publications are getting more and more names attached to them

Experiments are invaluable and have, in the past, shown the consensus opinion of experts to be wrong. But those who fetishize this methodology can also impair progress toward the truth.

As the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rises comes into force this month, these are the universities that have, between 2011 and 2015, produced the environmental science research with the greatest impact