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The EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships selection process undergoes analysis.
Elsevier's role in the EU's Open Science Monitor is examined more closely.
Concern for and interest in research integrity has increased significantly during recent decades, both in academic and in policy discourse.
Does it matter that there's no record of the Plan S leader publishing in a peer-reviewed journal?
Publicly funded research brings social and economic benefits for all. It's critical that the global academic community continues to champion this work, says Ian Jacobs
I write to provide feedback in an individual capacity on the Plan S implementation guidelines.
Scientists with first-hand experience of rejection offer their advice.
People often suffer from an 'illusion of knowledge,' write the authors of a new study that finds that people who hold the most extreme views about genetically modified foods know the least.
EU research chief Jean-Eric Paquet lays plans to refocus staff on policy goals, efficiency and cooperation with other parts of the Commission.
Wikipedia should be embraced by universities as an open-access source of information that can be the starting point for deeper research and learning, says John Lubbock.
And at NASA, nearly 200 postdocs furloughed
The sudden halt to US government functions leaves me worried about the effects on science for years to come, says Anne Jefferson.
Thousands of school children and university students across Switzerland skipped class on Friday to march in the streets and demand climate action, telling politicians "There is no planet B".
The Belgian biologist fears for the future of the pioneering UK Dementia Research Institute after Brexit
A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do, report Brian Uzzi and colleagues.
Reporting results from a comprehensive survey of publishers in the German-speaking world, Christian Kaier and Karin Lackner explore the attitudes of smaller publishers towards open access, finding …
Open Access mega-journals have in some academic disciplines become a key channel for communicating research. In others, however, they remain unknown. This article explores how authors’ perceptions of mega-journals differ across disciplines and are shaped by motivations associated with the multiple communities they function within.
To increase transparency in science, some scholarly journals have begun publishing peer review reports. Here, the authors show how this policy shift affects reviewer behavior by analyzing data from five journals piloting open peer review.
Lab gloves, fly food and charter planes - UK research institutes are preparing for a possible snap departure from the European Union in just 10 weeks.
Harvard Library and the MIT Libraries are in broad support of Plan S and its goals while also recomending certain adjustments to the implementation details.
Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll access journals open access, taking for granted that existing open access journals are Plan S compliant. We suspected this was not so, and set out to explore this using DOAJ's journal metadata. We conclude that an overwhelmingly large majority of open access journals are not Plan S compliant, and that it is small HSS publishers not charging APCs that are least compliant and will face major challenges with becoming compliant. Plan S need to give special considerations to smaller publishers and/or non-APC-based journals.
Details of the contract between the German consortium DEAL and Wiley reveal that the transformative nature of this new big deal may come at a high cost.
Alyson Fox, the Director of Grants at Wellcome, explains why they're changing their policy on transferring grants to ensure research can thrive in the UK, EU and beyond.
The necessity of developing a public infrastructure for open access, its benefits and the obstacles to reaching this goal.
When the year began, the world's largest academic publisher, Elsevier, had increased their annual profits, with an operating profit approaching US$1.2 billion in science, technology, and medicine - a profit margin of over 36%. By year's end, a hefty chunk of the world's research community was walking away from big subscription deals with Elsevier and others.
Trees are supposed to slow global warming, but growing evidence suggests they might not always be climate saviours.
If South Africa truly wants to encourage good research, it must stop paying academics by the paper.
A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.
