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Cancel your plans for this weekend! CERN just dropped 300 terabytes of hot collider data on the world and you know you want to take a look.
Commission announces new Flagship plan with little fanfare
An outspoken biologist uses social media as a megaphone as he calls out his colleagues for hyping their research findings and ignoring women scientists.
Whilst Brexit looms more ominously in the background, the next generation of data publishing is moving towards an ever-more collaborative and open place in which researchers can easily choose to make discoveries and data sets available across borders and cultures.
Peer review hacking, where a fake identity is used to write a favorable review, is of growing concern to journal editors.
Vice President Joe Biden has met with thousands of stakeholders across all sectors, seeking suggestions for how to remove the barriers that are currently blocking progress in science, research, and development.
Figshare has brought science publishing into the digital age so that academics can publish and share their research fully
Op-ed: Big US companies could use patent licensing to throttle EU startups.
This study attempted to determine the percentage of published papers containing inappropriate image duplication, a specific type of inaccurate data.
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles.
The Commission today presented its blueprint for cloud-based services and world-class data infrastructure to ensure science, business and public services reap benefits of big data revolution.
Research council grants will escape anti-lobbying crackdown, government confirms.
There’s a replication crisis in biomedicine—and no one even knows how deep it runs.
This week, FORCE2016 is taking place in Portland, USA. The FORCE11 yearly conference is devoted to the utilisation of technological and open science advancements towards a new-age scholarship founded on easily accessible, organised and reproducible research data.
I get the feeling that some researchers regard public, post-publication peer review as a non-rigorous, non-structured and poor alternative to traditional peer review...
Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated.
A narrative review of empirical evidence
Government-funded research is behind any significant new product
The UK’s higher education institutions spend more than £180m on journal subscriptions every year. We need to come together and create a better system
Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.
Psychologist Tania Lombrozo and a colleague, both moms, built an academic conference keeping in mind parents who are trying to juggle the competing demands of caregiving and professional advancement.
And how to fix them. By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus.
A ban on state-funded academics using their work to question government policy is to begin on 1 May. It’s either a cock-up or a conspiracy
Surprising results add to fierce debate over how NIH funds graduate students
NSF geosciences advisory committee reveales the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.
