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In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
This week, we received a press release that caught our attention: A company is releasing software it claims will write manuscripts using researchers’ data.
Perverse incentives and the misuse of quantitative metrics have undermined the integrity of scientific research.
A review found them all flawed. Scientists who deny climate change are not modern-day Galileos.
More than a dozen members of the editorial board at Scientific Reports have resigned after the journal decided not to retract a 2016 paper that a researcher claims plagiarized his work. As of this morning, 19 people — mostly researchers based at Johns Hopkins — had stepped down from the board.
Researchers across Europe think the design of Framework 9 is suffering from a lack of British expertise because of Brexit, according to Venki Ramakrishnan.
Researchers should recognize communities that feel over-researched and under-rewarded.
Study finds male Ph.D. candidates submit and publish papers at significantly higher rates than their female peers, even within the same institution. The majors drivers of that gap remain unclear, but one factor is that women teach more during their Ph.D. programs and men serve more often as research assistants.
Digital Science continued independence is the best way to have the biggest impact in supporting research, researchers, publishers, funders and research institutions around the world.
The number of women in scientific research continues to lag behind the number of men, even though women make up half the nation's workforce. The question is, What difference does it make?
Nature seems to have a regular penchant for mocking scientists’ hopes and expectations.
A survey on open access books, revealed that of the 99 authors, 55.5% self-archived their chapters.
While part of the original motivation of the first research publication in serial form — the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665 — was to make money, the early history of scholarly publishing is largely one of community subsidy to cover losses or breaking even.
How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books? A white paper by Springer Nature.
Google, Facebook and Microsoft are protesting a looming injunction that would require search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop linking to or offering services to several "pirate" sites.
An analysis of a large database of medical research papers shows a correlation between women's authorship and the likelihood of a study including gender and sex analysis.
The Financial Times disclosed that Springer Nature has blocked access in China to at least 1,000 articles from the websites of two of its journals in response to Beijing’s censorship demands.
The latest medical innovation to spring from Aled Edwards’s University of Toronto lab isn’t a new protein structure or potential drug target – it’s a business model.
Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.
Ideally, we want science and scholarship to be not only available to the general public, but also comprehensible to them. But the challenges to doing so are real, and may vary both by discipline and by study type.
The American Chemical Society was granted an unprecedented injunction which requires search engines and ISPs to block Sci-Hub.
NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase to seek best practices for developing and managing a data commons.
Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe.
Considerations of open access models that can work across disciplines. The case of ELife, PLoS, and BioOne.
A challenge investigating reproducibility of empirical results submitted to the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations.
Data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal.
The planned overhaul would place new tax burdens on colleges and students, and some critics argue that it could undermine charitable giving to the institutions.
