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As a regular user of the scholarly literature since before the internet, I have closely followed its digitization. I find it rather frustrating that some of the most basic functionalities are still excluded.
In the past few months, three high-profile science conferences have ignited internet ire for their lack of representation of women.
UK leads drive towards more open way of sharing science, says Jo Johnson
The country desperately needs more egghead lawmakers. Right now, Capitol Hill has almost none.
The Chinese government finds almost 500 researchers guilty of misconduct in relation to a recent spate of retractions from a cancer journal.
From fungal networks sharing information and resources connecting all living things to the open source paradigm: Agroecology needs Open Access.
Günther Oettinger says research should be the only programme spared spending cuts as the EU weighs how to make up for losing the UK’s €11B per annum contribution.
SNSF grant-holders may deposit their scientific data in any recognized digital archive (commercial or not) that meets the FAIR principles.
Giving researchers the data skills they need to share, review, and validate each other’s work, writes Erin Becker.
It’s time for a global movement that pushes academic research beyond journal paywalls so it makes a difference in the world.
By joining the consortium, eLife will support the introduction of innovative new tools to help expand the current online open scholarly infrastructure.
To conserve Earth's remarkable species, we must also defend the importance of science and scientific integrity.
A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing.
A new paper argues that journal publishers should become much more transparent about their peer review practices.
Science should abandon its assembly-line mentality and rebuild for quality, not quantity, argues Michele Pagano.
Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better.
Humanity might have saved itself a lot of trouble in the long run by investing in the Einstein-Szilard approach to cooling water with fire.
The 2014 REF results show only a very weak relationship between excellence in research and achieving societal impact.
A list of instutions cancelling their contracts with Elsevier by the end of 2017.
Publishing platforms from The Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the European Commission alter Open Access.
The field of ecology is poised to take advantage of emerging technologies that facilitate the gathering, analyzing, and sharing of data, methods, and results.
What it means for researchers.
Life scientists told us whether they would like to share and read computationally reproducible research articles.
