What it means for researchers.

Microsoft, Google and Baidu are joining forces in Open Academic Search, an initiative led by Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper.

The European Research Council is planning to reduce the budgets for its single-investigator grants in 2018, to fund the return of the multi-investigator Synergy Grants.

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Marc Edwards showed science and scholarship are powerful tools for social change.

ORCID have recognised ScienceOpen for leadership in integrating their services as part of their Collect and Connect program.

Authors will have the opportunity to submit their manuscripts directly for consideration to Science.

Macron's promise to ring fence university funding did not last two months, says the National Union of Higher Education.

Spanish researchers are still waiting for the full implementation of a law which was approved six years ago.

F1000 is reducing the open access publishing charges for all articles containing an interactive Plotly figure by 50%.

A small change would open up a whole new class of works for which publishers could demand payment for the use of small snippets, apparently including works that the author had released under an open access license.

Authorea, the collaborative document editor for researchers, announced a partnership and direct submission agreement with bioRxiv, the leading preprint server for biological research.