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This week, six communities launched preprint services to accelerate dissemination of research.

Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.

With help from drug companies, Omics International is making millions as it roils the scientific community with sketchy publications.

Bo Rothstein quits Blavatnik School of Government post after learning that patron is a major financial backer of US president.

It might just reinvent the entire medical publishing process.

Researchers were told to censor descriptions of projects funded by a Department of Energy laboratory.

At a research facility in France 35 countries are working on a project that could transform energy.

Disputed internal study implies institute favored big labs run by men

Over the last 2 years more than 150 German libraries, universities, and research institutes have formed a united front trying to force academic publishers into a new way of doing business.

A physics professor explains why male scientists devalue research that shows gender bias in the field.

New preprint services could bring niche scientific communities into the open.

A historian recounts the National Institutes of Health's 1960s pilot test of exchanging unreviewed manuscripts, and how publishers killed it.

New study casts doubts on whether more information about science can really change someone's mind.

The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles.

If we can get our minds around Premier League statistics, we can handle experimental science, writes physics professor Tom McLeish

Replicating our work took four years and 100,000 worms but brought surprising discoveries, explain Gordon J. Lithgow, Monica Driscoll and Patrick Phillips.

Nature Plants explains how it handled a manuscript coauthored by Patrice Dunoyer, a biologist with multiple retractions to his name.

The Cambridge University Press faced academic outrage after agreeing to remove articles about Tibet, Tiananmen Square and China's Cultural Revolution.

What it's like to work the night shift in a science lab

Two years ago this month, news of the replication crisis reached the front page of the New York Times.

Leaders in the fields of AI and robotics, including Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman, have signed a letter calling on the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons.

Academics pressure publisher as Beijing mouthpiece says western institutions can leave if they don’t like ‘the Chinese way’

A new study analyzes how economists talk about each other in an online forum, and finds unmistakable signs of hostility toward women.

Academics and activists decry publisher’s decision to comply with a Chinese request to block more than 300 articles from leading China studies journal.

The UK government’s proposals on science in the Brexit negotiations will be set out in a paper to be released by the end of September.

You can begin to trace the influence of your ideas with other researchers by tracking not only who cited you but who also cited the authors who were citing you.

FDA says new security policy could bar hiring of about 50 foreign nationals per year

Effort backed by the state’s flagship universities comes as US President Donald Trump shrugs off global warming.

Fertility centres are making a massive push to increase preimplantation genetic diagnosis in a bid to eradicate certain diseases.