The social-media platform is often a tool for procrastination, says Jet-Sing M. Lee. But what else can it be?

  This article by Dr Hélène Draux, Research Data Scientist at Digital Science, and Dr Suze Kundu, Head of Public Engagement at Digital Science takes note of 11th February, the annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

With thousand of pages of feedback on the Plans S implementation guidance, what themes emerged that might guide next steps?

In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.

OPERAS, the European research infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in the Social Sciences and Humanities, provides its recommendations to the guidance document on the implementation of Plan S.

The community-curated website aims to connect early-career researchers with funding opportunities, useful resources and each other.

Are you participating in a H2020 funded project? Would you like to know more on how to comply with the H2020 Open Access mandate? Join in this moderated FOSTER/OpenAIRE Course on Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020.

To help us better understand and meet the needs of our current and future users, we invite you to complete this survey of what you know about ORCID, whether - and if so, how - you currently use ORCID and your experiences of doing so, what’s working and what isn’t, and more.

As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the of the OA journal output in the DOAJ*, OASPA is of course very supportive of the intentions of Plan S, as we commented previously at the beginning of October.

We first announced plans to investigate identifiers for grants in 2017 and are almost ready to violate the first rule of grant identifiers which is “they probably should not be called grant identifiers”.

A US project is exploring the use of software to assign confidence levels to published research.  

Unlike most faulty research practices, fraud actively evades detection. It is also overlooked because the scientific community has been unwilling to have frank and open discussions about it.

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Europe PMC’s mission to support innovation based on open access content is well aligned with the fundamental principles of Plan S.

Open Access publishing is more widespread in Latin America than in any other region of the world, and continues to grow. We sat down with CLACSO's Open Access Advisor Dominique Babini to find out why.

Study finds failure of English language medical journals to comply with international ethical standards.

An argument that Coalition members should favour, both in words and via their spending decisions, community-controlled, no-author-fee journals over commercially owned journals charging APCs, in order to give due consideration to the non-commercial elements of the scholarly publishing ecosystem. 

Researchers have been left without access to new papers as libraries and the major publisher fail to agree on subscription deals.

The Center for Open Science (COS) has been selected to participate in DARPA’s new program Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE).

A high-ranking EU civil servant leading the administrative wing of the European Research Council (ERC) announced his early retirement to staff on Monday, citing policy disputes.

A project to assess the reproducibility of findings in biomedical science by researchers based in Brazil has been published.

Why some scientists choose to forgo promising careers abroad to return to their countries of birth.

Two years into the Trump administration the damage done to science is significant but it would have been far worse without thousands of scientists and their allies calling out attacks on science and detailing the consequences of these attacks for public health and safety.

Everyone appears to be behind open access, but scratch the surface and you'll find that it's something of a touchy subject in academia, says Rachael Pells.

The recently published guidance for the implementation of Plan S offers welcome new details on how full and immediate Open Access to research publications would be achieved under this new initiative.

Over the past year, we've fundamentally changed how we produce graphics.

Making science engaging is vital work, but fraught with challenges. How do you stay relevant in your local community? How do you ensure activities are designed in a way that places the needs and preferences of multiple target audiences at their centre? How do you find new collaborators and effectively expand your network? If you work for a science engagement organisation and need some support or just a little direction, this quick start guide to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) will help.

Predatory conferences (conferences promoted to fraudulently make money from attendance fees) are becoming an increasingly common part of academic life. This post presents the Think. Check. Attend. initiative, which provides academics with an easy to use checklist to ascertain if a conference is legitimate or predatory.

The ecidence movmeent must respond to the ‘politics of distrust’. We cannot carry on regardless. 

Facebook's research app shows big tech can't be trusted to conduct research on its users. To get real answers about how tech impacts us, social media firms need to give their data to external scientists.