Analyses on the Microsoft Academic Graph to understand the changing nature of science over the course of the last century.

Back in 2008, Jeffrey Hall said "recent applications from our lab have had their lungs ripped out, often accompanied by sneering, personal denunciations."

A browser extension that finds free scholarly full texts, metrics, and provides quick citation and sharing links automatically.

Comparing Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Mendeley, and ResearcherID.

1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.

John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.

Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.

An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data?

Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.

Knowledge Lab project to investigate programming features and data science environments.

Organization and presentation of visual information in the scientific literature.

Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews.

After almost 25 years since Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal“, now, finally, scholars and the public have a range of avenues at their disposal to access nearly every scholarly article.

Why is the one federal agency dedicated to revealing the unknown to humankind so difficult for many journalists to penetrate?

As research and editorial processes become increasingly open, scientists and editors need to be proactive but also alert to risks.

I was reminded today about the wonderful history of Nature in it's claim that it would make all papers reporting a new genome sequence freely and openly available.

The perceived and actual barriers experienced by researchers attempting to do reproducible research.

After almost two decades, these developments give hope that scholarly articles will finally be freed from their paywalls.

They’re a part of every career, and being upfront about them can help put things in perspective.

The strengths and weaknesses of arXiv in an effort to identify what possible improvements can be made based on new technologies not previously available.

Earlier this week, eLife announced a partnership with Coko to build an open source solution for submission, peer review and processing of manuscripts. The limitations of the currently available systems are substantial.

The Open APC initiative releases datasets on fees paid for Open Access journal articles by universities and research institutions under an Open Database License.

Self-citations and academic assessments: Including the s-index as an additional metric thus provides important context to guide decisions based on academic value.

On perversity in academic rewards

The goal is to deliver an open-source submission and peer-review platform

Congratulations to Irene Hames, the winner of Publons' inaugural Sentinel Award - for outstanding advocacy, innovation or contribution to scholarly peer review.

Here's a brief summary of some key takeaways from this year's Peer Review Congress, held every four years. A talk by the Swiss National Science Foundation was especially enjoyed.

Transparency in Review, and other innovations - Research in progress blog

What kind of peer review is developing to evaluate long-form digital scholarship? A view from AAUP press editors.

With science needing to always be reviewed to be sure it is correct, using Post-publication peer review is useful for scientific accuracy.