Empowering the Next Generation to Advance Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.

Starting this year, I will stop traveling to any speaking engagements on open science (or, more generally, infrastructure reform), as long as these events do not entail a clear goal for action.

Author survey shows that publication speed and the ability to share a variety of research outputs are the primary reasons why authors publish on the Wellcome Open Research publishing platform.

Figshare in New Partnership with ORCID to showcase its resources, documentation, staff contributions, and other publicly available materials.

In recent years, librarians have become very concerned about so-called predatory practices associated with some open access publishers. These practices, while concerning, are no where near as harmful to the academic mission as are the practices at Elsevier. We are like that metaphorical frog being slowly boiled.

Reflections on Data Sharing at PLOS ONE

Implications for researchers preprinting their work in terms of precedence, visibility and citation impact, and manuscript editing. Researchers that preprint their work have a citation boost ranging from 83% to 269%.

The report from SpotOn, 'What might peer review look like in 2030?' has now been published. This blog contains a section on the history of peer review from Frank Norman. Read the full report from SpotOn 2016 here.

And why is it important?

Want to get involved with an Open project but don’t know where to start? Check out the list of awesome projects.

NIH puts forward a new approach to make sure that it is exercising optimum stewardship of the funds.

Remember the Kardashian index? That was Neil Hall's 2014 tongue-in-cheek(ish) dig at science Twitter and "Science Kardashians" - scientists with a high Twitter-follower-to-citation ratio.

An open introductory course into the practices of Open Science explains how to make the most of the existing outputs of open research.

Contributing to science is no easy endeavor.

You've accepted an invitation to review a research article. Here's some step by step guidance for how to do it right.

From Turkey to Thailand, some countries punch above their weight when it comes to university access and research. And where education takes root, economic growth soon follows, says Chris Parr of Times Higher Education.

Preprints are receiving welcome attention these days for being an integral part of research communication. We announce that starting this week researchers will be able to directly submit their manuscripts to PeerJ for peer review from the popular preprint server bioRxiv.

Funding shortfalls at the luxe science magazine have left some contributors waiting months to be paid. They may need to wait a little longer.

New study suggests female professors outperform men in terms of service -- to their possible professional detriment.

Despite migration of scientists, eastern European paper output has increased.

As machine learning surpasses human intelligence, where does that leave us? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about the exciting — and terrifying — future of human-robot collaboration.

Is it unethical for a Publisher to extract content from an academic author and commercially benefit from the sale of this without returning any of the economic gains back to the provider of that content or his/her employer?

Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.

A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills.

A novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.

Two hiring seasons and 112 applications.

SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving.

Advances in science and public health policy have saved over 107 million lives in 25 years.

The unconference about tools and rules in collaborative research.

Open Knowledge Maps is a visualization tool for researchers that allows them to view groupings of manuscripts that share common words when searching for a new research topic