Encourage girls to explore scientific career paths.

The OpenTrialsFDA team was selected as a finalist for the Open Science Prize.

Advancements in the research integrity project launched in 2011.

American Chemical Society announces intention to establish “ChemRxiv” preprint server to promote early research sharing

Authorea, a new collaborative tool, could revolutionize scientific authorship

A new study from the University of California system confirms much of what we already knew about open access, particularly the increased financial burden it places on productive universities.

Citation indexes need to provide standardized citation histograms for editors and publishers. Without them, it is unlikely that they will be widely adopted. At worse, it will encourage the producti…

The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. Updated monthly, the Nature Index presents research outputs by institution and country. Use the Nature Index to interrogate publication patterns and to benchmark research performance.

Stephanie Wykstra Ivan Oransky Stuart Buck Brian Nosek Julia Galef (Moderator) How can we produce research findings that are both useful and robust?

By one estimate, 11 biotech drugs made from the ovary cells of Chinese hamsters generated an incredible $57 billion in sales in 2013 alone.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is putting $35 million towards a pair of software institutes that will build the tools necessary for 21st-century research.

We bring together scientists, engineers, programmers, business analysts, and journalists to disseminate best-practices in data visualization and accelerate the bleeding edge technology.

Schedule of the 3rd Altmetrics Conferece, September 28-29, 2016

The Bratislava Declaration of Young Researchers calls on member states and the European Commission to recognize the special role that young researchers play for science, development, innovation and economic growth in Europe.

A new “papers service” for social science content was recently launched and is capitalizing on concerns over the sale of a long time preprint server by a commercial publisher.

The European Academies, including the Royal Society, have published a joint statement.

A mission-based, independent publisher standing for fairness and return approximately 25% of revenue to the research community.

Europe's voyage towards an open global research area

Technologies based on the electronic analysis of large amounts of works are still in their infancy, and the possibilities they might open up in the future are largely unpredictable.

A practical Responsible Research and Innovation tools database

Lab Carpentry provides training resources and example documents for lab management to busy scientists.

Johns Hopkins University Press' Project MUSE online platform will host scholarly monographs and materials in humanities and social sciences.

The $250,000 MIT Media Lab Disobedience award: to a person or group engaged in disobedience for the benefit of society.

Suggestions of how to get started, in seeking to adopt a reproducible workflow for one's computational research.

In talking with some folks about mental health issues in academia, one thing that comes up is the idea that maybe people are better scientists because of those issues. 

How do you edit Barack Obama? The Chronicle spoke to the editor in chief of a journal that published the president’s article on the future of health-care reform on Monday.

Obama Just Did Something No President Has Ever Done: Call him scholar-in-chief

Which organizations and projects are potentially impacted, and how are they connected?

Many of the comments in the Apollo Guidance Computer code go beyond boring explanations of the software itself. They’re full of light-hearted jokes and messages, and very 1960s references.

Resources for the Educational Modules of Professional School Students