An analysis to the NYT article entitled "A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors"

Sci-Hub has gained fame and notoriety for enabling free access to over 45 million paywalled articles and book chapters, purportedly collected through use of institutional log-in credentials.

We interviewed Mark Hahnel, founder of figshare to discuss Collections, a new, free resource developed by the figshare team, and how researchers can use this.

PrePubMed indexes preprints from arXiv q-bio, PeerJ Preprints, Figshare, bioRxiv, and F1000Research.

Duke University biologist Sheila Patek has faced criticism from lawmakers over her research into mantis shrimp and trap-jaw ants, with some calling her government-funded studies a waste of taxpayer money. But according to Patek, not only do her findings have important practical applications, but scientific inquiry is most fruitful when knowledge is sought for its own sake, not to justify budgets.

Climate Feedback, a scientist-led effort to “peer review” the world’s climate journalism, is closing in on its $30,000 crowdfunding target.

How many people are actually using Sci-Hub to download publications while they are in universities?

Podcast discussions with the innovators, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science.

The rate of foreign scientists and students has been for a long time identified as a key factor for innovation and economic competitiveness.

A look at Horizon 2020 in terms of monetary redistribution between Member States.

A visual interface to the world's scientific knowledge

JournalReviewer is an independent site that aggregates information users provide about their experience with academic journals' review processes.

The fight over the Crispr patents.

The number of researchers doubles every ten to fifteen years. In his manuscript, Gottfried Schatz highlights the problems which growth creates for science. He explains the difference between knowledge and science and the reason why less knowledge and more science should be taught in our kindergartens, schools and universities.

High level European policy meeting on funding research data to support open innovation, 6 April 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Many in the scientific community praise preprints as a means of overcoming the high costs and lengthy peer review process of elite journals, which some argue thwart progress.