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We ran data on the scientific publications of 37 laureates of the Nobel prizes in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry. The results showed that those laureates have produced knowledge that has been taken up in innovation more widely than the work of the average US or world scientist.
German universities demand open access and fair pricing from academic publishing house Elsevier.
They may be too humble to call themselves heroes, but there's no better way to describe them according to Bill Gates.
News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research.
A glossary of open research terms to inform people about the culture of ‘open scholarship’.
Information for researchers who are interested in adopting an Electronic Lab Notebook system for documenting research and managing data.
Based on Crossref Data (2014-2017) - 42,339 Journals - 12 Million Articles - 36 Million Citations.
The pre-print database for scientists to test the peer-review waters was set up in 1991 as a relatively simple electronic bulletin board on a single computer. Twenty-six years later, the site arXiv.org has surpassed a full billion downloads of papers and receives more than 10 million submissions each month.
Ultimately, the power to enforce change resides in the hands of scientists.
There is no shortage of problems facing humankind. What role science has in tackling them has long been debated.
There have been two distinct responses to the replication crisis – by instituting measures like registered reports and by making data openly available. But another group continues to remain in denial.
Towards a fully-fledged policy proposal, including issues of cost and fairness.
A 30 page paper panning the Commission’s copyright plans on press publishers written by JRC never saw the light of the day.
Counting the number of women and men is considered to be rather unproblematic. But how do you measure diversity?
Jim Kozubek on the potential problems of profiteering in biotech.
An overview of open data for data publishers including information on database rights, best practices and added data to Wikidata.
"Why does this story sound so darned familiar?"
Melbourne researchers warn government: don't publish data down to the individual, ever.
Science funding in Brazil appears frozen at 2017 amounts - its lowest level in 10 years, despite promises of a 40% increase.
Leaked emails reveal that the foundation is actively making offers of grants to officials at the WHO as well as people in India and abroad without explicitly revealing its single source of funding – Philip Morris International.
Roxane Feller, AnimalhealthEurope Secretary-General provides a fascinating insight into the global challenge of antibiotic resistance.
Some experts say the US decision to repeal net neutrality rules could open the floodgates to a multi-speed internet in Europe.
Lack of international representation on scientific journals' editorial boards has persisted since 1985.
