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SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazine Nature, has brought forward a listing which may value it at more than 7 billion euros ($8.6 billion) including debt, to reduce the risk from volatile stock markets.
There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.
While rates of productivity were broadly similar, citation rates were found to be higher for transdisciplinary students, as were indicators of collaboration such as co-authorship.
Kathryn Clancy has spent years studying how sexual harassment pervades science. This week, she’s taking those findings to Congress.
Researchers at well-resourced, highly ranked universities are more likely to publish in open-access journals.
Automating the training of machine-learning systems could make AI much more accessible.
Everyone who is interested in Open Science is invited to comment the first draft of an online handbook for Open Science trainers. The deadline for comments is 4 March 2018.
Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data into headline-friendly studies to “go virally big time.”
Some scientists want to change the old-fashioned way scientific advancements are evaluated and communicated. But they have to overcome the power structure of the traditional journal vetting process.
The case for decentralized, trusted platforms for the dissemination of scientific information and attribution.
Publishers would need to join forces to apply image-checking software across the literature.
MSU researcher Richard Lenski's Long-Term Evolution Experiment celebrates 30 years.
Despite numerous push-backs and disregard from male colleagues, these women persevered to make some of the greatest breakthroughs in scientific history, paving the way for millions of young women and girls to enter what was traditionally a male-dominated industry.
Dueling neural networks. Artificial embryos. AI in the cloud. Welcome to our annual list of the 10 technology advances we think will shape the way we work and live now and for years to come.
Government departments must foster a culture supporting free speech, advocates say.
Organizations launching OA journals have many choices to make. What are their technology options?
OA continues to grow. But when will it be...done? When will everything be published as Open Access?
Results show marked improvement compared with 2013 version of the survey, but union says ‘culture shift’ is taking time.
Researchers hold out little hope that the next government will improve their underfunded research system.
Thirty years ago, MSU researcher Richard Lenski added his now-famous bacteria to 12 inaugural flasks, a process he and his team of lab technicians and students have been repeating daily ever since.
The European Commission (EC) is currently working on an implementation plan and a roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which should then be adopted on 28 May. EOSC should offer 1.7 million European researchers and 70 million professionals in science and technology a virtual environment with open seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines.
Blockchain offers a route to a true scholarly commons.
