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Over the past decade, scientists or universities have used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get thousands of competitors' grants proposals. And many of the targeted scientists are upset.
New metric measures how reliable scientific claims turn out to be – but calculating it could be an enormous task.
Why has the UK government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned in the 1980s?
Approval of Novartis cancer drug is “historic,” FDA says
New restrictions hamper access to websites useful for research.
Energy researcher Daniel Kammen faults US president’s positions on climate change and energy and his failure to condemn white supremacists.
Ultimately, a key question is emerging for higher education institutions: to what extent, and under what conditions, does it make sense to outsource core scholarly infrastructure?
This week, six communities launched preprint services to accelerate dissemination of research.
Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.
With help from drug companies, Omics International is making millions as it roils the scientific community with sketchy publications.
Bo Rothstein quits Blavatnik School of Government post after learning that patron is a major financial backer of US president.
It might just reinvent the entire medical publishing process.
Researchers were told to censor descriptions of projects funded by a Department of Energy laboratory.
At a research facility in France 35 countries are working on a project that could transform energy.
Over the last 2 years more than 150 German libraries, universities, and research institutes have formed a united front trying to force academic publishers into a new way of doing business.
New preprint services could bring niche scientific communities into the open.
A historian recounts the National Institutes of Health's 1960s pilot test of exchanging unreviewed manuscripts, and how publishers killed it.
New study casts doubts on whether more information about science can really change someone's mind.
The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles.
If we can get our minds around Premier League statistics, we can handle experimental science, writes physics professor Tom McLeish
Replicating our work took four years and 100,000 worms but brought surprising discoveries, explain Gordon J. Lithgow, Monica Driscoll and Patrick Phillips.
Nature Plants explains how it handled a manuscript coauthored by Patrice Dunoyer, a biologist with multiple retractions to his name.
The Cambridge University Press faced academic outrage after agreeing to remove articles about Tibet, Tiananmen Square and China's Cultural Revolution.
Two years ago this month, news of the replication crisis reached the front page of the New York Times.
