Some doubt that the publishing giant will see any money from the pirate site.

Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.

Biologist Yoshinori Watanabe publishes extensive response

Why some universities are requiring staff to step down.

Lengthy publication delays, theft of rivals’ research, allegations of shoddy reviewing, and even the faking of reviews are raising new questions about a decades-old scientific tradition

Machine learning meets the political machine.

Dance your Ph.D. for prizes and nerd fame -- entries due September 29

Now that the major players have agreed to the giant European Open Science Cloud, it’s time to get the project moving.

Funding agencies announce harsh penalties and stronger policing efforts.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given notice to dozens of scientists that they will not be renewed in their roles in advising the agency.

Last year, the new Microsoft Academic service was launched. Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle look at how it compares with more established competitors such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.

The party of France’s recently elected president won an absolute majority in its first general elections, with an agenda that included strong support for research.

Carlos Moedas suggested a "decision" to create the platform had already been made.

The European Commission is looking to create its own open-access publishing platform for papers that emerge from its €80bn Horizon 2020 programme.

If Asian universities are going to break into the world’s top 10, at least according to the new QS World University Rankings 2018, the most likely candidate is Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

World-leading research institutes have agreed to join forces with funding agencies and policymakers to create the European Open Science Cloud, the largest shared data repository in history.

Flood of online manuscripts generates confusion about terms for distribution and reuse.

Asking the scientific system to fix itself from the bottom up could place an unacceptable burden on junior scientists.

Jeffrey Beall says he faced 'intense pressure' from the University of Colorado Denver and feared losing his job

MEPs have sung the praises of Horizon 2020 in a debate about its mid-term evaluation, and unanimously called for a bigger budget for its successor programme, Framework 9.

Online platform aims to make peer review faster, unbiased and less of a burden on researchers

There are many obstacles to bringing the power of 21st-century technology to the NHS. But that shouldn't stop us trying.

Orpington MP keeps role in Theresa May's post-election reshuffle

Bastian Greshake has analysed the full Sci-Hub corpus and found that articles are being downloaded from all over the world, more recently published papers are among the most requested, and there is a marked overrepresentation of requested articles from journals publishing on chemistry.

Why have so few been retired to sanctuaries?

Google more than doubled investments its pharma investments in each of the last two years.

Horizon 2020 would need four times its budget to fund all of the high-quality proposals it receives, the interim evaluation of the programme has found.

Preprints acceptable for citation in research grant and fellowship applications.

The challenges facing researchers in Japan and some of the structural weaknesses holding science back.

What results-free review might mean for authors, reviewers, editors and readers.