Harriet Swain talks to academics who are on unpredictable hours and money, often with no sickness pay.

Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of "outsiders" ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail.

Scientific research can be a daunting career choice for women of colour, according to a recent survey which found they face a "barrage of brief, everyday racial slights" at work.

In this special issue, the original conception of the FAIR data principles and what they are intended to cover is explained in detail.

For 17 months, the Bibsam Consortium did not have an agreement with the world's largest scholarly publisher, Elsevier. There is now a summary of the consequences for the consortium, the concerned organizations and their researchers.

Farmers could increase their revenues by increasing biodiversity on their land according to interdisciplinary research in Switzerland and Germany.

Do you know what is meant by the term 'transformative agreement' or how 'Read and Publish' deals are structured? Today we explain the concepts behind these increasingly important approaches.

Finland has already achieved considerable milestones in fostering an open science culture on a national level. A recently published evaluation highlights best practices in Finland, barriers and ideas to remove them.

Resources compiled by swissuniversities to address questions that UK researchers and students on mobility programmes within Swiss higher education institutions will be confronted with after the Brexit.

Read this complete guide to learn everything you need to know about the importance of academic research.

Nature asked readers what it should focus on in the next decade. Here is what the respondents said.

Berghahn Books will take the step of publishing thirteen core anthropology journals as open access starting with their 2020 volumes under the subscribe-to-open model (S2O). 

The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base is a collaborative initiative to curate and share knowledge about the what, why, and how of open scholarship.

Campaigners have argued for open access to scientific research since the dawn of the internet - so why is it taking so long?

Childhood obesity is a major public health problem, and has been for some time - but something is missing with many study methods.

"A Frankenstein material" is teeming with - and ultimately made by - photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce.

Here we present an anonymized version of the dataset that we collected in the quantitative phase of Wellcome's research on research culture. Additionally, we present a document detailing how the data was transformed to protect anonymity. We also present a flowchart that indicates how participants were guided to answer questions in the survey.

We're calling on librarians around the world to help make Wikipedia stronger than ever, in a world that needs reliable information more t…

Big data are difficult to handle. These tips and tricks can smooth the way.

Arnold's move garnered praise on Twitter and showed how scientific research needs to change.

Study suggests that 'predatory' spam targeted specifically at scholars costs universities $1.1 billion annually.

Predatory publishers' papers - long feared to contaminate the literature - may have little research impact.

As I do every year, I picked my ten favorite visualization projects. Here they are in no particular order.

The structural transition wrought by the internet continues to transform the journal-centric model of scholarly publishing into a researcher-centric model of scholarly communication. Success requires engagement with researcher identity, which is a struggle even for most of the largest publishing.

Draft guidance for Wellcome-funded organisations on how to implement the core principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

Peer review can increase the chances of future collaboration, but it doesn't help much against author conflicts of interest.

The research that caught the public imagination in 2019.

Do men and women differ in how positively they frame their research findings and is the positive framing of research is associated with higher downstream citations?

An opportunity for journals and publishers to take the bold step of changing their business model?