Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change “NEVER tried sharing data like this before,” said the tweet. “Feels... Read more
Open access isn’t as open as you think, especially when there are corporate interests involved Matthew Grosvenor Cambridge computer scientists have established a new gold standard for open r... Read more
THE process by which academics check the work of their colleagues before it goes to print—peer review, in the argot—is nearly as old as scientific publishing itself. But like every human end... Read more
Two big recent scientific results are looking shaky—and it is open peer review on the internet that has been doing the shaking SCIENTISTS make much of the fact that their work is scrutinised... Read more
Medical researchers explore how open access publications could help moderate and reduce the vast waste of global medical research. Subscription-based academic journals make money by through... Read more
IN THE world of academic publishing, it is hard to get more traditional than Nature. The British scholarly weekly has been reporting scientific breakthroughs since 1869. It hews to the time-... Read more