A group of Florida Museum of Natural History scientists has issued a “call to action” to use big data to tackle longstanding questions about plant diversity and evolution and forecast how pl... Read more
When Universities Sell Patents to Trolls, Publicly Funded Research Is Compromised There’s been a lot of talk lately about the state of publicly funded research. Many, including EFF, have lon... 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
What are authors’ attitudes to open access publishing in 2014? With open access continuing to have a high profile, is all the debate and discussion helping to inform researchers and influenc... 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
A major journal is balking at the plan, preventing over 3,000 high-energy physics papers from becoming open-access and sparking a minor stand-off with CERN January sees the start of what has... Read more
Was this the year open access for science reached critical mass? One hypothesis suggests that a transformative group needs to reach one-third to be prominent and persisting. Rogers’ theory o... Read more
Researchers from The Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR), University of Manchester have made an important step forward in finding a potential treatment for an i... Read more
When it comes to public access, the tree of life has holes. A new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers shows about 70 percent of published genetic sequence comparisons are... Read more
Good news for fans of the scientific method: the largest and most influential university system on the planet will be giving out its research for free. After 6-year-long fight with the for-p... Read more
Open-access scientific publishing is gaining ground AT THE beginning of April, Research Councils UK, a conduit through which the government transmits taxpayers’ money to academic researchers... 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
“The important thing is that scientists themselves take on the challenge of building the central steering mechanism for science: its evaluation system.” In an editorial accompanying an... Read more
Frangioni’s approach is quite different. One of the main forces driving the move to open access is the idea that if the public has already paid for research through taxation or philant... Read more
