Online badges don’t motivate researchers to share their data when submitting to a medical journal, the first ever randomised controlled trial on the practice...

The job of a peer reviewer is thankless. Collectively, academics spend around 70 million hours every year evaluating each other’s manuscripts on the behalf o...

Over two thirds of researchers have released the results of at least one study they authored before the findings were formally published. That is according t...

A collection of web-browser plug-ins that trawl the web to find scholarly papers is making the scholarly literature more discoverable. The whole article was ...

Forgotten to free your data? A tool is searching out instances of locked online research data sets that are supposed to be public — and it has already flagge...

Consider this: A scientist publishes a study citing other papers. Those cited papers, in turn, cite studies that came before them. But much of that citation ...

A new web-based tool that promises to assist its users in requesting scientific data from authors of research papers launched in beta version on 7th March. T...