Japan has become the latest country to open an online preprint repository, in a bid to boost international exposure to the country’s...

Some academic researchers in Russia are quietly working to prevent colleagues who have supported their country’s invasion of Ukraine from...

A group of international respiratory societies has banned researchers associated with tobacco companies from publishing papers in their...

There’s no quick and easy way to fix the problem of ’scientific misinformation’, argues a new report released by the Royal Society. As...

As libraries and research offices evolve with the complex and competitive demands of the research enterprise, tensions over their...

The illegal inclusion of false investigators on grant proposals and research papers should be classified as research misconduct,...

Australia lags behind comparable research-intensive countries in Europe in the development of open-access policies, according to a recent...

Only half of Australia’s 40 universities have a formal policy on open access (OA), and the policies are vague and ineffectual, according...

A pilot study at universities and private and public funding agencies in Europe testing a new toolbox of topics aimed at helping...

British umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable...

Academia in the Netherlands has erupted in disagreement over the move by a Dutch university to stop considering journal impact factors...

Most editors-in-chiefs of scholarly journals have no objection to patients being included as co-authors of research papers when they...

In 2014, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute launched the Center for Journalology with some internal funding, aiming to shed light on...

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) , Switzerland’s largest government research-funding agency, has started using a...

Physicists are cautiously optimistic about a new DARPA-like funding agency the UK is creating. Called the Advanced Research and Invention...

Experts in science and research funding have given a tepid welcome to the budget announced by Rishi Sunak, the UK’s chancellor of the...

The UK government will launch a new grant funding agency in 2022 aimed specifically at funding high-risk science and breakthroughs. The...

The widely used academic database Scopus hosts papers from more than 300 potentially ‘predatory’ journals that have questionable...

Grant reviewers for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) report shorter attention spans and lower engagement during video...

Last month publishing giant Springer Nature announced that in January 2021 many of its Nature-branded journals will start offering...