Researchers are getting better at communicating science in a rigorous and reproducible way, according to a text-mining analysis of around 1.6 million papers....

Trawling through the websites of academic journals to decipher their publication policies can be a laborious task. A new database aims to simplify the proces...

Terms like cosmologist, string theorist, or particle physicist rarely capture the true scope of a scientist’s work. A new website plans to provide a more com...

Recently the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited research proposals on developing automated tools that assign confidenc...

Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational research. The full articl...

Physicists can get wordy when describing their own work, but apparently they get straight to the point when providing feedback to others. According to a rece...

A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of academia’s thorniest problems...

A new online tool unveiled 19 January measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that cite them. The full s...

This year has been an interesting one in the world of scholarly publishing. It has seen lawsuits against websites illegally or illicitly hosting paywalled sc...

Blockchain, the technology behind the popular digital currency bitcoin, has the potential to transform research and the science publishing landscape. That’s ...

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 ...

Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute and a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the most influential bi...

A major scientific publishing group is taking aim at a social networking site for allowing researchers to illegally post copies of their journal papers. The ...

Almost half of the scholarly papers that people attempt to access online are now freely and legally available, according to a huge study that tracked 100,000...

A web application inspired by the dating app Tinder lets you make snap judgments about preprints—papers published online before peer review—simply by swiping...

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...

A volunteer-run database called StudySwap, which launched in beta last month, is starting to gain momentum. Initially, the platform aimed only to facilitate ...

An online widget that trawls the Internet searching for free-to-read versions of paywalled papers has been installed more than 10,000 times since its prerele...

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...

Coding is often treated as second-class activity in scientific research but a new tool launched by the Vancouver-based research software firm Impactstory — D...