The United Kingdom government hatches a plan to provide free public access to government-funded research.
The United Kingdom government hatches a plan to provide free public access to government-funded research.
From accounts of deformed animals to scratch-and-sniff technology, Robert Boyle's early contributions to the Royal Society of London were prolific and wide ranging.
The country vows to curb misconduct in scholarly publishing.
Editors at PLoS Medicine suggest that merely disclosing conflicts of interest is insufficient and possibly even counterproductive.
The NIH agrees with the government advisory board’s recommendation to publish both controversial bird flu studies in full.
Editors, concerned about the increasing numbers of retractions, propose solutions.
Much has changed in the last 10 years for postdocs, who are staying in their positions longer than ever before—and coming out with more to show for it.
In the introduction to the book, author Marc J. Kuchner tells the story of how one scientist used tricks of the marketing trade to save the Endangered Species Act from the political axe.
Will traditional scientific journals follow newspapers into oblivion?
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is considering a policy of open-access-only publishing for its faculty.