Despite some difficult negotiations, academic institutions in the Netherlands have been securing subscriptions that combine publishing and reading into one fee.
The publisher will ask its journal editors to adopt widely accepted standards on transparency and openness in scientific communication.
In the initial steps of a campaign to make clinical reports publicly available, the European Medicines Agency has published data on two recently approved drugs.
A new psychology-centric preprint server is slated to launch.
The “Genes for Good” Facebook app and the Open Humans Network plan to recruit large numbers of volunteers for medical studies using social media.
The Journal of Brief Ideas, a platform that publishes 200-word articles, launches in beta.
Jean-Claude Bradley, the chemist known as the father of the Open Notebook Science movement, has passed away.
Psychologists have launched a new organization to encourage openness and improve the reliability of findings in their own field and beyond.
GlaxoSmithKline will share long-sought, raw trial data—but access will be tightly controlled.
Biological resource centers are bigger and better than ever before, storing and distributing shared reagents, plasmids, and more.
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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