open access

Thousands of open access papers have mistakenly asked readers to pay access fees, but publishers are correcting the errors. 

Diego Gomez was facing jail time in Colombia for posting someone else’s copyrighted thesis online.

Researchers describe hundreds of induced pluripotent stem cell lines from healthy individuals. 

Consortium pushes for open citation data; Gates Foundation launches open-access publishing platform; Cell Press lifts the veil on papers under consideration; an online widget circumvents some paywalls

Representatives follow the lead of senators in drafting a bill that would encourage federal scientists to share data.

A conversation with outgoing Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Marincola

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.

OpenTrials.net seeks to increase transparency and make clinical research more accessible to the public.

Roger Tsien R.I.P., predatory publishing, and diversity in science

An open-access journal is trialing a peer-review process in which reviewers do not have access to the results or discussion sections of submitted papers.

A new psychology-centric preprint server is slated to launch.

Establishing priority of a new finding is best achieved through a combination of a rapid, scientist-controlled disclosure followed by subsequent validation, through journal-based peer review and other mechanisms.

Researchers prepare to launch an effort to make the scientific literature more dynamic.

European Union member states agree to an ambitious goal to make all scientific papers freely accessible within four years.

Profile of a CRISPR pioneer; SciHub, open access, and for-profit publishing; improving ecological models

Uptick in Guillain-Barré syndrome; Zika data-sharing snags; Brazilian state discontinues larvicide

New PhDs boost economy; Dutch universities strike open-access deal with Elsevier; #scibucketlist

A partnership between Wikipedia and scholarly publishing behemoth Elsevier has open-access advocates up in arms.

Journalists and activists use the Freedom of Information Act to expose academics’ relationships with industry.

An open-access journal that will publish research ideas, methods, workflows, and software has launched.