The journal Ethology is the first to adopt the guidelines, aimed at clarifying experimental design and the potential biases within.

While some academics have called for compensation for assessing other scientists’ work, publishers haven’t warmed to the idea.

The agreement will enable authors at eligible German institutes to publish an estimated 400 open-access papers each year in Springer Nature journals from the Nature line of titles.

The open access publication will use AI to identify the most pressing manuscripts in need of peer review.

The scholarly publisher has announced several new licensing agreements in both Europe and the US—but some major academic groups are still without contracts and access to journals.

Half of early-career researchers say they’d participated in the peer review process with their mentors without getting credit.

Its articles will include negative results, reproducibility studies, and peer reviewers’ names.

The university and the publisher have been trying to forge a new licensing agreement for the last year.

Scientists are working to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of sharing.