The agreement will include approximately 2,700 journals as well as plans to transition Nature journals to open access for the University of California system.

When submitting manuscripts to Western journals, authors face issues that go beyond language barriers.

A pilot project between the scholarly publisher and the academic networking platform launched last week.

The manuscript had amassed more than 50 comments about problematic figures and data on PubPeer.

Research funding agencies in Europe will require grantees’ papers to be free to read when they are available online.

Nineteen researchers have stepped down after the journal decided not to retract a paper that they say plagiarized the work of a Johns Hopkins biomedical scientist.

The world’s largest publisher yields to censorship policies of the world’s largest country.

New rankings highlight institutions that have produced large numbers of articles cited in others' patents.

Retractions are on the rise. But reams of flawed research papers persist in the scientific literature. Is it time to change the way papers are published?

Nature journals will ask authors to authenticate cell lines used in manuscript submissions starting next month.

An editor of the journal Scientific Reports quits in protest of paid, expedited review.

Authors submitting to Nature journals can soon request double-blind reviews.

January 2015's selection of notable quotes