Some researchers have decided to provide their products without financial compensation or expectations of authorship on resulting papers, prompting a flurry of new work.

The Georgetown University biologist studies how climate change contributes to the emergence of new zoonotic threats.

A large coalition of colleges and universities aims to change hiring, promotion, and tenure practices to reward collaboration.

Zhangfeng Hu will be unable to submit manuscripts for three years after having violated the journal’s policy about making study materials available to other scientists.

Scientists at the Allen Institute for Cell Science have developed an open-source stem cell line with fluorescent tags for cardiac cells.

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.

An attempt to regrow the infamous GFAJ-1 bacteria, reported to incorporate arsenic into its DNA backbone, has failed.