Roberto Bolli was editor of the American Heart Association’s journal until last week, after anti-gay comments he sent to the Louisville Ballet became public.

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

After negotiating for eight months, the University of California becomes one of the first research institutions in the US to stop paying for access to the publisher’s journals.

For many, it’s not a question of when senior academics should leave their posts, it’s about how to distribute scarce resources such as grants and faculty positions more fairly.

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

The three-year contract, in which all articles will be published as open access in exchange for an annual fee for journal subscriptions, is a triumph for Project DEAL.

The journal’s “portable peer review” seeks to save time for editors and researchers.

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

From disastrous scientific setbacks to the upending of scientific dogma and the end of a 40-year search for a protein