Support for open research. Many Nature Portfolio journals encourage practices that improve transparency, including data sharing, code sharing, protocol sharing ( protocols.io) and transparent ...

Michael Eisen doesn't hold back when invited to vent. “It's still ludicrous how much it costs to publish research — let alone what we pay,” he declares. The biggest travesty, he says, is that the ...

The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional subscriptions (paywall), and how to best judge the ...

Recently launched OA journals recognized for quality in latest Journal Citation Reports™ PISCATAWAY, N.J., 27 July 2023 -- IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing ...

Oxford Open Infrastructure and Health and Oxford Open Digital Health will join Oxford University Press’s flagship OA journal series, covering high-quality research on critical issues affecting society ...

There are plenty of myths about open access – are any of them true? Open lock image from www.shutterstock.com Rather than lock up knowledge in costly journals, increasingly universities and ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Beginning in the fall of 2010, Aaron Swartz repeatedly logged on to MIT’s campus network and used an ...