This report provides an assessment of whether alternative finance has the potential to help Europe address the problem of access to finance for innovative companies and bridge the gap in terms of access to risk capital, and if EU action is needed to support development of the sector.

Once again, the FWF is making the publication costs spent in 2016 (esp. for Open Access) publically available.

Paper providing a vision transcending the current publishing paradigm.

On the steady fall in the number of younger US basic scientists.

How can we make the most of open practices in research, education and skills?

Dutch agenda presenting 140 overarching scientific questions as a result of a unique bottom-up initiative, driven by the general public and a vast number of organisations in the Netherlands.

Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.

Introducing Wide-Open, a system that identifies large number of overdue datasets.

Study underway tests whether black and women applicants for NIH grants face discrimination.

Peer review is the gold standard for scientific communication, but its ability to guarantee the quality of published research remains difficult to verify.

Diversity stats across the Royal Society’s activities.

Peter Suber and the Open Access Movement

If we want science to serve society and the planet, then we all must take responsibility for institutional innovation in five key areas.

A SPARC analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies across Europe.

The time that you’re absolutely sick of saying it is about the time that your target audience has heard it for the first time.

Libraries can survive these times of technological upheaval, but they’re going to have to change–and fast.

How several free software tools have fundamentally upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire workflow more transparent and streamlined.

Innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works 

The Interdisciplinary Research Collection highlights 11 articles that exemplify the diversity of interdisciplinary research published in PLOS ONE.

Science is said to be suffering a reproducibility crisis caused by many biases. How common are these problems, across the wide diversity of research fields? We probed for multiple bias-related patterns in a large random sample of meta-analyses taken from all disciplines.

Supporting the development of new models for open research data in the digital age.

Is it reasonable to employ the ResearchGate Score as evidence of scholarly reputation?

Recommendations on best practice

Research institutions should have regular open conversations on authorship criteria and ethics and that funding agencies adopt ORCID and accept CRediT.

Choices researchers can make to stop exploiting themselves and discriminating against others.

An intellectual free-for-all doesn’t lead to the common ground on which research can build.

Scientists need funding to do their work. But a new study finds turning to industry partners taints perceptions of university research, and including other kinds of partners doesn't really help.

With exponential increases that reached 402% over a 20-year span, the spiralling cost of these large bundles rapidly put pressure on available budgets for books and journals from smaller learned societies.

We formulate ten simple rules for considering using preprints as a scientific communication mechanism.

The results of a cross-disciplinary survey show that the majority of respondents are in favour of Open Peer Review becoming mainstream scholarly practice, as they also are for other areas of Open Science, like Open Access and Open Data.