Is the tide turning on traditional academic publishing?
How could reforms to the existing scholarly publishing model be implemented?
Monitoring open science: what key practices should we measure?
Discover the results of a consensus study in the biomedical research community.
eLife shifts to publishing ‘reviewed preprints’, ending accept/reject decisions
eLife hopes inclusion of open peer review reports and standardised assessments will help improve transparency and accessibility of research.
Meeting report: summary of Day 2 of the 2023 ISMPP European Meeting
Missed the meeting? Read our report to get up to speed!
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022
Missed the event? View the presentations from Science Europe’s open science conference.
Clear and present data: identifying barriers to clinical trial transparency
What’s standing in the way of researchers adopting good practices on clinical trial data sharing and transparency?
Data sharing and reporting still suboptimal in vaccine trials
A recent analysis of randomised controlled vaccine trials suggests there are still improvements to be made.
WHO mandates health-related data sharing
Learn all about the new WHO data sharing policy and their practical guidance on data sharing plans.
The reality of data sharing behaviour: do researchers share their data as promised?
A recent study revealed that many researchers fail to comply with their data sharing statement.
An open letter on open access: call for greater clarity and transparency of open access terms and conditions
Learn about the next step in the Plan S drive for open science – a letter to publishers calling for greater transparency on open access policies and contracts.
Is open research driving inequity in science?
Dr Tony Ross-Hellauer (ON-MERRITT) discusses how the move toward open research may exacerbate inequity and suggests strategies to prevent it.
NIH bid to tackle reproducibility crisis – is data sharing the answer?
Read about the upcoming NIH requirement to include a data management and sharing plan in all grant applications for projects collecting scientific data.
The key to open access success: a publisher’s insight from one million open access articles
Springer Nature’s Chief Publishing Officer provides an insight into the transition to open access publishing following their publication of 1 million open access articles.
Catch up with the OASPA 2021 Conference: recordings available
Find out more about what was covered at this year’s online conference of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA).
Open access publishing seeks to improve equity, but article processing charges may have the opposite effect
A recent study found that authors with certain characteristics are more likely to publish open access, potentially leading to bias.
Should open science focus more on open methods?
We’ve heard of open data, but should we also consider open methods as standard?