Dryad and DANS have entered into a new partnership. These free research databases announced a collaboration to ensure the preservation of a rich research data repository. Dryad makes the data underlying published research available online.…

What exactly is open access (OA) and what does it mean to publishers and researchers? There have been many articles about OA and its benefits, but briefly, open access simply means that research is published in a forum that is accessible…

Openly available science is becoming increasingly lauded. As publication fees for open access journals and subscription cost skyrocket, self-archiving has become a trend and for good reason—journal publication costs are soaring alongside…

Deciding where to publish your research is already tough enough. Even worse, some journals out there simply seek to make money off researchers by offering to publish their manuscripts with minimal scrutiny. These predatory journals often…

ScienceFair is a new program built on the idea that access to the scholarly literature should be independent of the influence of large publishers. In some cases, the platforms that researchers use to access and read scientific literature…