News

Global South, equity and inclusion

eLife introduces the Global South Committee for Open Science

02 February 2024

Group is aimed at showing how best to promote equitable collaboration and inclusion in scientific publishing

Research news, careers

DORA announces new career assessment tool

30 January 2024

Database illustrates more responsible and informative approaches to academic career assessment

Open access

IOP Publishing joins OA Switchboard

30 January 2024

Partnership aimed at enabling organisations to monitor information relating to OA research outputs

Artificial intelligence

Study to look at ethical risks of AI in research

29 January 2024

Project aims to help protect the privacy of those who participate in research

open science

'First of its kind' initiative to explore reproducibility and replication

25 January 2024

Nature Human Behavior and the Institute for Replication aiming to 'drive forward best practice in open science via partnership'

Libraries

Boston Library Consortium and NISO announce agreement

25 January 2024

Agreement will extend full Library Standards Alliance benefits to BLC’s 25 member libraries

Sustainable Development Goals

Kudos launches major SDG study

24 January 2024

Research aims to help publishers identify and prioritise initiatives to support the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Open access

ResearchGate and BMJ join forces

24 January 2024

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and BMJ, a global leader in healthcare knowledge provision and a pioneer in open access (OA), have announced an agreement to make six BMJ OA journals available on the ResearchGate platform. This collaboration will provide wider reach and visibility to researchers and enhance accessibility to healthcare knowledge.