Open science is important, but it is also hard. Unfortunately, 'hard' has often meant that scientific quality checks are both slow and inadequate, falling in an unsatisfactory middle ground between two opposing goals
If you’ve paid a recent visit to Taylor & Francis Online you’ll have noticed a very different look and feel for the published articles you’re reading.
Scopus delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. As the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, Scopus has intuitive tools that allow you to track, analyse and visualise research.
CABI has launched a horticultural science internet resource covering tropical, subtropical and temperate crops and regions
RCNi Learning is a brand new interactive online learning resource designed to help nursing students prepare for clinical practice. It consists of 135 modules (which will grow to 185 next month), covering 43 topics including communication, cancer, acute care, wound care, mental health and many more.
Global Health and CAB Abstracts, both produced by CABI, are two of the world's most definitive bibliographic scientific research databases covering the fields of agriculture, environmental sciences and public health.
NPJ Clean Water, a new open access research journal dedicated to solving the global challenge of ensuring clean water supplies, will be published by Nature Publishing Group in partnership with King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Elsevier has launched the next version of Pathway Studio Web, which it says will enable researchers to more quickly understand the underlying biology of disease
EBSCO Information Services has introduced an information resource for researchers in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries
Elsevier has announced the launch of a new module in PharmaPendium, its database of drug approval documents and extracted data to inform critical drug development decisions
Single sign-on provider OpenAthens announced the winner of its inaugural best publisher user experience (UX) award for 2020 earlier this year
As scholarly publishing communities search for the meaning behind metrics, the need for context is becoming crystal clear, reports Rebecca Pool
In February 160 attendees gathered in London at BMA House for the Fifth Researcher to Reader Conference. Heather Staines reports
Tamir Borensztajn describes attempts to support an open research infrastructure
Mark Carden ponders: does the Covid-19 pandemic mean that the world has changed forever and nothing will be the same again?
Kim Eggleton
Kim Eggleton wonders: how do we solve the problem of diversity in peer review?
Publishing organisations should look to adopt modular infrastructure and modular business models so they can experiment, writes Brian Cody
The pandemic has demonstrated the importance of open access and open science, writes Rossana Morriello
