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The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

Academic publishing is shaped by a system of inequalities which significantly impact where and how researchers publish their work. This roundtable discussion will bring together academics, publishers ...

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The need to reform research assessment and scientific publishing practices is widely recognized. However, Ludo Waltman argues that the assessment and publishing reform movements will be successful onl...

How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the

Yesterday, academic social media went into overdrive as many intellectuals discovered LibGen (“Library Genesis”) for the first time, thanks to an article and tool in The Atlantic.

The administration wants Columbia University to make sweeping changes to its discipline and admissions processes. Experts say the demands are overreaching.

Some scientists say the for-profit industry’s fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work.

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How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology

Can Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reform America’s primary medical research agency?

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.

Repositories for academic papers often do not reflect retractions and corrections to published papers, can this be resolved?