25/03/2015 Caroline Black

This month sees the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions – the world’s first science journal – which is still published today. Much of our contemporary approach to publishing research began with the launch of that journal, but what does the future hold?

24/03/2015 Jigisha Patel

Openness and access to knowledge are at the foundations of BioMed Central’s ethos. But there is an important area where total transparency needs to be balanced against patient confidentiality.

20/03/2015 Deborah Kahn

At a time of increasing support for open access in Japan, we spoke to Yuko Nagai of the Zoological Society of Japan about the society’s new open access journal and the future of open access in the country.

06/03/2015 Dionicia Gamboa

Dionicia Gamboa is a winner of the 2013 Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World. For International Women’s Day, we asked her to tell us about what inspired her to become a scientist, and her perspective on what life is now like for women in science.

05/03/2015 Bryony Graham

Guest blogger Bryony Graham now has her own PhD student to supervise. She discusses the challenges and rewards of teaching someone all the important skills that you can’t learn from reading scientific articles.

03/03/2015 Kam Arkinstall

Didn’t get a chance to read all of February’s blog posts? Here’s the best of what you missed…

03/03/2015 Maria Kowalczuk

Last Thursday, Digital Science organized their first Spotlight event, held at their offices in central London. The topic: ‘Open data for researchers – the obstacles and the opportunities’ attracted a varied crowd of scientists, journal editors and tech gurus who gathered to discuss what open data means practically for researchers and publishers.