As the coronavirus pandemic disrupts researchers’ working lives, the academic journals that publish their work are adjusting too.

Over the past decade, biologists have increasingly been posting their research results on preprint servers, ahead of the results’ publication in traditional scientific journals.

Envisioned as bioRxiv’s clinical cousin, the new preprint server medRxiv hosts unpublished manuscripts describing original medical research.

Data analysis can improve the vetting of scientific papers, but first publishers must agree to make the information public.

Libraries and funding agencies are finally flexing their muscles against journal paywalls. Authors should follow suit.

The American Statistical Association is asking researchers to revamp how they use common statistical methods.

Ben Barres agonized over whether to come out as male or commit suicide. In a posthumous memoir, he makes clear that coming out was the right choice.