Papers based on NIH-funded research would be freely available 6 months after their publication, according to a draft National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy released Friday (September 3) in an ...

From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree ...

The US National Institutes of Health will soon release a plan to cap academic-journal publishing fees. The caps are a response to rising costs for publishing the results of NIH-funded research. Some ...

The NIH has released its proposal for capping open-access publishing fees, after announcing plans to limit these costs last month. The proposal outlines five different strategies for doing so, and ...

In July, the National Institutes of Health released a request for information seeking public input on a proposed policy to limit allowable publication costs — the portion of grant funds researchers ...

Change can come incrementally, like with most scientific discoveries. Or it can arrive all at once in a flurry of press releases. In July, the US National Institutes of Health announced it would ...

Rachael Sirianni is one of the thousands of research scientists whose work has been decimated by the Trump administration’s massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies ...