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The quiet withdrawal of a 2021 cancer study by Dr. Sam Yoon highlights scientific publishers’ lack of transparency around data problems.

Scientists are raising questions about the ethics of studies backed by Chinese surveillance agencies. Prestigious journals are taking action.

The New York Times and Lexis/Nexis are among the companies that are compensating writers for the digital use of their printed articles.

Technology that allows the police to analyze and share data helps prevent crime. But those sophisticated tools may put civil liberties in danger, too.

David Ruth of the Elsevier Foundation writes about the need to retain our female STEM work force.

Once a must-read, Variety has been declining as the type of news it provides proliferates on the Web, for free. In addition, studios, also battling financial obstacles, have cut down on trade ads.

Advocates and opponents of “open access” for government-financed scientific research are girding for a long battle before Congress, which has little enthusiasm for either extreme.

Also, the academic boycott of the publisher Elsevier grows and how a model vaulted herself onto the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

More than 5,700 researchers are denouncing the pricing policies of the journal publisher Elsevier in a growing furor over open access to the fruits of scientific research.

Many scientists want to open up an age-old system of submitting private research to commercial journals that they say is hidebound, expensive and elitist.