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A survey of researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital provides insights into the challenges and opportunities involved in adopting an open science policy across an entire patient-oriented academic institution.

Staff from the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the US describe recent improvements to the PubMed search engine and outline plans for the future, including a new experimental site called PubMed Labs.

Standardizing the titles, terms and conditions under which postdocs are employed will benefit the biomedical research workforce.

What can institutions and funding agencies do to address an array of issues facing the biomedical research community in the United States?

Journals are exploring new approaches to peer review in order to reduce bias, increase transparency and respond to author preferences.

Tackling unconscious bias is a major challenge for journals and the rest of the scientific community.

The views of peers are important when applying for a faculty position, but so are research plans and being a good 'fit'.

Funding agencies use many different criteria and peer review strategies to assess grant proposals.

Editors, reviewers and authors share their experiences of consultative peer review at eLife.

Scientific abstracts have become less readable over the past 130 years, in part because recent texts include more general scientific jargon than older texts.