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Many open science initiatives focus on the availability of research datasets, however in recent years there has been a call for an open and transparent approach to sharing research methods too.

Today marks the launch of a new initiative in which the Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience section of Royal Society Open Science guarantees to publish any close replication of any article published in our journal, and from most other major journals too.

The remarkable promises of new cancer drugs often lead to false claims.

To show our commitment to transparency and reproducibility in scientific research, Open Biology has introduced a reporting form that will be made publically available alongside published papers.

Royal Society Open Science has published its first Registered Report, a format of empirical article where a study proposal is reviewed before the research is undertaken.

Professor David Vaux, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, writes on research integrity