Critics say the big new building will ruin the city's historic skyline

Proposed law would ban the practice

Long-awaited plan would exempt computer-aided harvesting from EU copyright law.

As part of its update of EU copyright rules, the European Commission today proposed a copyright exception that would permit researchers to analyse on a large scale scientific data to which they have lawful access.

A look at the literature reveals shortcomings in the way OA and subscription models are being compared and suggests how future studies could build on existing research to provide a more accurate picture

Ruth Hubbard, 92, of Cambridge, who died Sept. 1, first female biology professor to be awarded tenure at Harvard University, and also was an anti-war activist, a cautionary voice about privacy and gene research, and a prominent feminist critic of discrimination women face in sciences.

The 20-page report has an explicit message: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the position of the president’s science adviser should be retained.

But UK students at universities abroad will lose out from the falling pound

'Reproducibility editor' Victoria Stodden explains the growing movement to make code and data available to others

The Council of the EU looks set to ask the European Research Council to consider setting up a new category of grants to help student researchers establish their careers.

The Lasker Awards, among the most respected prizes in medicine, will go to six researchers who made major discoveries in physiology and virology, and to a scientist who has tirelessly promoted science education.

Internal sugar industry documents suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.

Scientific cooperation between the UK and Russia was boosted in August this year when Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to extend the UK-Russia Intergovernmental Agreement on Science and Technology cooperation for another 10 years.

September 2016 marks the first year anniversary of the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. To celebrate, we thought we'd share some statistics about the platform and its growth.

Internal analysis finds women earn 10.5 per cent less than men of similar experience and research productivity

New study looks at what happened when a university made its publications publicly available through an institutional repository

‘SmartFigures Lab’ is a prototype online publishing website with enhanced data presentation capabilities. The site results from the integration of SmartFigures, an open source application of the EMBO SourceData platform, with Wiley’s Content Enrichment Framework and research & development environment.

Papers accepted for publication in Nature and an initial 12 other Nature titles will be required to include information on whether and how others can access the underlying data.