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India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has boosted the country's economy by fostering a booming generic drugs industry and devising new approaches to hybrid crops. Now, the network of 38 national laboratories needs to nurture its own finances.
Success rates fall at five out of six councils amid warnings that the process could become ‘more of a lottery’ as reviewers are stretched.
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees.
A NY District Court has granted Elsevier's request for a preliminary injunction against several sites that host academic publications without permission.
RELX share price is up 100 percent during the past five years and is now near its all-time high.
The editorial staff of a research journal have resigned to protest the company’s failure to embrace open access.
Open data fuels economic growth. Many believe in the theory and ask for the proof. A new report by Nesta and the ODI adds to the evidence of the impact of open data.
The international university ranking scene has become increasingly complex, confusing and controversial.
Turning research grants into loans risks stymieing successful industry
Breuning et al. include some tips for avoiding reviewer fatigue:
An analysis of the education of researchers that constitute the main Brazilian research groups, using data on about 6,000 researchers.
Semantic Scholar comes from centre backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
European Commission hopes agreement will restore lost confidence.
University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a [3]Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide.
Graduate students dream of academia but are keeping their career options open, according to a 2015 Nature survey.
A decades-long surge in the numbers of US biomedical postdocs may finally have ended..
There are just 79 scientists per million Africans, compared to 4,500 per million people in the United States.
What benefit does a future scientist derive from knowing something about art and literature?
Some research funders have mandated in recent years that studies they finance be published in open-access journals, but they've given little attention to ensuring those studies include accessible writing.
Biomedical research has faced criticism for being unreliable, but a report from the Academy of Medical Sciences might change all that.
On [22]the incidence and role of negative citations in science.
White paper showing that the vast majority of authors believe that blind peer review helps to minimize discrimination.
An analysis of WoS data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics, as well its internal map of subdisciplines.
Essay triggers lively arguments over how basic science should be funded.
"The internet has changed everything and people are simply no longer willing to pay $30 to read a paper from 1987."
ORCID has announced the launch of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and DataCite.
The Wellcome Trust is to fund more long-term research projects because of fears that the pressure to publish and the need to show research impact will prevent academics from successfully tackling the world's most pressing challenges.
