NSF unveils plan to make scientific papers free
Scientific journal articles will become freely available, thanks to new policies at major U.S. science agencies.
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ERC activities and achievements in 2014
The main goal of the European Research Council (ERC) is to encourage high quality research in Europe through competitive funding
Wiley-Publons pilot program enhances peer-reviewer recognition
Wiley is piloting a partnership with Publons to give you official recognition for your peer review work. This partnership means you can opt-in to have your reviews for participating Wiley journals automatically added to your reviewer profile on Publons.
Data.gov: Open with apps
Data.gov now enables the public to open data directly with apps like Plotly and CartoDB for robust visualization and analysis. New tools are making it easier to visualize and analyze data at the click of a button.
23andMe expands into the drug discovery business
Personal genetics firm 23andMe has revealed it is to launch a new drug discovery and development division.
The Hague Declaration
The Hague Declaration aims to foster agreement about how to best enable access to facts, data and ideas for knowledge discovery in the Digital Age. Following a period of public comment, our global experts are now preparing the final version of the text.
Ukraine joins Horizon 2020 to work with EU in science and research
Ukraine will now be able to fully participate in Horizon 2020 on equal terms with EU Member States and other associated countries.
ThinkLab
ThinkLab
ThinkLab is a platform that aims to facilitate and reward a 'massively collaborative', open, online model of research.
World Reputation Rankings 2015
Times Higher Education's definitive list of the top 100 most powerful world university brands.
In the beginning
This month marks the 350th anniversary of arguably the first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.
We can make science funding go further by better sharing equipment
We can make science funding go further by better sharing equipment
A new report suggests more sharing of research equipment may be a better way of getting more bang out of the science funding buck than clawing back ‘efficiency savings’ out of grant funding.
Crowdsourcing decision-making lands you in trouble
Crowdsourcing decision-making lands you in trouble
Giving equal weight to everybody’s opinion might be the worse thing you could do.
Will double-blind reviewing bring quality into focus?
Nature is offering anonymity for both reviewer and reviewed, but questions remain about value and effectiveness of the approach.
Mediators propose CERN-like organization for Human Brain Project
The HBP should be remade into an international organization modeled on CERN or the EMBL in Heidelberg, says a panel formed to unite the neuroscience community.
Will they stay or will they go?
International graduate students and their decisions to stay or leave the U.S. upon graduation.
Attention decay in science
The exponential growth in the number of scientific papers makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of all the publications relevant to their work. Consequently, the attention that can be devoted to individual papers, measured by their citation counts, is bound to decay rapidly.
Three Case Studies
This paper presents three case studies describing the use of altmetrics across three research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK and USA.
Pour une meilleure visibilité de la recherche française
Livre blanc sur la visibilité de la recherche française : enquête et recommandations.
Women in science
This data tool illustrates the extent to which the scientific community is losing a talented workforce.
On the importance of being negative
Negative findings matter too and new OA publications are helping researchers to give a fuller account of themselves.
Mistrust and meddling unsettles US science agency
Republicans in the US Congress have put the NSF under the microscope, questioning its decisions on individual grants and the purpose of entire fields of study.
An astonishingly small number of elite graduate schools produce the academics who get jobs
An astonishingly small number of elite graduate schools produce the academics who get jobs
An astonishingly small number of elite universities produce an overwhelming number of professors.
Psychology retractions have quadrupled since 1989
Psychology has been home to some of the most infamous cases of fraud in recent years, and while it's just a few bad apples who are spoiling the bunch, the field itself has seen an overall increase in retractions.
Human Brain Project votes for leadership change
Europe's ambitious but contentious €1-billion HBP has announced changes to its organization in a response to criticism of its management and scientific trajectory by many high-ranking neuroscientists.
Science research facilities prepare for shutdown
Facilities prepare for shutdown as government refuses to secure funding. Up to 1,700 jobs at 27 facilities at risk from 30 June, with $150m in vital funding tied to the Coalition’s higher-education changes.
Split on fellowship scheme 'unacceptable'
The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014
Momentum for European innovation and competitiveness
Carlos Moedas' speech, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, in Berlin last week in favor of open science, disruptive innovation and digital technologies.
How to write them more humane
How to write them more humane
Writing rejection letters is never easy. Below we outline some tips for writing a more humane rejection letter.
Researcher perspectives on publication and peer review of data
A survey of ~ 250 researchers across the sciences and social sciences asks what expectations “data publication” raises and what features would be useful to evaluate the trustworthiness, evaluate the impact, and enhance the prestige of a data publication.
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