Ruthless labor exploitation? Generational betrayal? Understanding the job crisis in academia requires a look at recent history.

Die Arbeitsgruppe Open-Science-Strategie des Open Science Network Austria (OANA) hat Empfehlungen für eine nationale Open Science Strategie in Österreich erarbeitet und lädt ein, das Dokument bis zum 05.04.2020 online zu annotieren bzw. zu kommentieren.

Analysis of 75 countries reveals 'shocking' scale of global women's rights backlash.

The public call for rapid sharing of research data relevant to the COVID-19 outbreak is driving an unprecedented surge in (unrefereed) preprints. To help pinpoint the most important research, Nature launched Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview, an open-source platform for rapid review of preprints related to emerging outbreaks.

COAR and SPARC have published a joint response to the OSTP Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research. Good data management is critical for ensuring validation, transparency of research findings, as well as to maximize impact and value of publicly-funded research through data reuse.

Europe PMC has made changes to make sense of preprint versions. 

Swiss scientists fear a number of political obstacles could block their path into the EU's next big research programme.

After the success of the first two rounds, Women in Technology is organising the third year of WIT Mentoring.

The initiative to ensure that qualified women have a place at the Academy.

The Swiss National Science Foundation is testing a new CV format for researchers applying for project funding in biology and medicine (submission deadline 01 April 2020).

The coronavirus crisis shows how the free sharing of data is crucial in science.

For a variety of reasons, researchers want to figure out who's most at risk of being infected and who's most at risk of developing severe illness.

New OA payment models are needed make open access implementation practical, journal editor says.

This new meeting at the Wellcome Genome Campus will bring together an international audience of researchers motivated to improve the robustness of scientific research.

A researcher from the Wuhan University of China offers a view of how Chinese researchers are reacting and are likely to alter their behavior in response to new policies governing research evaluation.

An example of finding the balance between personal and professional lives during moves overseas and in and out of academia.

Coronavirus concerns have some businesses urging employees to work from home. If you're telecommuting, for public health reasons or otherwise, remember: Boundaries are your friend.

Some students do feel political pressure from their professors, but few change their views.

WHO calls on industry and governments to increase manufacturing by 40 per cent to meet rising global demand.

Adult learning is at a 20-year low because mature students can't study flexibly. This must change

The university analysts at QS have published their 2020 rankings by subject.

The 2020 election is off to a complicated start. Maybe we can draw some comparative political lessons from the animal kingdom.