Agencies must show that basic research is worth the investment
The European Research Council has begun to evaluate the impact of its grants; others should do the same.
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Introducing Preprints: A Multidisciplinary Open Access Preprint Platform
Preprints is a free (not‐for‐profit) open access service supported by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland.
Antibiotics funding splurge gets mixed reception
Multimillion dollar initiative prioritizes drug development over discovery of new molecules.
Metrics and The Social Contract: Using Numbers, Preserving Humanity
Ever since Eugene Garfield first began to analyse citation patterns in academic literature, bibliometrics and scientometrics have been highly pragmatic disciplines. By that, I mean that technological limitations have restricted measurements and analyses to what is possible, rather than what is ideal or theoretically desirable. In the post-digital era, however, technological limitations are increasingly falling …
Petition: We require any BRexit deal preserves UK access to EU collaborative R&D programs
UK access to EU R&D programmes stimulates £billions of investment and gives the UK access to skills and technologies that it does not have. Ending our access to these programmes will weaken our economy which depends on exploitation of innovative science and technology.
The Interdependence of Scientists in the Era of Team Science
How is the rise in team science and the emergence of the research group as the fundamental unit of organization of science affecting scientists’ opportunities to collaborate?
Students ‘dissatisfied’ with branch campuses in Qatar
Scholar says overseas outposts cannot compete with universities abroad without delivering a ‘superior’ service
Top 10 tips for starting your first academic job
With university staff thinking about the start of the next academic year, Robert MacIntosh and Kevin O'Gorman offer some advice to staff due to arrive on campus this autumn.
Text & Data Mining
Technologies based on the electronic analysis of large amounts of works are still in their infancy, and the possibilities they might open up in the future are largely unpredictable.
Commission to invest €8.5 billion in research and innovation in 2017
Today, the European Commission announced an investment of €8.5 billion to be released during 2017 into research and innovation, following an update to the Work Programme of Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding programme.
Veruscript
A mission-based, independent publisher standing for fairness and return approximately 25% of revenue to the research community.
Making research open and accessible
A figshare case study on Erin McKiernan's Physiological Science research.
European Academies statement: Science Is Global
The European Academies, including the Royal Society, have published a joint statement.
What Is SocArXiv?
A new “papers service” for social science content was recently launched and is capitalizing on concerns over the sale of a long time preprint server by a commercial publisher.
Scientific literature: Information overload
How to manage the research-paper deluge? Blogs, colleagues and social media can all help.
Can we trust peer review? New study highlights some problems
Can we trust peer review? New study highlights some problems
Competitive peer review increases innovation, but it has a dark side.
Science under siege: how Venezuela’s economic crisis is affecting researchers
Chemist Claudio Bifano tells Nature about daily life in a country gripped by hunger, scarcity and violence.
Science advice for Europe
On 23 July, around 4500 scientists and friends of science will assemble in Manchester, UK, for the opening of the EuroScience Open Forum, Europe's largest interdisciplinary research conference.
Lab Carpentry
Lab Carpentry provides training resources and example documents for lab management to busy scientists.
Reward the forgotten foot soldiers of science
The story of CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing has tended to focus on a few key players.
Stop the privatization of health data
Stop the privatization of health data
Tech giants moving into health may widen inequalities and harm research, unless people can access and share their data, warn John T. Wilbanks and Eric J.
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