Free movement and ECJ jurisdiction seen as potential stumbling blocks at Russell Group's meeting with MEPs

Fresh concerns over reliability of papers published in journals as suspicious statistical patterns prompt investigations into some of the identified trials

New project, partly designed by a University of Cambridge researcher, aims to improve transparency in science by sharing ‘how the sausage is made’. 

White House wants to reduce indirect payments from 28% to 10%.

Oxford’s decision on compulsory retirement raises pressing questions about fairness – and what is best for academia as a whole.

President Donald Trump's administration has brought a long-simmering debate over how the U.S. government supports university research back to a boil.

The open access contracts between the Dutch universities and publishers Elsevier and Springer have to be publicly disclosed. That is the verdict of the committee charged with considering the appeal of the publishers against a freedom of information request.

Publons wants scientists to be rewarded for assessing others’ work.

A new book by actor Alan Alda is all about communication — and miscommunication — between doctors, scientists and civilians.

Striking a Balance: Embracing Change While Preserving Tradition in Scholarly Communications

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Nature will publish more details on experiments described in life-sciences papers.

Thousands of open access papers have mistakenly asked readers to pay access fees, but publishers are correcting the errors.

Race-blind reviews very difficult and may not help, researchers say