Move over, Alfred... Yuri Milner, a technology billionaire, wants to turn scientists into celebrities.

More than 600 journals across Nature Research, Springer, BioMed Central and Palgrave Macmillan have committed to encouraging good practice in the sharing and archiving and citation of research data by adopting new Springer Nature research data policies.

Today, the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the NAS announced the formation of a 16-person committee to work on the Next Generation of Researchers study. This study was commissioned by the U.S. Congress in the fiscal 2016 omnibus appropriations package that passed in December 2015.

Economic woes wrought by globalization are only part of the cause.

Huda Zoghbi, Stephen Elledge, Jean Bourgain, Joe Polchinski and other researchers in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics share awards from prize founders Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin.

Two features of peer review subvert the goals of science: reviews are kept secret and reviewers are usually anonymous, argues Jeffrey S. Flier.

GRID’s comprehensive database of over 66,000 global research organizations now available under a CC0 license, allowing users to make full use of the database releases with no need for attribution.

The government will accept applications for the job until 27 January 2017. It is not yet clear how large the adviser’s staff will be, or how the post will be funded.

A market place for scientific and scholarly journals which publish articles in open access. Quality scoring of the journals in QOAM is based on academic crowd sourcing; price information includes institutional licensed pricing.

Earlier this year, we announced that six teams had made it through to the final of the Open Science Prize. We’re asking you to help us choose the three most impactful and novel prototypes from among the six finalists.

Vote now for he Open Science Prize, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the US NIH and the HHMI to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit.

iCite allows users ti upload the PubMed IDs of articles of interest, optionally grouping them for comparison. It then displays the number of articles, articles per year, citations per year, and Relative Citation Ratio, a field-normalized metric that shows the citation impact of one or more articles relative to the average NIH-funded paper.

Institutions struggle to respond after court blocks regulations that would have increased wages for junior researchers.

Preprints are one step towards an Open Science future.

India and China are the main winners in our list of the best universities in emerging economies

Consortium backed by US NIH is first major biology programme to mandate online publication of results ahead of peer review.

Are you having trouble staying on top of the ever-growing body of scientific knowledge? Science Careers asked a few scientists to discuss how they keep up with the literature.