Success rates: surge in applications to 'struggling' research councils
Success rates fall at five out of six councils amid warnings that the process could become ‘more of a lottery’ as reviewers are stretched.
Send us a link
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees.
Court orders shutdown of Libgen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub
A NY District Court has granted Elsevier's request for a preliminary injunction against several sites that host academic publications without permission.
Academic publishing can't remain such a great business
RELX share price is up 100 percent during the past five years and is now near its all-time high.
Elsevier mutiny: cracks are starting to widen in the fortress of academic publishing
Elsevier mutiny: cracks are starting to widen in the fortress of academic publishing
The editorial staff of a research journal have resigned to protest the company’s failure to embrace open access.
The economic impact of open data: what do we already know?
Open data fuels economic growth. Many believe in the theory and ask for the proof. A new report by Nesta and the ODI adds to the evidence of the impact of open data.
Are global rankings losing their credibility?
The international university ranking scene has become increasingly complex, confusing and controversial.
Britain’s R&D funding needs no innovation
Turning research grants into loans risks stymieing successful industry
Reviewer fatigue? Why scholars decline to review their peers' work
Breuning et al. include some tips for avoiding reviewer fatigue:
A spatiotemporal analysis of Brazilian science from the perspective of researchers' career trajectories
A spatiotemporal analysis of Brazilian science from the perspective of researchers' career trajectories
An analysis of the education of researchers that constitute the main Brazilian research groups, using data on about 6,000 researchers.
Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers-for free
"The internet has changed everything and people are simply no longer willing to pay $30 to read a paper from 1987."
ORCID auto-update launch a 'game changer'
ORCID has announced the launch of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and DataCite.
UC policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees
University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a [3]Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide.
2015 Nature graduate-student survey
Graduate students dream of academia but are keeping their career options open, according to a 2015 Nature survey.
Massive pool of US biomedical postdocs starts to shrink
A decades-long surge in the numbers of US biomedical postdocs may finally have ended..
Africa produces 1.1% of global scientific knowledge
There are just 79 scientists per million Africans, compared to 4,500 per million people in the United States.
Why scientists should study art and literature
What benefit does a future scientist derive from knowing something about art and literature?
Why is academic writing so needlessly complex?
Some research funders have mandated in recent years that studies they finance be published in open-access journals, but they've given little attention to ensuring those studies include accessible writing.
Are we finally getting serious about fixing science?
Biomedical research has faced criticism for being unreliable, but a report from the Academy of Medical Sciences might change all that.
Science papers rarely cited in negative ways
On [22]the incidence and role of negative citations in science.
2015 survey: a global view
White paper showing that the vast majority of authors believe that blind peer review helps to minimize discrimination.
A century of physics
An analysis of WoS data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics, as well its internal map of subdisciplines.
Does innovation always come from science?
Essay triggers lively arguments over how basic science should be funded.
The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus
The objective of this research is to describe the journal coverage of those two databases and to assess whether some field, publishing country and language are over or underrepresented.
Fair allocation?
A research review on funding and gender produced by the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, Gothenburg University.
PLOScast
A PLOS podcast dedicated to interviews with innovators and thought leaders on scholarly publishing developments, the future of academia and the changing experiences of scientists.
10 yrs of OA at the Wellcome Trust
A timeline showing the major milestones in 10 years of Open Access at the Wellcome Trust.
×