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A scientific board that helped forge links between European researchers and policymakers will close down on November 1, 2014. It is unknown if the new development commissioner will set up a similar board.
On Friday Charles Munger has donated $65 million to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The gift represents the largest in the school’s history.
China has come to an unsettling conclusion: the system that it uses to invest in science and technology is broken.
Steep budget cuts could push Italian universities and research centers beyond the point of no return, an academic body warned yesterday.
Accounting and working with budget numbers isn't always that boring as it appears to be, especially if it's spiced up with marketing. A good example is the debate on the budget of Horizon 2020.
As monitoring of scholars' performance, time and output increases, so do reservations about its value and effectiveness
Research Practices that May Help Increase the Proportion of True Research Findings
Cross-disciplinarity is found particularly in research project proposals of fields of science with clearly overlapping content and mainly in research proposals submitted by fields of science within the humanities and social sciences.
With the increasing complexities of new technologies and techniques, coupled with the specialisation of experiments, reproducing research findings has become a growing challenge.
We discuss the views and experiences of our Editorial Board Members towards open peer review on this biomedical journal.
Celebrating Open Access Week 2014 affords an opportunity to study and promote all aspects of ‘Open.’
Raw data from Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan's annual Author Insights survey.
More than half of all peer-reviewed research articles published from 2007 to 2012 are now free to download somewhere on the Internet, according to a report produced for the European Commission.
Vor der Abstimmung zur SVP-Initiative war von den Schweizer Wissenschaftlern nicht viel zu hören gewesen. Nun schalten sie sich offiziell in die Politik ein.
Er gründet eine Online-Zeitschrift ohne jegliche Schranke, twittert die Mitteilungen des Bundesgerichts und bemüht sich hartnäckig darum, dass alle Gerichte ihre Urteile zugänglich machen: Daniel Hürlimann rüttelt am Justizapparat.
A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia.
Newly appointed chief executive of the CSIRO Larry Marshall says he is comfortable with crises, which can become a ‘catalyst for change and redirection’
Hundreds of scientists around the world are asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end "burdensome restrictions on scientific communication and collaboration faced by Canadian government scientists."
Welcome efforts are being made to recognize academics who give up their time to peer review.
Housing industry labs in academic settings benefits all parties.
Pros and cons of an alternative for today’s method of allocating research funds using peer review.
Universities are no longer viewed predominantly as places driven by curiosity and a thirst for knowledge. Instead, they are drivers of economic development.
There’s been a very sharp increase in the proportion of administrators to faculty and students in the last 30-40 years.
This paper is concerned with the measurement of citation impact and societal impact, and looks at the basis, the effects and the problems of impact measurement.
Intransparenz bei den Bibliotheksausgaben von Schweizer Hochschulen
New ways to help the Science Lab community build tools and solve problems together.
“When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it..."
University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls.
