How to move from FAIR principles to FAIR practice? During the past year, the FAIR practice task force under the umbrella of the EOSC FAIR Working Group has been gathering its understanding of the current state of FAIR practices across diverse communities, and making recommendations aimed primarily at research funders and policymakers on how to ensure that "FAIR" provides maximum value in the European Open Science Cloud.

"Rushed" timeline would create safety risks and undermine credibility of Indian science, critics say

Sethuraman Panchanathan has spent his career finding "win-win" situations

The new Department of Homeland Security rule prohibits international students from returning to or remaining in the United States if their colleges adopt an online-only instruction model for the fall.

​​ The eLife Early-Career Advisory Group calls for radical changes at eLife and other journals to make science more diverse and inclusive.

San Quentin prison is dealing with the third-largest coronavirus outbreak in the United States: researchers fear that other prisons are at risk.

Its decision to carry on in the face of the pandemic has yielded a surge of deaths without sparing its economy from damage - a red flag as the United States and Britain move to lift lockdowns.

Many American public-health specialists are at risk of burning out as the coronavirus surges back.

Spain's large-scale study on the coronavirus indicates just 5% of its population has developed antibodies, strengthening evidence that a so-called herd immunity to Covid-19 is "unachievable," the medical journal the Lancet reported on Monday.

Open letter says there is emerging evidence of potential for aerosol transmission.

Most universities plan to bring students back to campus. But many of their teachers are concerned about joining them.

A research institute that appointed Pier Paolo Pandolfi as its scientific director has reversed its decision after internal protests.

Public health messaging and science have to work hard to stay in sync during a crisis. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they haven't always succeeded.

Investigators say the delay was prompted by changes to the trial plan, called a protocol, while stressing such changes are common.

Clinical study has been helped by a simple design, a centralized health care system, and lots of infections

In the present paper, we attempt to characterise, quantify and measure the response of academia to international public health emergencies in a comparative bibliometric study of multiple outbreaks.

The Open Data Institute invites people from across the globe to join and discuss how humanity can harness the power of data in a changing world.

There is a preprint with data on the first coronavirus vaccine candidate from the Pfizer/BioNTech effort. This article argues that it's extremely important that the human trial data is made available for the public to trust the vaccines that get approved.  

R&D Roadmap sets out vision to attract global talent, increase investment, cut unnecessary bureaucracy, and cement the UK as a world-leading science superpower.

swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative Open Access agreement with Springer Nature. This agreement provides Swiss researchers with access to SpringerLink with over 2’000 Hybrid journals and enables authors affiliated with the Swiss academic and research institutions to publish their accepted research papers Open Access, making this primary research immediately and freely accessible from the point of publication.

The SNSF and the Dutch Research Council have agreed to finance joint projects. This will make it much easier for Swiss researchers to collaborate with their Dutch counterparts.

Ian Sample talks to Prof Kate Jones about whether the current coronavirus pandemic is part of a wider picture of increasing animal to human virus transmission.

Study says surge in volcanic activity could not have caused Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction event.

Publishers have had a good 355 years, but change is coming.

Are impact factors manipulated by a large-scale practice of self-citation?

MIT Press is launching a journal that will review Covid-19 preprints, in an effort to quickly call out misinformation and highlight credible research.

Two support packages will give greater job protection to thousands of researchers, scientists and technicians working at UK universities during coronavirus (COVID-19).

The UK government has announced some significant new measures for universities and research impacted by Covid-19 this year.