A second wave of closures looms as the government funding fight barrels towards a record-breaking fourth week.

Printer closures and paper shortages create scheduling headaches for academic authors and staff at university presses.

Agencies including the National Science Foundation are without funding

Data for age profile of academic workforces across the continent show wide variation between countries. 

Walter Ricciardi, the head of Italy's national health research organisation, says the populist government has 'difficulty interacting with science'.

Research community welcomes meteorologist as Trump's new science adviser, after two years without one, but the office he will run is currently closed.

Space missions can continue to collect data, but thousands of federal researchers are forced to stay home without pay.

The integration of AIRA - Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant - into Frontiers' digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling.

BMC Biology's 'portable peer review' policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections.

Senate confirms meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Grant checks from NSF and other funders won't go out. Meetings on grant applications won't take place. Impact will grow with length of standoff. Trump threat on border with Mexico alarms some Texas campuses.

But it will likely lack the broad powers favored by supporters of a Green New Deal.

The University of California is re-negotiating its systemwide licenses with some of the world's largest scholarly journal publishers, including Elsevier, to provide additional open access options for UC authors. In these negotiations, the UC is seeking a single, integrated contract with each publisher that covers both the university's subscriptions and open access publishing of UC research in their journals - what are often known as "publish and read" agreements.

The Max Planck Society is going to discontinue their Elsevier subscription. By doing so the Society joins nearly 200 universities and research institutions in Germany who have already cancelled their agreements with Elsevier.

As some editors are moving to 'flip' their journal the publishing giant offers considerable compensations to change their minds.

CWTS announces the launch of the new course called "Responsible Metrics for Research Evaluation".

Elsevier,  the information analytics business specializing in science and health, has acquired Science-Metrix Inc., a research evaluation firm that provides science research evaluation and analytics to assess science and technology activities

A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the Sun. It was announced Monday by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard, the University of Hawaii's David Tholen, and Northern Arizona University's Chad Trujillo made the discovery.

Particles associated with a blazar kick-start the field of neutrino astronomy.

Many land-grant schools have submitted bids despite objections by researchers

Offending researchers could face restrictions on jobs, loans and business opportunities under a system tied to the controversial social credit policy.

M4K Pharma was incorporated to launch an open science drug discovery program that relies on regulatory exclusivity as its primary intellectual property and commercial asset, in lieu of patents. In many cases and in key markets, using regulatory exclusivity can provide equivalent commercial protection to patents, while also being compatible with open science. The model is proving attractive to government, foundation and individual funders, who collectively have different expectations for returns on investment compared with biotech, pharmaceutical companies, or venture capital investors.In the absence of these investor-driven requirements for returns, it should be possible to commercialize therapeutics at affordable prices. M4K is piloting this open science business model in a rare paediatric brain tumour, but there is no reason it should not be more widely applicable.

In 2018, there has been a drop in the number of fully OA journals published by Elsevier, from 416 to 328 journals. The majority of Elsevier’s fully OA journals are still non-charging.

DNA tests can have a placebo effect.

Preservation is an imperative for our community, yet the Digital Preservation Network is disbanding. What lessons can we learn from its struggle?

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) reiterates its support for the goal of Plan S to achieve “immediate Open Access to all scholarly publications from research”.

The "commons of the mind" must be preserved, says James Boyle, a founding board director of Creative Commons, on the 50th anniversary of "The tragedy of the commons"

ALLEA welcomes the ambition of the coalition of European research funders to move the scientific publishing system towards open access; however, broader consultation with all parties is required during the implementation phase.