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Turmoil Erupts over Expulsion from Leading Evidence-based Medicine Group

Turmoil Erupts over Expulsion from Leading Evidence-based Medicine Group

One of the medical world’s most respected expert bodies is in turmoil as its annual meeting gets underway after its governing board voted to expel a member.

A Look Inside Chan Zuckerberg, the Philanthropic Project Funded by Billions in Facebook Stock Sales

A Look Inside Chan Zuckerberg, the Philanthropic Project Funded by Billions in Facebook Stock Sales

Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced an audacious plan to use their Facebook fortune to try and end disease in their children's lifetime, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has ballooned to 250 people. 

58 Organizations Gather to Workshop a Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools

58 Organizations Gather to Workshop a Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools

86 people from 58 different organizations gathered in Berkeley, CA and remotely to attend the first workshop convened by the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools, to develop a common vision, user stories, and roadmap to support open science research workflows, and better coordinate work across the community of open science projects.

Half of European Clinical Trials Haven’t Reported Results

Half of European Clinical Trials Haven’t Reported Results

EU rules say clinical trial results must be reported onto the EU register for every trial there within 12 months of the end of the trial, yet no one has ever been sanctioned for breaking the European rules. European academic institutes are lagging far behind companies in complying with the reporting rules.

COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1

COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1

COUNTER and members of the Make Data Count team (California Digital Library, DataCite, and DataONE) collaborated in drafting the Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1.

CRISPR Patent Decision Didn't Get the Science Right. But the Ruling Was Fair

CRISPR Patent Decision Didn't Get the Science Right. But the Ruling Was Fair

Many scientists disagree with the CRISPR patent ruling, believing it doesn't represent how molecular biology is practiced. That doesn't make it wrong.

With the European Parliament Vote on the Copyright Directive, the Internet Lost - for Now

With the European Parliament Vote on the Copyright Directive, the Internet Lost - for Now

The Parliament voted in favor of almost all provisions that extend more rights to the establishment copyright industries while failing to protect users and new creators online.

Corporate Sponsors for NASA? Agency to Study Making Space for Brands

Corporate Sponsors for NASA? Agency to Study Making Space for Brands

In an era of flat budgets for the agency, Jim Bridenstine has started talking about corporate sponsorships for NASA missions.

Role Models Tell Girls That STEM’s for Them in New Campaign

Role Models Tell Girls That STEM’s for Them in New Campaign

The Ad Council - along with G.E., Google, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon - is trying to encourage girls ages 11 to 15 to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math.

Bell Burnell: Physics Star Gives Away GBP2.3M Prize

Bell Burnell: Physics Star Gives Away GBP2.3M Prize

One of the UK's leading female astronomers is to donate her GBP2.3M winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers.

Documentary Puts Lens on the Open-Access Movement Upending Scientific Publishing

Documentary Puts Lens on the Open-Access Movement Upending Scientific Publishing

Paywall, a documentary about the open-access movement, makes its debut and will be available online.

Radical Open-Access Plan Could Spell End to Journal Subscriptions

Radical Open-Access Plan Could Spell End to Journal Subscriptions

Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published.

Science Without Publication Paywalls: cOAlition S for the Realisation of Full and Immediate Open Access

Science Without Publication Paywalls: cOAlition S for the Realisation of Full and Immediate Open Access

In this Perspective, a group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, announce plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies' research funding.

cOAlition S: An Initiative to Make Full and Immediate Open Access to Research Publications a Reality

cOAlition S: An Initiative to Make Full and Immediate Open Access to Research Publications a Reality

The 11 national research funding organisations that form cOAlition S have agreed to implement the 10 principles of Plan S in a coordinated way, together with the European Commission including the ERC. Other research funders from across the world, both public and private, are invited to join cOAlition S.