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At the invitation of Horst Hippler, chair of the German conference of university rectors and the Projekt DEAL initiatives, representatives from multiple countries met in Berlin to share their views and tales of the ongoing negotiations on open access.
Information about participants in the unprecedented “All of Us” study is protected from inquiries by law enforcement, officials said.
Magdalena Skipper, who is currently editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Nature Communications, will become the eighth editor of Nature. She will take over from Philip Campbell, who will move to the newly created post of editor in chief at publisher Springer Nature on 1 July.
Study suggests doctorates are now seen as a test of character rather than intellect.
A crucial component of the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences project is the compilation of self-reported data from scientists via a global, multilingual, and multidisciplinary survey.
More than two thousand researchers have signed a petition to boycott a new Nature journal over the fact it will be available only by subscription.
Overall, the most elite ranks of Europe’s Most Innovative Universities have held steady from last year. The list was compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, and is based on proprietary data and analysis of patent filings and research paper citations.
In January 2018, Spanish Government published the State Plan for Research, Development and Innovation 2017-2020 that includes important news on open access to scientific publications and research data.
First female editor in Nature's nearly 150 year history.
A group of 23 U.S. government agencies, including the NSF, have joined to produce the Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research, which outlines the objectives, structure and principles for coordinated research in this important field of study.
Nature has just announce plans to create a Machine Intelligence imprint, and researchers in this normally open access field are not happy. Over two thousand have signed a statement saying they won’t publish in it.
A single academic paper, published by three Australian researchers in 2007, has been cited by Wikipedia editors over 2.8 million times - the next most popular work only shows up a little more than 21,000. And the researchers behind it didn't have a clue.
The isolated nation publishes fewer than 100 scholarly articles a year - but as political tensions thaw, researchers hope for greater collaboration.
Response to a proposed rule announced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a 24 April 2018 press release.
Institutions including Oxford and Cambridge under scrutiny as the number of academic misconduct cases surges.
As Inder Verma soared at Salk Institute, women say a parallel tale of unwelcome advances and comments unfolded.
Images from Landsat satellites and agricultural-survey programme are freely available to scientists - but for how long?
The agency plans to publish a new regulation Tuesday that would restrict the kinds of scientific studies the agency can use when it develops policies.
PLOS ONE has created a Physical Sciences and Engineering team as part of a wider effort to better serve our communities through subject-specific in-house editorial groups.
Artificial intelligence could speed up metagenomic studies that look for species unknown to science.
