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We should be nurturing the kinds of publishing cultures we want to see: those that value the labour needed to care for publishing and that work in harmony with research communities rather than extract from them, argues Samuel Moore.
Ruthless labor exploitation? Generational betrayal? Understanding the job crisis in academia requires a look at recent history.
What happened instead of us sitting down and thinking how we could spend our money in the most technologically savvy way to the benefit of science, scholars and society. A generation later, roughly US$300 billion poorer and none the wiser, it seems.
The public call for rapid sharing of research data relevant to the COVID-19 outbreak is driving an unprecedented surge in (unrefereed) preprints. To help pinpoint the most important research, Nature launched Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview, an open-source platform for rapid review of preprints related to emerging outbreaks.
COAR and SPARC have published a joint response to the OSTP Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research. Good data management is critical for ensuring validation, transparency of research findings, as well as to maximize impact and value of publicly-funded research through data reuse.
Science and scientists face crushing opposition. In addition to silent-spreading disease and a burning planet, they must take on the moneyed, the godly, the dictatorial and Mike Pence.
Europe PMC has made changes to make sense of preprint versions.
Adult learning is at a 20-year low because mature students can't study flexibly. This must change
The university analysts at QS have published their 2020 rankings by subject.
This New Nature Economy report calls out the dependency and impact of business on nature and aims to ensure that biodiversity and nature-related risks are appropriately considered within the broader economic growth agenda.
Swiss scientists fear a number of political obstacles could block their path into the EU's next big research programme.
After the success of the first two rounds, Women in Technology is organising the third year of WIT Mentoring.
This report shows the results of a survey conducted in spring 2019 among all people who received a PhD in political science from a Swiss university during the last eleven years (2008 to 2018) and among postdocs working in a Swiss university in June 2019. Thus, this survey sheds light on the experiences and career paths of both postdocs and doctors in political science who left academia. Moreover, it compares the results regarding postdocs with a similar study carried out in 2012.
The Swiss National Science Foundation is testing a new CV format for researchers applying for project funding in biology and medicine (submission deadline 01 April 2020).
A hugely successful research system is being tested by a dispute over immigration and a deteriorating relationship with the EU.
The coronavirus crisis shows how the free sharing of data is crucial in science.
For a variety of reasons, researchers want to figure out who's most at risk of being infected and who's most at risk of developing severe illness.
New OA payment models are needed make open access implementation practical, journal editor says.
This new meeting at the Wellcome Genome Campus will bring together an international audience of researchers motivated to improve the robustness of scientific research.
A researcher from the Wuhan University of China offers a view of how Chinese researchers are reacting and are likely to alter their behavior in response to new policies governing research evaluation.
An example of finding the balance between personal and professional lives during moves overseas and in and out of academia.
Coronavirus concerns have some businesses urging employees to work from home. If you're telecommuting, for public health reasons or otherwise, remember: Boundaries are your friend.
Some students do feel political pressure from their professors, but few change their views.
WHO calls on industry and governments to increase manufacturing by 40 per cent to meet rising global demand.
By Rick Anderson, President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
The National Association of Science Writers calls on the Trump Administration to allow government experts to speak freely about the outbreak of the coronavirus disease COVID-19.
