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Reasons to adopt the ORCID identifier and accept the CRediT taxonomy.
Without the extension of the program - or a pathway to citizenship - those who know what it’s like to be undocumented say U.S. science could suffer.
In 1940, the AAUP published a Statement on Academic Freedom. In 2018, it's time for it to be updated--and some items clarified.
The altering of the Chinese national constitution to remove the text limiting China’s president and vice-president to two terms, cementing Xi Jinping’s leadership possibly for the next two decades, will mean a further ideological tightening in universities, and an extension of ‘Xi Jinping research’ in institutions.
Chinese officials say they are seeing a payoff from their investments in higher education.
Some scientists say they should have the right to review stories in which their work or words are covered prior to publication. Journalists disagree.
Elsevier announced a partnership with a nonprofit named Hypothesis, which makes annotation software that lets readers make margin notes on online articles.
On his last day in one of the most powerful research seats in Europe, Robert-Jan Smits talks about his legacy and the future.
HRB Open Research is a platform for rapid, open access publication and open peer review of any research funded by the Health Research Board.
A set of criteria behind PLOS recommended data repositories.
Decolonising knowledge and democratising information is the great promise of our times. With universal access to knowledge, we can begin to achieve the potential of the Internet and provide a better world for future generations.
Science is not a belief system. It is rather a defined process we can use to accurately answer questions and come to a better understanding of our natural world.
With some 173,000 articles during the period 2011-2015, Switzerland produced 1% of worldwide publications. It is therefore in the top 20 countries of all sizes that publish the most scientific articles.
Pension changes spur more than 40,000 university academics to walk out on research activities, conferences and lectures.
New Stanford research shows how companies alienate women before they start working.
FAIRsharing.org: a series of open data resources and tools, and an outlet for the developers and maintainers of these resources to emphasize the approach they take to ensure the data they host and serve are increasingly FAIR.
Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers.
From efforts to increase the transparency of the review process to initiatives offering training, there are many attempts underway to make better reviewers out of researchers.
Robert-Jan Smits, the European Union’s departing director-general of research, sets out his parting thoughts. After eight years, he hands over his role as director-general of the European Commission’s research directorate to Jean-Eric Paquet, currently a deputy-secretary-general at the commission.
What type of university system do we want? One with a casualised workforce and vice-chancellors who can claim they deserve exorbitant pay packages for running commercial organisations? Or one in wh…
Survey reveals reluctance to take open peer review to the limit.
How Andrew Wakefield’s shoddy science fueled autism-vaccine fears.
One of the biggest challenges for researchers is time. So when you find an abstract of interest and have just a moment to actually read, you need the full text right now. With our newest release, the ScienceOpen discovery environment incorporates open access data from Impactstory to provide researchers with more ways to read the …
A free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans complying with funder requirements.
Anja Karliczek is little known in science policy circles.
Data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal.
