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The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has selected OAPEN and DOAB for its second funding cycle. 

Flying closer than any other mission, spacecraft set to unravel the sun's mysteries

Crowd-based prediction markets have even been shown to outperform intelligence analysts.

OASPA webinar of 2019: invitation to speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access.

It's time to embrace change. Today Europe PubMed Central (PMC) proudly unveils a new website, packed with useful features, including a better search and reading experience, as well as better access to data.

What is the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and why do we need it? Learn more from the team behind it (CDL, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science) in this interview with Alice Meadows.

Horizons should stimulate debate about research and science policy, writes Matthias Egger, the President of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate

Evaluation reforms will go round in circles without conceptual clarity, warns Anna Hatch.

Beijing's pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.

Figures show 11,000 have left UK universities in three years since referendum.

Since India lost contact with the spacecraft in September, the precise location of its crash has been a mystery.

An EPFL Bachelor's student has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for 100 years.

The company's AWS unit will allow customers to tap quantum machines from three startups.

Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions - a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.

CORE Discovery helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher's website. It is backed by our huge dataset of millions of full text open…

Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. The enhanced capability is expected to be a potent tool in helping all nations - not just European ones - better understand their carbon footprint.

A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.

This blog post is a joint announcement of an initiative by several publishers in collaboration with Fairsharing and DataCite to help authors select appropriate data repositories.

Medical school is expensive for everyone. But for low-income students, the hidden costs can be prohibitive.

The incoming president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has given into demands that the word 'research' should feature in the research commissioner's job title, making the change at the last possible minute, just before the European Parliament confirmed the new team of commissioners in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

Foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested.

The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions.

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region's system of mass surveillance.

Research in the US aims to support rollback of methane rules.

Marc Schiltz, Secretary General and Executive Head of the FNR, has been re-elected President of Science Europe, an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations.

Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers, the second largest fully open access publisher in the UK.

Apple Maps now shows Crimea - annexed from Ukraine in 2014 - as part of Russia, when viewed there.

The city of Zurich published data sets of attractions, destinations, restaurants and accommodation that can be freely reused under a CC BY-SA license.