Inflexion acquires company from TPG Capital

The government will assess whether a UK granting scheme could help make up for lost EU research funding.

Nature welcomes a registry that supports experiments to improve refereeing.

With Gottlieb on his way out, many will recall the other frontrunners before he got the job who were eager to dismantle the FDA oversight process.

The University of California has broken with one of the world's largest academic publishers. Is this the end of a very profitable business model?

Meetings of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine committee have become the latest front in a national battle over immunization.

The proportion of open-access publications with authors from the pharmaceutical industry doubled between 2009 and 2016.

Happy Open Data Day 2019! It's that special day of the year again! Well, every day should be Open Data Day, but today lots of motivated folk come together around the world to remind us all why Open Data, Open Science, and sharing of data and science in general is better for everyone. Better for reuse, better for tracking public money flows, better for open mapping and development, and also, lest we lost sight, better for the researcher who produced the data! Why better for the researchers who generated the data? Better because the value add from sharing is multifold. Others can reuse and reanalyse your data. If you've placed the data in a repository with a persistent identifier, you'll get attributed when they are reused and you can get credit for this - and even citations. What may not be immediately obvious is that taking a little bit of time to ensure your data are 'sharable' is good practise that ensures that when you want to use

University of California and Dutch publisher fail to strike deal that would allow researchers to publish under open-access terms.

The move could aid a global movement for immediate free access to scientific articles.

CROCI, the Crowdsourced Open Citations Index, is a new OpenCitations Index containing citations deposited by individuals, identified by ORCiD identifiers, who have a legal right to publish them under a CC0 public domain waiver.

The UC system, the largest public academic system in the US, just dropped its $10 million-a-year subscription to the world's largest publisher of academic journals.

In creating a new innovation council, the European Commission is experimenting not just in policy but also in management.

University Librarian and Professor Jeffrey MacKie-Mason talks about why UC split with the academic publisher.

A pilot project representing the first significant experiment with the syndication of publisher content to a content supercontinent.

Thanks largely to the strong performance of ETH Zurich, the Swiss university system has entered the top three globally in the latest QS rankings.

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC's key goal: securing universal open access to UC research while containing the rapidly escalating costs associated with for-profit journals.

If the documents are correct, they would raise doubts about the preliminary findings of a government investigation that He Jianqui acted mostly on his own.

Scientists now know more about what makes Lil Bub such a unique feline. 

The Dutch universities will give open access an extra boost from 2019 by starting a pilot to make publications available after six months in collaboration with researchers.

Funding cuts proposed by the White House are reversed in a budget that is over four months late.

The concept of science diplomacy has gained enormous traction over the past decade, though in itself it is of older origin.

Elsevier saw 2% underlying revenue growth in 2018, according to the latest annual financial results filed by parent company RELX, to a total of £2,538m.

Ladies and gentlemen, we appear to have a new record. The Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences (JFAS) recently retracted 434 articles from three issues of their journal. Yes, 434, giving it …

A Vanderbilt faculty member, considered a hero to many women in science, finds her once promising tenure bid has stalled.

Shifting attitudes of researchers towards open access mandates.

Project Deal, a consortium of libraries, universities, and research institutes in Germany, has unveiled an unprecedented deal with a major journal publisher, Wiley, that is drawing close scrutiny from advocates of open access to scientific papers.