Looking beyond a much used and abused measure would make science harder, but better.

Due a to a misconfigured server, a researcher found a constant stream of Elsevier users' passwords.

Whether probing the evolution of galaxies or discovering new chemical compounds, algorithms are detecting patterns no humans could have spotted.

Der Nationalfonds ist der wichtigste Förderer hiesiger Forschung.

The ETH Zurich Executive Board is submitting a request to the ETH Board for the dismissal of a professor, while simultaneously launching a package of measures to improve the quality of leadership and supervision at ETH.

With an analysis of DNA from nearly 300 fossilized remains, scientists are peering into human prehistory in the region.

ETH Zurich has submitted a request to the ETH Board to terminate the employment relationship with a professor in the former Institute for Astronomy. To avoid as far as possible similar cases from escalating in future, ETH Zurich is adapting its structures and processes.

The 2010 reform of the Italian university system introduced the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) as a requirement for applying to permanent professor positions. Since the CVs of the 59149 candidates and the results of their assessments have been made publicly available, the ASN constitutes an opportunity to perform analyses about a nation-wide evaluation process.

Eric Lander, Françoise Baylis, Feng Zhang, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Berg and specialists from seven countries call for an international governance framework on genome editing.

New guides for researchers and project coordinators will be presented during the webinar on 29 March 2019. 

The concerns of the young protesters are justified.

Hindawi partners with Publons to improve and speed up the peer review process.

New software enables the rapid submission of manuscripts for initial assessment.

The offer from Elsevier is a long way from fulfilling the Norwegian requirements for open access to research articles. There is also no movement in transitioning the agreement from paying to read to paying for open publishing. Norwegian research institutions will therefore not renew the agreement with Elsevier for 2019. 

As President Trump requests deep budget cuts on science spending, he is likely to meet strong opposition in Congress.

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.