news

Subscribe to our newsletter

Send us a link

Chinese Researchers to Get More Autonomy over Lab Spending

Chinese Researchers to Get More Autonomy over Lab Spending

Revised rules are designed to help researchers focus on their work and compete with their counterparts globally.

Quarter of universities not reporting on potential malpractice - News from Parliament

Quarter of universities not reporting on potential malpractice - News from Parliament

Science and Technology Committee publish report on research integrity

Preprints in Europe PMC: Reducing Friction for Discoverability

Preprints in Europe PMC: Reducing Friction for Discoverability

From July 2018, the Europe PMC repository will start indexing preprints.

Wellcome Trust Launches $330M Initiative to Fund High-Risk Life Sciences Projects

Wellcome Trust Launches $330M Initiative to Fund High-Risk Life Sciences Projects

One of the world’s largest biomedical research charities is setting up a new initiative to fund outside-the-box science.

GetTheResearch.org: A New Tool for Open-Access Research

GetTheResearch.org: A New Tool for Open-Access Research

A new search engine that aims to connect nonacademics with open-access research will be launched this fall. Get the Research will connect the public with 20 million open-access scholarly articles. The site will be built by Impactstory in conjunction with the Internet Archive and the British Library.

Hidden Conflicts?

Hidden Conflicts?

An investigative report uncovers little recognized and unpoliced potential conflicts of interest among those who serve on FDA advisory panels that review drugs. FDA may also have missed or judged insignificant financial ties physicians had before their service on the drug approval advisory panels.

Scientists Applaud Resignation of Embattled US Environment Chief

Scientists Applaud Resignation of Embattled US Environment Chief

Scott Pruitt, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, resigned on 5 July amid a series of ethical and spending scandals throughout his 16 months at the agency.

Contentious Copyright Proposals Reopened for Amendment

Contentious Copyright Proposals Reopened for Amendment

The European Parliament has paused the progress of controversial EU copyright proposals, which R&D organisations have said would be damaging for innovation, meaning they could now be revised.

New Statement on Women and Computer Science

New Statement on Women and Computer Science

An instructor at the University of Washington set off a major debate there and elsewhere over his recent essay in which he says that the low proportion of women in computer science is at this point largely a result of women's choices and is unlikely to change. University officials immediately disputed his claims.

France Has Its OA Mandate

France Has Its OA Mandate

Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, launched the national open science plan at the annual congress of the Association of European Research Library (LIBER).

Europe's Biggest Research Fund Cracks down on 'Ethics Dumping'

Europe's Biggest Research Fund Cracks down on 'Ethics Dumping'

Horizon 2020: the practice of conducting ethically dubious research in foreign countries is under fresh scrutiny.

Elsevier Serves the Global Research Community to Deliver Open Science

Elsevier Serves the Global Research Community to Deliver Open Science

Dr. Jon Tennant’s June 29 article in The Guardian Online, "Elsevier are corrupting open science in Europe," raises fundamental questions about open science, and is coupled with misinformation about Elsevier’s role. Both deserve a response.

The 'Loss of Confidence Project' Offers Scientists a Place to Confess

The 'Loss of Confidence Project' Offers Scientists a Place to Confess

What are researchers to do when they lose confidence in their previously published work? A new project has an answer. Will it help the replication crisis?

Clarivate Analytics Releases Citation Distribution Data Alongside Journal Impact Factors

Clarivate Analytics Releases Citation Distribution Data Alongside Journal Impact Factors

New interface shifts from journal metrics to journal intelligence, offering richer data and greater transparency for comprehensive assessment.

Peer Review: eLife Trials a New Approach

Peer Review: eLife Trials a New Approach

eLife authors are being invited to take part in a trial in which they decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review.

The Center for Open Science and AfricArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service

The Center for Open Science and AfricArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service

AfricArXiv (African Science Archive) is a new and free open access repository on Science in Africa for African scientists to share their research outputs in all scientific fields.

A Leading Climate Agency May Lose Its Climate Focus

A Leading Climate Agency May Lose Its Climate Focus

The Trump Administration appears to be removing references to climate from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s mission statement.

Introducing the Free Journal Network: a Community-Controlled Open Access Publishing

Introducing the Free Journal Network: a Community-Controlled Open Access Publishing

The Free Journal Network was established earlier this year in order to nurture and promote journals that are free to both authors and readers and run according to the Fair Open Access Principles.