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Xi Jinping Power Grab Disturbs Students, Scholars Abroad

Xi Jinping Power Grab Disturbs Students, Scholars Abroad

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.

How a Partnership Over Annotation Software Fits Into Bigger Changes in Research Workflow

How a Partnership Over Annotation Software Fits Into Bigger Changes in Research Workflow

Elsevier announced a partnership with a nonprofit named Hypothesis, which makes annotation software that lets readers make margin notes on online articles.

UK Scientists Brace for Disruption from Huge Academic Strike

UK Scientists Brace for Disruption from Huge Academic Strike

Pension changes spur more than 40,000 university academics to walk out on research activities, conferences and lectures.

Canadian Science Wins Billions in New Budget

Canadian Science Wins Billions in New Budget

Canada's 2018 budget includes almost Can$4 billion (US$3.1 billion) in new funding for science over the next five years. This is in contrast to the Can$1 billion in new science funding contained in last year's budget - almost none of which went to basic research.

Scientist Takes Her Sexual Harassment Findings to Congress

Scientist Takes Her Sexual Harassment Findings to Congress

Kathryn Clancy has spent years studying how sexual harassment pervades science. This week, she’s taking those findings to Congress.

SpringerNature Hurries 7 Billion Euro Frankfurt Listing

SpringerNature Hurries 7 Billion Euro Frankfurt Listing

SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazine Nature, has brought forward a listing which may value it at more than 7 billion euros ($8.6 billion) including debt, to reduce the risk from volatile stock markets.

Researchers Have Finally Created a Tool to Spot Duplicated Images Across Thousands of Papers

Researchers Have Finally Created a Tool to Spot Duplicated Images Across Thousands of Papers

Publishers would need to join forces to apply image-checking software across the literature.

Italian Election Leaves Science out in the Cold

Italian Election Leaves Science out in the Cold

Researchers hold out little hope that the next government will improve their underfunded research system.​

Survey Reveals Federal Departments Still Blocking Access to Scientists

Survey Reveals Federal Departments Still Blocking Access to Scientists

Results show marked improvement compared with 2013 version of the survey, but union says ‘culture shift’ is taking time.

Funding the European Open Science Cloud

Funding the European Open Science Cloud

The European Commission (EC) is currently working on an implementation plan and a roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which should then be adopted on 28 May. EOSC should offer 1.7 million European researchers and 70 million professionals in science and technology a virtual environment with open seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines.

NSF Quietly Recalls Senior Officials in Europe, Asia, Citing Staff Shortfalls

NSF Quietly Recalls Senior Officials in Europe, Asia, Citing Staff Shortfalls

Some see National Science Foundation move as latest retreat in US diplomacy under Trump administration – but agency says it will send more science envoys on visits abroad.

Better Research Thanks to More Gender Equal Staff

Better Research Thanks to More Gender Equal Staff

A new article shows that women more often apply gender perspectives in their research. A diverse research group leads to better and more accurate knowledge about the world, according to Mathias Wullum Nielsen.

Five Women Scientists in Developing Countries Win 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards

Five Women Scientists in Developing Countries Win 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards

Early-career researchers living and working in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ecuador, Guyana, and Indonesia have been recognized for their work in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Libraries Reject Taylor & Francis Opportunistic Change of Contract

Libraries Reject Taylor & Francis Opportunistic Change of Contract

More than hundred and ten libraries have signed an open letter to Taylor & Francis: the academic research which was previously available to universities as part of the Taylor & Francis "big deal" will now have to be purchased as a separate package.