eLife has appointed Paul Shannon as its new Head of Technology to oversee the development of tools and software in support of science communication.

Send us your candidates, government says

The majority of our authors are opting in to publish reviewer reports of their papers.

A PLOS selection of research articles, guidelines, and commentaries about data sharing, data practices, and data policies from different research fields.

The Winnower will power a range of publishing services for researchers who are writing on Authorea.

Biomedical funders worldwide are adopting the US agency’s free Relative Citation Ratio to analyse grant outcomes.

World Health Organization asks research initiatives to focus on translating their findings into clinical benefits.

Tata Trusts and UC San Diego partner to establish Tata Institute for Active Genetics and Society.

The University of Oregon is launching a new science campus, backed by a $500 million gift from Nike Inc. co-founder Phil Knight and his wife.

Republicans sweep White House and US Congress, with uncertain implications for research

Reviewers who are experts in a given field are more likely to deliver harsher critiques of papers that hit close to home, researchers report.

Agency’s governing board discusses mandatory 10% reimbursement for visiting scientists.

The European Commission and the European Investment Fund are inviting applications for setting up and managing one or more private-sector led, market-driven Pan-European Venture Capital Funds-of-Funds.

5-year subscription access to around 1,850 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect e-platform.

Computerized search of trial registry lists worst offenders.

Podcasting can offer personal and professional benefits for researchers who want to dive in.

Calculation suggests papers with women first-authors have citation rates pushed down by 10%.

Updating postdoc administration at institutions.

PhD students who teach at private universities like Yale have been recognised as employees and have the right to unionise. It’s a historic moment.

A free, open source, preprints repository, api, and aggregator for arXiv, PeerJ, Research Papers in Economics, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, and others.

A court case may define the limits of anonymous scientific criticism

A practical pathway to becoming an expert reviewer.

Nature readers reveal working hours and research challenges. In an online poll, almost two-thirds of readers say they have considered quitting research.

These Guys Built a $273 Million Startup From Discarded Computers and an Almost Secret Source of Seed Money.

More than 1000 academics fired.

Scientific research is being skewed by researchers and journals changing what they're looking for after the results of the study come in. But some people are finding ways to fight back against their own bias.

Half of clinical trials do not have their results published. Those behind the TrialsTracker, a web tool created by the Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, at Oxford University, hope to change this.

Erdogan, has taken direct control of the appointment of university rectors and a further 1,267 academics have been dismissed.

The announced ranking will include 300 universities from 41 countries

New equation also suggests way to predict a researcher's potential to produce top work.