A decades-long surge in the numbers of US biomedical postdocs may finally have ended..

Graduate students dream of academia but are keeping their career options open, according to a 2015 Nature survey.

University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a [3]Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide.

Sixty three per cent of original research articles published to date on nature.com in 2015 are open access, nearly 10,000 papers. Ten years ago, NPG introduced its first fully open access journal. Today, NPG publishes over 80 journals with an open access option.

Many scientists still not bothering to address an issue that undermines the reproducibility of research findings.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced plans for two new peer-reviewed journals, Science Robotics and Science Immunology..

The Wellcome Trust is to fund more long-term research projects because of fears that the pressure to publish and the need to show research impact will prevent academics from successfully tackling the world's most pressing challenges.

Building on the momentum of Peer Review Week 2015, we are excited to announce a partnership with ORCID to extend the credit you get from your Publons verified reviews.

University that gave shelter to Einstein quietly opens its doors to Syrian refugees.

The European Commission will boost competitiveness by investing almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding scheme.

LERU Statement for the 2016 Dutch EU Presidency.

Michael Lauer, who has been with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute since 2007, will become NIH deputy director for extramural research in a few weeks.

A new program will connect researchers with universities but won't give them preferential treatment.

Nobel Prize winners 2015

The world dominance of US universities has further waned in the THE World University Rankings 2015-2016. ETHZ is 9th.

The League of European Research Universities calls for leadership on gender equality issues.

Authors with an ORCID iD will be able to have Crossref automatically push information about their published work to their ORCID record.

GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data.

The NIH Advisory Committee to the Director issued recommendations laying out a blueprint for the Obama Administration's precision medicine initiative, including the framework for building a large-scale, national research cohort of 1 million or more Americans.

The Open Library of Humanities launches with seven journals and the support of 99 institutions.

PLOS ONE increases author publication costs rates in 10%.

A new survey from L’Oreal looks at the public’s perception of female scientists with shocking results. (Particularly if you live in China.)

Report warns that growing government regulations detracts from research.

In a four-paragraph editorial published in 2014, the "Journal of Criminal Justice" made 47 citations, all of other pieces that had appeared in the same publication.

According to a new paper, the "deluge" of new scientific papers that academics have to read makes it all but impossible to know what research to trust.

Jimmy Wales co-founder of Wikipedia asked to reconsider arrangement with paywalled science publisher Elsevier.

Change in methodology beneficial to ETHZ and EPFL.

More than 150 scientists have been nominated as prospective members of the European Commission's Science Advice Mechanism.

7 universities are to close liberal arts and social science courses.

Obama issues a new Executive Order directing agencies to use behavioral science.