Open Data soll Tausende Arbeitsplätze schaffen Am 16. September lanciert der Bund ein Open-Data-Internetportal. Verschiedene Bundesämter stellen dort der Öffentlichkeit Behördendaten frei verwendbar über eine zentrale Plattform zur Verfügung. Der Bund verfügt über umfangreiche Datenbestände von hoher Qualität. Heute sind diese Daten dezentral abgelegt. Einen Teil davon will der Bund ab dem 16.

The route to open-access publishing endorsed by the British government puts unacceptable strains on research budgets at a time of funding shortages. The report also argues for more transparency and competition in the costs of publishing research.

Mit Werbeveranstaltungen versucht der Bund, deutsche Wissenschaftler aus den USA zurückzuholen. Doch die fürchten die schlechten Karrierechancen diesseits des Atlantiks - und scheuen die miese Bezahlung.

Eleven of the most selective universities in the US have a combined $26 billion (£16.8 billion) in debt on the books, according to a new analysis.

The amount of government funding for science and technology in Canada is expected to decline for another year.

The World Academic Summit Innovation Index finds that university scientific researchers from many Asian nations are attracting substantially more industry funding per researcher than their American counterparts.

A team leader at the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis in Riga is looking to leave Latvia in search of a paying job in science, trying to escape what he calls the 'catastrophic' situation in research.

La ruée vers les écoles américaines de tous les bons élèves du monde entier s'essouffle, d'après le Council of graduate schools. Sauf pour les Brésiliens et les Indiens, qui sont toujours plus nombreux à faire leur migration académique.

Only one in 20 black South Africans succeeds in higher education, and more than half who enrol at university drop out before completing their degree, according to research published this week.

Beate Schücking ist eine von sehr wenigen Frauen an der Spitze einer deutschen Universität. Sie wurde bekannt, als die Uni Leipzig beschloss, Hochschullehrer als "Professorin" zu bezeichnen.

NSF invests $20 million in large projects to keep the nation's cyberspace secure and trustworthy: Three large "Frontier" collaborative projects highlight efforts to tackle fundamental challenges in cybersecurity.

The European Union's Horizon 2020 research program will offer researchers a generous source of funds for projects to resolve the challenges of today's society.

Auf der neusten Rangliste der weltbesten Universitäten ist die ETH in die Top 20 vorgerückt. Die Uni Zürich dagegen ist zurückgefallen - zum vierten Mal in Folge.

Science International has developed an international accord on the values of open data in the emerging scientific culture of big data. Endorsements are welcome until 1 May 2016.

Only one-third of trials at US medical centres are reported within two years of completion.

The NSF announced its intention to hand out small grants later this year to dozens of institutions to test novel ways of broadening participation in science and engineering.

The NIH will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals.

Massimo Inguscio will take over from engineer Luigi Nicolais as president of Italy's largest research organization.

The President of the Research Council of the SNSF will take office on 1 January 2017, succeeding Patrick Aebischer, who has had 16 years at the helm of EPFL.

Anders Hamsten, has resigned after acknowledging that he mishandled the prestigious Swedish institute's investigation into controversial surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.

Moves to speed up the release of Zika virus research in response to the public health crisis highlight a systemic failure in scientific publishing.

Paper underscores the limitations of peer review as a means of assessing grant applications in an era when typical success rates are often as low as about 10% in the US.

ASAPbio meeting discusses the ins and outs of posting work online before peer review.

The widening scandal surrounding surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and his employment at the Karolinska Insitute in Stockholm has prompted Urban Lendahl, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly, to resign.

Many research advocates worry that the proposal could backfire in the face of political opposition.

20 funding organizations and public funding agencies from 11 countries promise that they will require grantees to have plans in place for sharing their results and data ASAP.

High-profile physicist says his students' papers were wrongly rejected by the preprint server's volunteer moderators.

Scientists are becoming increasingly frustrated by the time it takes to publish a paper.

After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.

The biotech company Amgen Inc. and prominent biochemist Bruce Alberts have created a new online journal that aims to lift the curtain on often hidden results in biomedicine: failed efforts to confirm other groups' published papers.