Movement to publicly record peer-reviewing activity gains momentum.

Die Universität Basel wird ab 1. August 2015 von einer Frau geführt. Die neue Rektorin ist eine Wirtschaftsprofessorin aus Zürich.

Russian government failed to pay for the subscription for 2014 to the amount of €890,000 (US$1 million).

Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles.

Report and survey provide insider’s view into the various components that determine a university’s global academic reputation.

eLife has partnered with Publons to help reviewers receive recognition for their work.

Frontiers, based in Lausanne, removed 31 editors from two journals after the editors complained that company staff were interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing.

Jo Johnson is smart and well-connected, but will not attend highest-level policy meetings.

Researchers Reject Nature’s Fast Track Peer Review Experiment.

President Juncker welcomes world-leading scientists, discusses role of science in competitiveness and announces new mechanism for scientific advice.

Intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn is expected.

Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature.

An ambitious [11]effort to replicate 100 research findings in psychology ended last week - and the data look worrying.

[8]F1000Workspace offers scientists a comprehensive suite of software and services to write and collaborate on papers, annotate and share references and articles, as well as easily discover and save relevant new articles.

[5]Royal Society Open Science aims to tackle the biases in traditional formats.

You're in your 60s. Should you stay in the lab, or make way for the next generation?

A crowdfunding campaign for a brain imaging study closed Monday after raising almost $80,000 toward a unique goal: the first functional magnetic resonance images of the brain on LSD.

A peer reviewer's suggestion that two female researchers find "one or two male biologists" to co-author and help them strengthen a manuscript they had written and submitted to a journal has unleashed an avalanche of disbelief and disgust on Twitter today.

The fall out from the STAP case is still being felt across Japan.

The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs..

Science 2.0 is a new approach to science that uses information-sharing and collaboration made possible by network technologies. This consultation gathers the opinions of a broad sample of interested parties from across the EU research landscape.

Miguel Seabra stepped down from the presidency of Portugal's science funding agency. Although Seabra invoked "personal reasons" for his decision, scientists note that he resigned amid mounting criticism of the agency's policies.

'Premature' rules for preclinical research need more flexibility and greater community involvement, say scientific society leaders.

Germany's ruling political parties have agreed to plough €5 billion (US$5.4 billion) more into science from 2018 to 2028.

The European Parliament has thrown a spanner into the works of Juncker's plan to slash €2.7 billion from the EU's 2014 to 2020 research budget for a new investment fund to help ramp up Europe's economy.

Rumours of germline modification prove true — and look set to reignite an ethical debate.

The $3-million state initiative will coordinate with a national effort to promote individualized patient treatment.

Nature Biotechnology asks peer reviewers to check accessibility of code used in computational studies.

Nature readers favour creating more secure jobs to fix science’s broken postdoctoral system.

Problems plague EU Medical Research Initiative.