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.

An analysis reveals the extent and impact of research that bridges disciplines.

After correcting a paper due to problematic figure panels, researchers led by Olivier Voinnet have now retracted it.

arXiv will use ORCID iDs in preference to the internal arXiv author identifiers in order to facilitate better data exchange. The arXiv author identifiers will remain to provide local user profile pages.

Well-known mathematician, Tim Gowers, launches an arXiv.org-overlay journal "Discrete Analysis" with no charges for both readers and authors.

Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.

Report praises US$5-billion scheme for making leading universities more competitive - but some smaller institutions have done just as well.

UK data hold lessons for how to close the gender gap in bioscience grant applications, success and size, argue Paul Boyle and colleagues.

We collected some of Switzerland's most exciting technology startups and ranked them by the amount raised, headcount, and how cool and original they are.

Methods videos rising popularity has been spurred on by the so-called replication crisis, itself partly a result of the growing sophistication and interdisciplinary nature of life-science research.

The new journal RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) will publish papers on your methods, workflows, data, reports, and software - in short, all outputs of the research cycle.

The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site..

By paying 3.5 Mio CHF for Elsevier journals in 2014 the ETH tops all British universities..

Amateurs are ready and able to try the CRISPR technique for rewriting genes.

[11]A new study found that 31% of men engage in self-citation, compared to only 21% of women.

Intriguing correlation mined from 140,000 papers.

The rise in ‘kilo-authors’ and ‘gift authorship’ is causing the academy to rethink how it assesses the worth of academic publications.

From the oceans to the soil, technology is changing the part that amateurs can play in research. But this greater involvement raises concerns that must be addressed.

What recent research says about fraud, errors, and other dismaying academic problems.

"If we’re going to rely on science as a means for reaching the truth — and it’s still the best tool we have — it’s important that we understand and respect just how difficult it is to get a rigorous result."

A Brexit would put the UK’s academic success at risk as European research stars go elsewhere.

Springer is pulling another 64 articles from 10 journals after finding evidence of faked peer reviews, bringing the total number of retractions from the phenomenon north of 230.

Open science will be one of the priorities of the Dutch presidency of the European Union in 2016.

Academics are challenging the control of a select group of publishing houses over scientific journals.

US judges dismiss injunctions against journals.

An increasing number of universities fuse. This is shown by a recent report of the European University Association. [in GERMAN]