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Making It Easier to Discover Datasets

Making It Easier to Discover Datasets

There are many thousands of data repositories on the web, providing access to millions of datasets. To enable easy access to this data, Google launched Dataset Search.

Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability

Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability

Data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal.

Elsevier leads the business the internet could not kill

Elsevier leads the business the internet could not kill

The web had been created to bring academics together; now it offered them a way of sharing their research online for free.

British MPs warn over science funding

British MPs warn over science funding

Britain is falling behind competitors in research and development investment and the government will be putting jobs at risk if it does not protect science funding in the Spending Review.

The (very precise) future of medicine

The (very precise) future of medicine

The Welcome trust has collaborated with the government on several big capital projects, including Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire and the new Francis Crick Institute laboratories.