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'My question for those who say it's too tight a time scale,' says Plan S task force co-chair David Sweeney, 'is how long do you want?'

Closed and proprietary infrastructures limit the accessibility of research, often putting paywalls in front of scientific knowledge. But they also severely limit reuse, preventing other tools from building on top of their software, data, and content. The presentation demonstrates how open infrastructures can help us move beyond this issue and create an ecosystem that is community-driven and community-owned.

Deceptive publishing (aka predatory publishing) has been a growing problem for years now. What do we know about it? How should we respond?

The next European science and research funding programme, known as Horizon Europe, is designed to connect people with the achievements financed by their tax money, and to fix problems with innovation funding, according to Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation.

The eLife Early-Career Advisory Group open applications for researchers who wish to join the second edition of the community advocacy programme.

Hypothesis has reached a remarkable new milestone: five million annotations. 

According to 3M's State of Science Index, 45% of people said they only believe science that aligns with their personal beliefs.

We need paid leave so young researchers can start families without abandoning STEM careers.

Looking beyond a much used and abused measure would make science harder, but better.

Last Friday, hundreds of thousands of students in the United States and around the world were out in the streets rather than in their classrooms, demanding that our political leaders address the climate crisis with the urgency and focused action that the science so clearly demands.

Due a to a misconfigured server, a researcher found a constant stream of Elsevier users' passwords.

The MIT community is invited to comment on ways to increase sharing of research, data, software, and more.

Robert P. Crease harks back to the shapers of our scientific infrastructure and what they can tell us about how to handle the threat we now face.

How can academic libraries "vote with their dollars"?

There is a wealth of advice and 'how to' guides available to academics on the subject of how research can have an impact on policy and practice. In this post Kathryn Oliver and Paul Cairney assess the value of this literature, arguing that unless researchers seek to situate research impact within processes of policymaking and academic knowledge production, this advice can ultimately reinforce current inequalities in research impact.

Financial and social burdens of academic travel add an additional barrier to participation in research. If academia wants to address issues of diversity and equity in research, it must first acknowledge the effects of academic travel culture.

An Open Letter to Elsevier and the Editorial Boards of Elsevier Journal

Dr. Uhlenbeck helped pioneer geometric analysis, developing techniques now commonly used by many mathematicians.

Libraries provide vital digital services to their host institutions. If these services carry clear library identity branding, it strengthens the library's position in the university and enables it to secure the budget and political capital necessary to do its work.

The committee did not, however, explicitly recommend a moratorium on germline editing for reproduction, an issue that has divided genome editing experts.

The World Health Organization should also step up governance of human genome-editing research.

The two technical universities have teamed up to offer a new Master’s program that will train cyber security engineers. The program will kick off in the 2019–20 school year.

Sharing research data can cause an efficiency revenue for the scientific community. However, this is not a given in all modeled scenarios. 

Study shows that peer review of grant applications at the SNSF may be prone to biases stemming from different applicant and reviewer characteristics. Based on this study, the SNSF abandoned nomination of reviewers by applicants, and made members of panels aware of the other systematic differences in scores.

Young people will be greatly impacted by the effects of climate change, so it is critical that their voices are heard.

Der Nationalfonds ist der wichtigste Förderer hiesiger Forschung.

The ETH Zurich Executive Board is submitting a request to the ETH Board for the dismissal of a professor, while simultaneously launching a package of measures to improve the quality of leadership and supervision at ETH.

The 2010 reform of the Italian university system introduced the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) as a requirement for applying to permanent professor positions. Since the CVs of the 59149 candidates and the results of their assessments have been made publicly available, the ASN constitutes an opportunity to perform analyses about a nation-wide evaluation process.

The mental health crisis extends into the ways counseling and psychological services are provided and into the intrinsic nature of graduate education.

Young people are going on a climate strike and researchers are supporting their cause. Reto Knutti discusses the issues.