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Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate

Horizons should stimulate debate about research and science policy, writes Matthias Egger, the President of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

What is the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and why do we need it? Learn more from the team behind it (CDL, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science) in this interview with Alice Meadows.

OASPA webinar of 2019: invitation to speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access.

Researchers from racial and ethnic groups that are under-represented in US geoscience are the least likely to be offered opportunities to speak at the field's biggest meeting.

Crowd-based prediction markets have even been shown to outperform intelligence analysts.

Flying closer than any other mission, spacecraft set to unravel the sun's mysteries

It's a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time. Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late 1950s and political leaders have been discussing it for nearly as long. In 1961, Alvin Weinberg, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called carbon dioxide one of the "big problems"

Evaluation reforms will go round in circles without conceptual clarity, warns Anna Hatch.

The company's AWS unit will allow customers to tap quantum machines from three startups.

An EPFL Bachelor's student has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for 100 years.

Figures show 11,000 have left UK universities in three years since referendum.

Beijing's pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.

A group of leading publishers is announcing a major new service to plug leakage, improve discovery and access, fight piracy, compete with ResearchGate, and position their platform for the OA ecosystem.

Mosaic, Wellcome's digital platform for long-form journalism, is closing on 10 December 2019.

Being able to find, assess and place new research within a field of knowledge, is integral to any research project.

Growing evidence suggests that the evaluation of researchers’ careers on the basis of narrow definitions of excellence is restricting diversity in academia, both in the development of its labour force and its approaches to address societal challenges.

What's it like to be work in scholarly communications as a person with a disability - physical or mental?

The report describing the creation of the world’s first gene-edited babies creates an ethical quandary for scientific journals.

Concerns about the threat from the Global North to Latin America's exemplary tradition of open access publishing are understandable but ultimately misplaced.

Quarterly updates on scientific integrity in the US nearly three years into the Trump administration.

Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions - a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.

Since India lost contact with the spacecraft in September, the precise location of its crash has been a mystery.

Most agencies claim a 100 per cent pass rate with zero risk of being found out. New laws are being drafted to target contract cheating in Australia.

The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions.

CORE Discovery helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher's website. It is backed by our huge dataset of millions of full text open…

The market model in higher education has created an intellectual precariat who are right to fight back.

Lessons in leadership from outside the laboratory.

A recent opinion paper by Richard Poynder offers analysis and prognostication with regard to the current state and future prospects of the open access movement.

Can journals help to “protect” the scientific community and the public from unscrupulous reanalysis of data?