Study would seek to identify effects of bias and how to promote equity.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has adopted a randomised process for whittling down the applications which were already deemed strong enough to be considered for funding.

Microsoft Excel: 1 - Human Genetics: 0.

COPIM, OPERAS-P and open-access.network aim at gaining a better understanding of the national-specific issues surrounding collective funding for OA books from a library perspective.

While a growing awareness of racial disparities has resulted in a groundswell of support for inclusivity in scholarly publishing, the resulting initiatives would be more effective if professional associations were able to provide training materials to help transform organizational cultures.

A legal journal has retracted a 2019 article on the facial genetics of ethnic minorities in China for ethics violations. Springer Nature is investigating more than two dozen other articles for similar concerns.

The US National Science Foundation's new focus on computer science could also put already-under-represented groups at a disadvantage, critics say.

This coronavirus is here for the long haul - here's what scientists predict for the next months and years.

Preprint servers have existed for decades, but the fight against the coronavirus has seen their use soar. They're changing how science is done-but need important guardrails.

To help make the arXiv more accessible, a free, open pipeline on Kaggle to the machine-readable arXiv dataset: a repository of 1.7 million articles, with relevant features such as article titles, authors, categories, abstracts, full text PDFs, and more is made available.

Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research finds

The SNSF has adopted the DORA recommendations in its career funding schemes and adapted some other criteria. This will make the selection process even fairer and more inclusive of re-searchers with diverse career paths.