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The European Union's top research official telegraphed a message to the UK's Brexit negotiators: When it comes to a post-Brexit deal on research cooperation, there can be "no cherry picking."
Robert van der Vooren conducted a study commissioned by the National Library of Sweden about new ways of distributing publisher contract costs to Bibsam Consortium participants. The study is intended to be a basis when the Bibsam Consortium makes cost distribution future proof for full open access publishing.
Taylor & Francis has acquired open research publisher F1000 Research from its founder Vitek Tracz. The acquisition sum was not disclosed.
The European Union's new innovation chief, Mariya Gabriel, wants to "revitalise" efforts to create a real single market for research, education and innovation, bridging the performance gap between eastern and western Europe.
A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions - if humanity decides to unleash it.
Springer Nature and Max Planck Digial Library on behalf of Projekt DEAL announce that the formal contract for the world’s largest transformative Open Access (OA) agreement to date has been signed.
If words make worlds, then we urgently need to tell a new story about the climate crisis. Here is one vision of what it could look and feel like to radically, collectively take action.
Predatory publishers' papers - long feared to contaminate the literature - may have little research impact.
Ivy Anderson and Jeff MacKie-Mason, who co-chair the team overseeing UC's publisher negotiations strategy, have provided the following response to a recent open letter in which a number of commercial and society journal publishers voiced their opposition to a policy, rumored to be under discussion by the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, that would require federally funded research be made freely available to the public immediately upon publication, rather than within 12 months as current policy stipulates. The University of California believes the public should have access to publicly-funded research, freely and immediately upon publication. We are deeply …
After two heart attacks in three years, an associate professor discusses the challenges of faculty life.
Academy commission's probe of domestic journals causes "conflict and tension".
Study suggests that 'predatory' spam targeted specifically at scholars costs universities $1.1 billion annually.
For years, scientists poured their hearts into work to develop vaccines. And, for years, they saw promising work smash up against unscalable walls.
The UK prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings wants scientific approaches to inform government - but researchers worry his view is simplistic.
A tool that focuses on papers - not researcher behaviour - can help readers, editors and institutions assess which publications to trust.
It's hard to know just how many scientists have turned to activism in the last few years. But many researchers say they've noticed a change.
Draft guidance for Wellcome-funded organisations on how to implement the core principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
The structural transition wrought by the internet continues to transform the journal-centric model of scholarly publishing into a researcher-centric model of scholarly communication. Success requires engagement with researcher identity, which is a struggle even for most of the largest publishing.
Working alongside physicists made him a better science communicator, says Ken Kosik, and helped him to clarify knowledge gaps in his own field.
The many bottlenecks that the commercial monopoly on research information has imposed are stimulating new strategies.
Science chats with two experts about what future paleontologists-or perhaps even visiting aliens-might find.
Protect time for deep thinking - it is crucial for productivity in a world of constant interaction, urges Heidi Rehm.
Researchers are at the very heart of the EOSC. So, what do our researchers say one year after the launch of the initiative? How do they think will they benefit from the EOSC? What are and what can be their roles? Let's see what physicist Toma Susi has to say.
Widely expected Plan S-style order hailed as 'major boost' to global movement
In a stinging rebuke of the Trump administration’s handling of science, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advisory panel has found major shortcomings in the agency’s pursuit of key regulatory rollbacks.
Artificial intelligence used to carry out automated, targeted hacking is set to be one of the major threats to look out for in 2020, according to a cybersecurity expert.
Fifty percent of the open access journals listed in DOAJ in 2019 are published in Europe, and the United Kingdom is the biggest publisher of OA journals in DOAJ.
