Nature magazine publisher to merge with Springer Science
Germany's Holtzbrinck, which owns Nature publisher Macmillan Science and Education, will combine the majority of its activities with BC Partners' Springer unit.
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Anne Glover's science advisor role reinstated
The European Commission has agreed to retain the role of EU Chief Scientific Adviser, despite the departure of Anne Glover.
Dutch universities dig in for long fight over open access
Institutions 'unbending' on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume. Meanwhile, a deal that meets the universities’ requirements was made with Springer.
A one-grant limit: NIH institute puts squeeze on flush investigators
Investigators with substantial, long-term, unrestricted research support may generally hold no more than one NIGMS research grant.
Unravelling the true cost of publishing in open access
Universities must continue to monitor and track the variety of associated spending related to journal publishing and access, argues Lorraine Estelle. Many universities are forecasting that their AP…
Damaging effects of the current patent system in the US
A patent system that is so broken that almost no patented discoveries ever get used.
Academic journals: the most profitable obsolete technology in history
A large research university will pay between $3-3.5 million a year in academic subscription fees...
Pure, stupid luck
A light-hearted opinion piece about the arbitrariness of academic success.
Bad luck, bad journalism and cancer rates
How a recent "bad luck" cancer study illustrates failure of science journalism.
A generation at risk: young investigators and the future of the biomedical workforce
A generation at risk: young investigators and the future of the biomedical workforce
On the delay in young scientists obtaining NIH grants.
The transformative nature of transparency in research funding
On transparency in the process of grant review.
Measuring the effectiveness of scientific gatekeeping
Evaluative strategies that increase the mean quality of published science may also increase the risk of rejecting unconventional or outstanding work.
Crowd science user contribution patterns and their implications
On the challenges of crowdfunded science projects.
Dark Research: information content in many modern research papers is not easily discoverable online
Dark Research: information content in many modern research papers is not easily discoverable online
Comparison of the recall of commonly used online indexers.
The future and funding of science
Holiday discussion about the future of science and how it might one day be funded.
What constitutes a citable scientific work?
Four conditions that need to be satisfied for a document to be considered a citable piece of scientific work.
Is grant funding something of a lottery?
Data show scores given to grant applications by external reviewers don't correlate with what actually gets funded.
Adventures with R
A guide to the popular, free statistics and visualization software that gives scientists control of their own data analysis.
Freezing out young scientists
Share of research funding going to young scientists is declining.
Criteria for Nature Index questioned
How using absolute numbers and journal reputation can yield misleading results.
India's major science funders join open-access push
Two of India's science funding agencies are joining the push to make the results of the research they fund freely available to the public.
$60 million deal between Genentech and 23andMe
A deal being announced today with Genentech points the way for 23andMe to become a sustainable business.
Economic divide taking toll on European science
The Horizon 2020 programme threatens to siphon away the best scientists from southern Europe.
Study of massive preprint archive hints at plagiarism
A study based on arXiv shows that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others.
Comprehensive database of retractions
The former blog "Retraction Watch" will become an online, public, and freely accessible database of all retractions in every field of science.
Nature 's 10
Nature 's 10
Ten people who mattered this year.
The “Wild West” of academic publishing
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication.
Altmetric's top 100: what does it all mean?
The top 100 list of Altmetrics is fascinating for what it tells us about communication between scientists, the attention paid to science by the general public, and also for what it tells us about altmetrics themselves.
The NIPS Experiment
Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.
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