University tells Elsevier 'no deal'
In fight over journal pricing, University of Konstanz ends license negotiations with publisher
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'Philanthropy Is no substitute for government funding'
There has been an upsurge in philanthropy for scientific research by America's billionaires. Still, in size and scope, philanthropy pales in comparison to public financing for science.
In numbers we trust?
Scientists go to great lengths to ensure that data are collected and analysed properly, so why do they apply different standards to data about the number of times research papers have been cited and viewed?
Die offene Wissenschaft und ihre Freunde
Open Access, Open Science, Science 2.0 - die Titel, unter denen vom Internet eine Beschleunigung des Erkenntnisgewinns erwartet wird, sind vielfältig. Doch wem nützen die entsprechenden Techniken?
Policies to increase the social value of science and the scientist satisfaction
An exploratory survey among Harvard bioscientists
Biomedical research's unpaid debt
NIH's initiative to support and implement fairer competition for minority students is a welcome step to redress the exploitation of African Americans by science.
Publikation von TA-Swiss
Die interdisziplinäre Studie zeigt auf, welche Folgen damit verbunden sind, z.B. im Hinblick auf die Persönlichkeitsrechte, den Datenschutz oder den Umgang von Betroffenen mit Krankheitsrisiken.
Open science? Try good science
Is Open Science already here? Not exactly. Open Science is more than a subset of projects that make data available or sharing of software tools, often because they received specific funding to do so.
A quite insightful April's fool joke by PLOS founder Michael Eisen
"I co-founded the PLOS in 2002 because I believed deeply that the open access publishing model PLOS espoused and has come to dominate was good for science, scientists and the public."
An automatic paper generator
An automatic paper generator
SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations.
Post publication peer review
New scientists have grown up commenting on their friends pictures, their silly comments on Facebook and their favorite YouTube videos. Will this practice carry over into their scientific publishing?
How the Wellcome Trust spends its money
How the Wellcome Trust spends its money
The Wellcome Trust has released new data and infographics to show where it spends out money.
Bundesrat Johann Schneider-Ammann reist für Wirtschafts- und Wissenschaftsmission nach Brasilien
Bundesrat Johann Schneider-Ammann reist für Wirtschafts- und Wissenschaftsmission nach Brasilien
Ziele des Besuchs sind die Intensivierung der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen sowie die Stärkung des wissenschaftlichen Austauschs mit der Eröffnung des ersten swissnex in Lateinamerika.
French universities boycott journals
French universities boycott journals
For all the talk that the publishers of major journals such as Science, Nature and the Lancet are charging too much for their wares, it seems a limit has been reached.
Otto-Bayer-Preis 2014 geht an Frédéric Merkt
Forscher der ETH Zürich wird für herausragende Beiträge auf dem Gebiet der Molekülspektroskopie geehrt
Why I don't care about Open Access to research and why you should
Should paywalls stand between the taxpaying public and publicly funded research? Congress recently decided that the answer should be "no."
Is pressure on postdocs leading to 'massaged' research?
Merciless competition for jobs and funds pushes some researchers to spin data in the eternal quest for success
Standard evaluation protocol 2015-2021
Standard evaluation protocol 2015-2021
Dutch universities will value quality above quantity in publications.
Shaping science policy in Europe
Shaping science policy in Europe
For the first time, the scientific community acted collectively and across disciplinary or national boundaries as a political actor for the sake of a better science policy for Europe.
Swiss science diplomacy
Switzerland utilizes the swissnex and embassy science sections to support science, technology, and innovation networks for its scientific and industrial competitiveness.
Fake papers a symptom of more serious problems in academia
One of the biggest stories in academia recently was the retraction of more than 120 papers by well-known journal publishers Springer and the IEEE.
Cooperative Data Publishing, Management and Discovery
Cooperative Data Publishing, Management and Discovery
Present redistribution of public knowledge offers only the illusion of transparency. For data to truly be free, librarians must look towards their audience as digital collaborators, rather than simply end users.
Budget cuts bite at NIH and NSF
The NIH awarded 750 fewer new research grants in 2013 compared with 2012, an 8.3% drop. The 2013 sequestration also hit the US NSF, which awarded 690 fewer grants.
Public attitudes to science 2014
Public Attitudes to Science (PAS) 2014 is the fifth in a series of studies looking at attitudes to science, scientists and science policy among the UK public.
Budget sees boosts for data science, graphene and cell therapy
George Osborne continued his trend of throwing small crumbs of funding to science and technology while at the same time failing to announce either long-term support for basic science or a strategy to develop UK industrial research
RCUK Impact Report 2013
This reports show that the UK research base is not only at the cutting edge of scientific and academic discovery, but also is doing more to translate this into practical wider benefits. This helps to keep us ahead in the global race.
The parable of Google flu: traps in big data analysis
In February 2013, Google Flu Trends (GFT) made headlines but not for a reason that Google executives or the creators of the flu tracking system would have hoped.
The exploitative economics of academic publishing
Much of research in the US is inaccessible not only to the public, but also to other scientists. Fortunately, cheap open-access alternatives are not only possible, but already beginning to take root
Brain-mapping projects to join forces
US and European research programmes will begin coordinating research
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