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The Commission today presented its blueprint for cloud-based services and world-class data infrastructure to ensure science, business and public services reap benefits of big data revolution.
Research council grants will escape anti-lobbying crackdown, government confirms.
There’s a replication crisis in biomedicine—and no one even knows how deep it runs.
This week, FORCE2016 is taking place in Portland, USA. The FORCE11 yearly conference is devoted to the utilisation of technological and open science advancements towards a new-age scholarship founded on easily accessible, organised and reproducible research data.
I get the feeling that some researchers regard public, post-publication peer review as a non-rigorous, non-structured and poor alternative to traditional peer review...
And how to fix them. By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus.
The UK’s higher education institutions spend more than £180m on journal subscriptions every year. We need to come together and create a better system
Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.
Psychologist Tania Lombrozo and a colleague, both moms, built an academic conference keeping in mind parents who are trying to juggle the competing demands of caregiving and professional advancement.
A ban on state-funded academics using their work to question government policy is to begin on 1 May. It’s either a cock-up or a conspiracy
Scientific journal policies, physics' head start with arXiv, and differences in the culture of the two disciplines may all play a role.
Surprising results add to fierce debate over how NIH funds graduate students
NSF geosciences advisory committee reveales the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.
In computer science faculty hiring decisions, gender is indirectly considered through its correlation with measures like productivity, study finds
Dutch push for a quantum leap in open access
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) gets poor grades from the European Union’s financial watchdog.
Dodgy results are fuelling flawed policy decisions and undermining medical advances. They could even make us lose faith in science. New Scientist investigates
The way that researchers communicate their work has not changed significantly in the last few centuries; academic publishing still relies on journal articles an…
As the White House prepares for its annual science fair, it's worth remembering that these events leave some children behind.
A technology guru and cancer survivor has been tapped to head President Obama’s ambitious 1-million-person personalized medicine study.
If Thomson Reuters can calculate Impact Factors and Eigenfactors, why can’t they deliver a simple median score?
The advantages of making scientific data available for further analysis are clear, but it could also enable the trawling of data to find significant, or preferred, results.
How can research funders ensure ‘unlucky’ applications are handled more appropriately?
Obtaining a more joined up picture of financial flows is vital as a means for researchers, institutions and others to understand and shape changes to the sociotechnical systems that underpin scholarly communication.
