Swiss funding agency banned applicant-nominated referees after a 2016 study found evidence of bias. Those results are now being made public.

For years, scientists have declared P values of less than 0.05 to be "statistically significant." Now statisticians are saying the cutoff needs to go.

According to the latest data from the European University Association (EUA), only few higher education institutions have policies on research data management in place. 

The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held at University of Geneva in June 19th-21st 2019. The main theme of this edition is: Open Science - its impact and potential as a driver for radical change.

His 15-year quest to understand how brain cells communicate provided the underlying science for many antipsychotic drugs.

Society's new antiharassment policy doesn't include mechanisms for protecting survivors of past abuse if harasser attends meeting.

A new momentum is emerging in the dissemination of scientific knowledge worldwide.  The GLOALL carries a vision to promote the development of multilingual scholarly communication standards, products and services.

Fourteen universities from five European countries started a collaboration to set up University Journals as an alternative to the current journal system that requires authors to transfer their copyright or charges article processing charges.

"Without bold and focused action, their future is in critical danger. There is no time to wait until they are in power," scientists say.

The project included more than 200 researchers around the world, about 40 of them women, including Dr. Bouman.

Survey finds that 40% of research-intensive universities mention the controversial metric in review documents - despite efforts to dampen its influence.

The decision could derail multi-million-dollar research projects such as the Sirius synchrotron.

The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings assess universities against the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Calibrated indicators are used to provide comprehensive and balanced comparisons across three broad areas: research, outreach, and stewardship. This first edition includes more than 450 universities from 76 countries.

DOI metadata provenance is describing the history of a particular DOI metadata record, i.e. what changes were made when and by whom. This information is now stored and provided via an API for all DOI registrations since March 10, 2019. 

Network of eight radio telescopes around the world records revolutionary image.

The effort wouldn't have succeeded without Katie Bouman, who developed a crucial algorithm and helped devise imaging methods.

Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll-access journals open access, taking for granted that existing open access journals are Plan S-compliant. This question was examined using Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) metadata. The conclusion was that a large majority of open access journals are not Plan S-compliant, and that it is small publishers in the SSH that will face the largest challenge with becoming compliant. 

Shell, citing its positions on climate change, quits an industry trade group. But critics say the oil giant should leave other trade groups as well. Shell said it used four markers in evaluating its trade group memberships: support for the Paris climate agreement, support for carbon taxes, policies encouraging low-carbon technologies and a continuing role for natural gas, which now makes up more than half of Shell’s business.

A policy review follows months of turmoil at the cancer center, which pledged an overhaul, including new rules on public disclosure and limits on outside profits.

YS Chi claims publisher's shift to recognise research quality over quantity left a void that has been filled by others happy to publish insubstantial work

The Affordable College Textbook Act aims to make higher education more affordable by expanding the use and awareness of open educational resources.

The controversial panel lasted just a little over a week.

Sensitive research and personal data is obtained in test cyber-attacks on UK universities.

Survey finds that European institutions have open access policies in place - but far fewer have specific targets systems to check their progress.

Community-developed standards, such as those for the identification, citation and reporting of data, underpin reproducible and reusable research, aid scholarly publishing, and drive both the discovery and the evolution of scientific practice.

Atmospheric scientist Angie Pendergrass spoke to Nature about a newly-published guide to broadening participation in conferences.

The Federal Trade Commission accused Omics International, a publisher in India, of operating hundreds of fake research journals with deceptive business practices.

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., will ask its members this month to change the organization’s bylaws to allow proven sexual harassers and those guilty of other misconduct to be ejected from their ranks.

A new report highlights gross inequities in health coverage for grad students - and a lack of access to mental-health resources more generally.

American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.