EU research chief Jean-Eric Paquet lays plans to refocus staff on policy goals, efficiency and cooperation with other parts of the Commission.

Harvard Library and the MIT Libraries are in broad support of Plan S and its goals while also recomending certain adjustments to the implementation details.

Lab gloves, fly food and charter planes - UK research institutes are preparing for a possible snap departure from the European Union in just 10 weeks.

Alyson Fox, the Director of Grants at Wellcome, explains why they're changing their policy on transferring grants to ensure research can thrive in the UK, EU and beyond.

Today, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration submitted its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for publication.

Proposals to fight malaria by "driving" genes that slow its spread through mosquitoes is a high-risk, high-reward technology that presents a challenge to science journalists, according to a new report aimed at stimulating a fruitful, realistic public discussion of "post-normal" science and technology.

Der Mobbingfall an der ETH Zürich veranlasst den neuen Präsidenten Joël Mesot zu einer Massnahme.

In a recent documentary, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist doubled down on comments he made a decade ago, then apologized for, regarding race, genetics and intelligence.

Following in the footsteps of linguistics journal Lingua, the editorial board of the Elsevier-owned Journal of Informetrics has resigned and launched a rival journal that will be free for all to read.

Today the entire editorial board of Informetrics, a major publication in the field of Scientometrics and Informetrics, has unanimously resigned their position. In the future they will dedicate their time to a new full open access journal: Quantitative Science Studies.

An analysis concluded that earth's oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.

A second wave of closures looms as the government funding fight barrels towards a record-breaking fourth week.

Printer closures and paper shortages create scheduling headaches for academic authors and staff at university presses.

Agencies including the National Science Foundation are without funding

Data for age profile of academic workforces across the continent show wide variation between countries. 

Walter Ricciardi, the head of Italy's national health research organisation, says the populist government has 'difficulty interacting with science'.

Research community welcomes meteorologist as Trump's new science adviser, after two years without one, but the office he will run is currently closed.

Space missions can continue to collect data, but thousands of federal researchers are forced to stay home without pay.

The integration of AIRA - Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant - into Frontiers' digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling.

BMC Biology's 'portable peer review' policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections.

Senate confirms meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Grant checks from NSF and other funders won't go out. Meetings on grant applications won't take place. Impact will grow with length of standoff. Trump threat on border with Mexico alarms some Texas campuses.

But it will likely lack the broad powers favored by supporters of a Green New Deal.

The University of California is re-negotiating its systemwide licenses with some of the world's largest scholarly journal publishers, including Elsevier, to provide additional open access options for UC authors. In these negotiations, the UC is seeking a single, integrated contract with each publisher that covers both the university's subscriptions and open access publishing of UC research in their journals - what are often known as "publish and read" agreements.

The Max Planck Society is going to discontinue their Elsevier subscription. By doing so the Society joins nearly 200 universities and research institutions in Germany who have already cancelled their agreements with Elsevier.

As some editors are moving to 'flip' their journal the publishing giant offers considerable compensations to change their minds.

CWTS announces the launch of the new course called "Responsible Metrics for Research Evaluation".

Elsevier,  the information analytics business specializing in science and health, has acquired Science-Metrix Inc., a research evaluation firm that provides science research evaluation and analytics to assess science and technology activities