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Corporate Sponsors for NASA? Agency to Study Making Space for Brands

Corporate Sponsors for NASA? Agency to Study Making Space for Brands

In an era of flat budgets for the agency, Jim Bridenstine has started talking about corporate sponsorships for NASA missions.

Role Models Tell Girls That STEM’s for Them in New Campaign

Role Models Tell Girls That STEM’s for Them in New Campaign

The Ad Council - along with G.E., Google, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon - is trying to encourage girls ages 11 to 15 to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math.

Bell Burnell: Physics Star Gives Away GBP2.3M Prize

Bell Burnell: Physics Star Gives Away GBP2.3M Prize

One of the UK's leading female astronomers is to donate her GBP2.3M winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers.

Documentary Puts Lens on the Open-Access Movement Upending Scientific Publishing

Documentary Puts Lens on the Open-Access Movement Upending Scientific Publishing

Paywall, a documentary about the open-access movement, makes its debut and will be available online.

Radical Open-Access Plan Could Spell End to Journal Subscriptions

Radical Open-Access Plan Could Spell End to Journal Subscriptions

Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published.

Science Without Publication Paywalls: cOAlition S for the Realisation of Full and Immediate Open Access

Science Without Publication Paywalls: cOAlition S for the Realisation of Full and Immediate Open Access

In this Perspective, a group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, announce plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies' research funding.

cOAlition S: An Initiative to Make Full and Immediate Open Access to Research Publications a Reality

cOAlition S: An Initiative to Make Full and Immediate Open Access to Research Publications a Reality

The 11 national research funding organisations that form cOAlition S have agreed to implement the 10 principles of Plan S in a coordinated way, together with the European Commission including the ERC. Other research funders from across the world, both public and private, are invited to join cOAlition S.

Serbia Adopts National Open Science Policy

Serbia Adopts National Open Science Policy

The Serbian Government has adopted a national policy mandating open access (OA) to all publications resulting from publicly-funded research in Serbia. The policy, titled the Open Science Platform, was introduced by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MESTD), the main funder for research in Serbia, in July 2018. EIFL welcomes the adoption of the policy, which makes a major contribution to improving visibility and discoverability of Serbian research outputs.

Springer Nature Collaborates with IBM Watson Health to Create Deeper Insights from Cutting Edge Scientific and Medical Research

Springer Nature Collaborates with IBM Watson Health to Create Deeper Insights from Cutting Edge Scientific and Medical Research

Springer Nature announced a collaboration with Watson Health to expand and enhance the integration of valuable genomics.

How Many Wikipedia References Are Available to Read? We Measured the Proportion of Open Access Sources Across Languages and Topics

How Many Wikipedia References Are Available to Read? We Measured the Proportion of Open Access Sources Across Languages and Topics

When following a link to the official version of a scholarly article, Wikipedia readers are twice as likely to hit a paywall than one they can freely read.

Chief of Europe's 1-Billion EUR Brain Project Steps Down

Chief of Europe's 1-Billion EUR Brain Project Steps Down

Chris Ebell, who became director of the initiative in 2015, leaves after differences of opinion with the project’s lead institution.

Top Geneticist Loses 3.5-Million GBP Grant in First Test of Landmark Bullying Policy

Top Geneticist Loses 3.5-Million GBP Grant in First Test of Landmark Bullying Policy

The Wellcome Trust pulled the grant from Nazneen Rahman, who worked at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.

Harassment Charges: Injustice Done?

Harassment Charges: Injustice Done?

Colleagues urge UCI to acknowledge the possibility that its sanctions against Professor Ayala were enacted in haste and to reopen the case and investigate the matter more thoroughly.