As part of its update of EU copyright rules, the European Commission today proposed a copyright exception that would permit researchers to analyse on a large scale scientific data to which they have lawful access.

The Lasker Awards, among the most respected prizes in medicine, will go to six researchers who made major discoveries in physiology and virology, and to a scientist who has tirelessly promoted science education.

Scientific cooperation between the UK and Russia was boosted in August this year when Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to extend the UK-Russia Intergovernmental Agreement on Science and Technology cooperation for another 10 years.

The Council of the EU looks set to ask the European Research Council to consider setting up a new category of grants to help student researchers establish their careers.

'Reproducibility editor' Victoria Stodden explains the growing movement to make code and data available to others

Internal sugar industry documents suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.

September 2016 marks the first year anniversary of the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. To celebrate, we thought we'd share some statistics about the platform and its growth.

Spreadsheets are playing havoc with scientists

Internal analysis finds women earn 10.5 per cent less than men of similar experience and research productivity

‘SmartFigures Lab’ is a prototype online publishing website with enhanced data presentation capabilities. The site results from the integration of SmartFigures, an open source application of the EMBO SourceData platform, with Wiley’s Content Enrichment Framework and research & development environment.

New study looks at what happened when a university made its publications publicly available through an institutional repository

Idea is one of several ways to speed the peer review process, although some think it will annoy academics

Figshare announced a new partnership with Royal Society to increase research data discoverability.

Etalia, Simiary and Writefull, three companies aiming to disrupt the academic space, are the latest recipients of the Catalyst Grant award for innovative startups.

Papers accepted for publication in Nature and an initial 12 other Nature titles will be required to include information on whether and how others can access the underlying data.

Likelihood of stopgap spending measure grows.

South Korea and Japan lead Reuters’ Asia innovation ranking

A recent statement from Carlos Moedas told us that “as of the Work Programme 2017, the current Open Research Data Pilot will be extended to cover all thematic areas of Horizon 2020, making open research data the default setting. This means that as of January 1st 2017, all funded proposals will need to make all of the data and digital research outputs they generate openly available.

Welfare state expert Peter Taylor-Gooby cheerfully admits his research has had no real-world influence – but hopes a book might.

Congress returns in early September from a 7-week summer break with a lengthy list of unfinished business, some of great interest to the U.S. research community—and just a few weeks to tackle it.

This week, the first of 1500 researchers and support staff begin moving into the largest biomedical research building in Europe, the £650 million Francis Crick Institute in London.

Can architecture spur creativity? Universities are investing in big,high-tech buildings in the hope of evoking big, high-tech thinking.

In France, the final text of a new law on Open Access has been adopted on June 29, 2016.

One of the pioneers in developing fluorescent proteins for biological studies was 64 years old.

A few hours ago, 50 months after Elsevier submitted a patent application for an “Online peer review system and method” the patent was awarded to the company.

Science has become a lot bigger and faster. Join us now to make it better @ the congress on 26 / 27 january 2017, Berne.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's free, not-for-profit preprint service bioRxiv has received generous additional financial support.

The new director of the federal office that guards against misconduct in U.S.-funded biomedical research is aiming to shake things up—but is also encountering rough waters. Kathryn Partin, who took the helm of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in December 2015, has launched a top-to-bottom review of the office, which has been criticized for moving too slowly and meting out sanctions that lack teeth.

LinkedIn co-founder, a Nobel laureate and more than 10 university presidents among high-profile speakers at Times Higher Education’s flagship event.

UUK in search for ‘politically achievable’ solution given that end to free movement is ‘likely’