Oxford University has picked its next leader — and for the first time in 785 years, it will be led by a woman: Louise Richardson.

Initiative trying to validate 50 cancer papers finds difficulty in accessing original study data.

Researchers need freedom and the flexibility that leads to serendipity, and they should be encouraged to take risks even if it leads to failure.

Facing pressure from E.U. parliamentarians and scientists, the European Commission agreed to spare the ERC from budget cuts.

The data transparency revolution is gathering pace. Last month, the WHO and the Nordic Trial Alliance released important declarations about clinical trial transparency.

Republicans in the House of Representatives seek to reshape research agenda.

Just a fraction of universities in the United Kingdom have made public the extent of their investigations into research misconduct, a survey has found - even though all have been told that they should do so.

The ETH Zurich announced it was investigating one of its professors following accusations of publication fraud. Academic misconduct is nothing new, but the Swiss have only recently taken a coherent approach to investigating it.

Switzerland’s higher education system has been ranked 2nd in the 2015 global ratings done by Universitas 21. One aspect where it stood out: international outlook. However this is the area under threat after an anti-immigration vote last year.

Movement to publicly record peer-reviewing activity gains momentum.

Die Universität Basel wird ab 1. August 2015 von einer Frau geführt. Die neue Rektorin ist eine Wirtschaftsprofessorin aus Zürich.

Russian government failed to pay for the subscription for 2014 to the amount of €890,000 (US$1 million).

Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles.

Report and survey provide insider’s view into the various components that determine a university’s global academic reputation.

eLife has partnered with Publons to help reviewers receive recognition for their work.

Frontiers, based in Lausanne, removed 31 editors from two journals after the editors complained that company staff were interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing.

Jo Johnson is smart and well-connected, but will not attend highest-level policy meetings.

Researchers Reject Nature’s Fast Track Peer Review Experiment.

President Juncker welcomes world-leading scientists, discusses role of science in competitiveness and announces new mechanism for scientific advice.

Intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn is expected.

Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature.

An ambitious [11]effort to replicate 100 research findings in psychology ended last week - and the data look worrying.

[8]F1000Workspace offers scientists a comprehensive suite of software and services to write and collaborate on papers, annotate and share references and articles, as well as easily discover and save relevant new articles.

[5]Royal Society Open Science aims to tackle the biases in traditional formats.

You're in your 60s. Should you stay in the lab, or make way for the next generation?

A crowdfunding campaign for a brain imaging study closed Monday after raising almost $80,000 toward a unique goal: the first functional magnetic resonance images of the brain on LSD.

A peer reviewer's suggestion that two female researchers find "one or two male biologists" to co-author and help them strengthen a manuscript they had written and submitted to a journal has unleashed an avalanche of disbelief and disgust on Twitter today.

The fall out from the STAP case is still being felt across Japan.

The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs..

Science 2.0 is a new approach to science that uses information-sharing and collaboration made possible by network technologies. This consultation gathers the opinions of a broad sample of interested parties from across the EU research landscape.