A report of the President’s Science and Technology Advisory Council.

When making decisions about funding and jobs the scientific community should recognise that most of the tools used to evaluate scientific excellence are biased in favour of established disciplines and against interdisciplinary research.

As appeals for public access of research data continue to proliferate, many scholarly publishers-alongside funders, institutions, and libraries-are expanding their role to address this need.

Raw data from Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan's annual Author Insights survey.

Celebrating Open Access Week 2014 affords an opportunity to study and promote all aspects of ‘Open.’

“When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it..."

New ways to help the Science Lab community build tools and solve problems together.

Intransparenz bei den Bibliotheksausgaben von Schweizer Hochschulen

A survey requested by the European Commission.

14th November 2014, London

October 24-26, London

November 12-14, EMBL Heidelberg

The University of Leeds is seeking to recruit up to 250 exceptional early career academics to tenure track equivalent Academic Fellowships over the next three years.

Sciencestarter is the first German crowdfunding platform for science projects.

How women and men fare in doctoral studies around the world.

Comparing Intra-EU and U.S. Mobility

This paper provides useful insights for the design of networks that promote research productivity. Overall, dense networks negatively affect the creation of new knowledge. In addition, the analysis shows that a division of labor in academia, in the sense of interdisciplinary research, increases the productivity of researchers. It is also found that the position in a network is critical. Researchers who are central tend to create more knowledge.

The number of funded applications per year was found to correlate well with total annual citation impact, suggesting that improving funding success rates by reducing the size of awards may be an efficient funding strategy to optimize the scientific impact of research program portfolios.

Instrumentenkasten mit Beispiele aus der Praxis für die Praxis zu den Forschungsorientierten Gleichstellungsstandards der DFG.

People seeking non-academic jobs may need to try something unexpected to be noticed, says Peter Fiske.

Science crowdfunding platform reaches $1 million after two years.

Exploring the topic together with ERC grantees and other researchers, with representatives from funding bodies, universities and other research performers, with publishers, policy makers and other interested parties.

On the state of the postdoc — the staple of the science scholar's life cycle that's now gaining steam in the humanities.

eLife has released its 2013 financials, which give an indication of what a premier OA journal article costs to produce.

Dan Huttenlocher, dean of the Cornell Tech Campus, shares what it's like building an innovation center.

Did you ever wonder why it says QWERTY up on the left of your keyboard? And what does it have to do with academic publishing?

Giant academic social networks have taken off to a degree that no one expected even a few years ago. A Nature survey explores why.

An overview on how to measure influence in research.

A palaeontologist, an astronomer, a chemist - into the pantheon of children's toys stride three new Lego characters. Not so surprising. Except the scientists are all female.

Where do students go to study? Where do they come from?