Much of research in the US is inaccessible not only to the public, but also to other scientists. Fortunately, cheap open-access alternatives are not only possible, but already beginning to take root

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Our PhD employment problem is very simply described: there's a mismatch between the number of graduate students earning doctorates each year and the number of tenure-track faculty positions available to them. There are too few tenure-track jobs for the PhD recipients who are qualified to compete for them.

Peer review and the tyranny that must be broken.

Reportage au Media Lab du MIT

A platform comparing research journal's performance aiming to make the peer review process more efficient.

Portal of the U.S. Government’s open data.

A movement exploring the absence of Black Professors in UK higher education institutions.

The academic torrents network is built for researchers, by researchers. Its distributed peer-to-peer library system automatically replicates your datasets on many servers, so you don't have to worry about managing your own servers or file availability. Everyone who has data becomes a mirror for those data so the system is fault-tolerant.

In a 7 mins talk, Adam Savage walks through two examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple methods anyone could have followed: the calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and the measurement of the speed of light in 1849.

The Finch Report , the Government's acceptance of its key recommendations, the new RCUK policies on open access, and the consultation by the Funding Councils on possible open access requirements for material to be submitted to the REF expected in 2020, have changed the open access landscape in the UK.

Uncovering the hidden contradictions behind a science folk hero.

re3data.org presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions. re3data.org aims to promote a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data.

An endocrinologist who resigned from the University of Tokyo in March 2012 amid an investigation that concluded 43 of his papers should be retracted, has retracted five more papers. The newest is in this week's Nature.

The academic job market is structured in many respects like a drug gang, with an expanding mass of outsiders and a shrinking core of insiders.

How do we support basic curiosity-driven research and maintain our position as the global leader in innovation and technology at a time of rapidly dwindling government funds?

An individual tool to help you explore career possibilities and set goals to follow the career path that fits you best.

A set of facts and figures on Open Access.

Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein rejects any metaphor that likens the goal of science to completing a puzzle, peeling an onion, or peeking beneath the surface to view an iceberg in its entirety. Such comparisons suggest a future in which all of our questions will be answered.

People are denied access to research hidden behind paywalls every day. This problem is invisible, but it slows innovation, kills curiosity and harms patients. This is an indictment of the current system.

Today we're launching Scholar Library, your personal collection of articles in Scholar. You can save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search & ranking to quickly find just the one you want - at any time and from anywhere.

Sciencescape is a tool for discovering and organizing research you care about.

A video showing the age distribution of NIH Principal Investigators and Medical School faculty.

Ich bin ein Wissenschaftler, holt mich hier raus: Die Website howtoleaveacademia.com hilft beim Ausstieg.

EPSRC Engineering fellowships were under-subscribed and so we should all be preparing our applications. But just because a theme is under-subcribed doesn't mean that you've got a better chance of getting funded.

Ca. 50 organisations involved with life science in the UK agreed to develop a Concordat that sets out how they will be more open about the ways in which they use animals in scientific, medical or veterinary research in the UK.

By the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS), in cooperation with the Switzerland’s higher education institutions.

Sharing data is critical to scientific progress, but has been hampered by traditional research practices-our approach is to invite willing participants to publicly share their personal data for the greater good.