Wie die Innovationsförderung des Bundes in ein bürokratisches Ungetüm verwandelt wurde.

Former EuroScience Secretary General Peter Tindemans, argues that it is good news that the European Parliament and European Council have reached a partial agreement on the contours of Horizon Europe, the next EU R&D programme.

I attended csv,conf,v4 in Portland, Oregon in May 2019. Here are a few reflections about the conference and a bit about my talk where I shared progress from the Openscapes Champions.

The Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE) is an e-journal of high-quality research with "unsurprising" findings. We publish scientifically important and carefully-executed studies with statistically insignificant or otherwise unsurprising results. Studies from all fields of Economics will be considered. SURE is an open-access journal and there are no submission charges. SURE benefits readers by: Mitigating the … Continue reading Aim and Scope →

Registered Reports emphasize the importance of the research question and the quality of methodology by conducting peer review prior to data collection. High quality protocols are then provisionally accepted for publication if the authors follow through with the registered methodology.

New International Research and Innovation Strategy launched to ensure the UK remains a global leader in science.

The first international meeting on postgraduate mental health was an important step, but much more is needed to solve academia's crisis.

Countries in southeast Asia, Africa and South America lead the way on free-to-read literature.

The country's major funding agency says the tool reduces the time it takes to find referees.

Expert advice on how to prepare a perfect funding application

"Today I speak to you of war. A war that has pitted statistician against statistician for nearly 100 years. A mathematical conflict that has recently come to the attention of the ‘normal’ people."

At PLOS ONE we like to speed up the publication process wherever we can. We like science to be out in the open, and publication of peer-reviewed research to take place without undue delays, so that others can use and build upon the findings. Aligned with our founding mission, we aim to be as fast as we can while remaining true to our publication criteria and without compromising the quality of the peer review process.

The progress of Open Access (OA) is often measured by the proportion of journals that have transitioned to OA publication models. However, a number of journals have made the opposite choice and moved from open to closed access.

Open science can lead to greater collaboration, increased confidence in findings and goodwill between researchers.

At Springer Nature we want to find the fastest and most effective route to immediate open access (OA) for all primary research. This blog describes a potential significant way to progress it.

Improving the culture surrounding mental health for postgraduates and PhD students also crucial to maintaining a healthy research system.

Alex Freeman describes how her love for storytelling propelled her from producing TV programmes to reinventing science publishing.

Colleagues, funders and institutions can support pregnant researchers in a variety of ways.

Open access has always been promoted for its reputational benefits. The OA citation advantage is one way in which advocates try to convince researchers of the benefits of publicly sharing their work. But researchers are also motivated by the need to publish in prestigious and ‘high-impact’ venues, which often precludes the possibility of open access forms of publication.

A small body of evidence suggests that when it comes to decision making, indoor air may matter more than we have realized.

A team of researchers led by RIT Professor Casey Miller discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics.

Two years after its initial entry into the marketplace, Cabell's Blacklist has matured into a carefully crafted and highly useful directory of predatory and deceptive journals.

Grant reviewers favour 'broad' words used more often by men, but proposals using those terms don't produce better research.

The dominant academic publishers are busy positioning themselves to monetize not only on content, but increasingly on data analytics and predictive products on research assessment and funding trends. Their growing investment and control over the entire knowledge production workflow, from article submissions, to metrics to reputation management and global rankings means that researchers and their institutions are increasingly locked into the publishers' "value chain".

Matthew Cobb asks who owns research. Scientists, publishers or the public?

Analysis of 30 leading institutions found that just 17% of study results had been posted online as required by EU rules.

Analysis commissioned by advocacy group documents how major companies' business strategies could help them lock up research and learning data that colleges and scholars need.

A new survey reveals the alarming extent of a practice that is universally considered unethical.

Digital continuity in the personal archives of scientists.

There’s a new publishing trend in town, says Mario Biagioli: Faking co-authors’ names. Biagioli, distinguished professor of law and science and technology studies and director of the Center for Innovation Studies at the University of California, Davis, writes that it’s “the emergence of a new form of plagiarism that reflects the new metrics-based economy of scholarly publishing.” We asked him a few questions about what he’s found, and why authors might do this.