Publications such as Nature and Science have policies that clash with the global health charity's open-access mandate.

Many researchers also object to proposed higher-education reforms, says survey.

Gary McDowell, Misty Heggeness and colleagues present census data showing how the biomedical workforce is fundamentally different to those of past generations – academia should study the trends, and adapt.

Young scientists angry at budget cuts say they have been denied permanent jobs.

Eight ways labs benefit from the popular workplace messaging tool.

Libraries pursue alternative delivery routes after licence negotiations break down.

Political compromise settles immigration row that could have severed Swiss–EU research agreements.

Recommendation engine Instrumentl aims to speed grant searching.

Poor experimental design and statistical analysis could contribute to widespread problems in reproducing preclinical animal experiments.

Ten people who mattered this year.

The University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute are vying for lucrative rights to the gene-editing system.

The trend of turning universities into businesses is limiting research freedoms in traditionally liberal institutes in northern Europe.

If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.

Proposal would keep funding flat for most research agencies, but cuts could come early next year.

Elsevier’s CiteScore uses a larger database — and provides different results for the quality of journals.

The government will accept applications for the job until 27 January 2017. It is not yet clear how large the adviser’s staff will be, or how the post will be funded.

Economic woes wrought by globalization are only part of the cause.