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The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc), the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), and the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) jointly welcome the revised implementation guidance for Plan S.
Nobel prize winner warns UK science will suffer unless it can gain access to Horizon Europe
"Our focus has to shift from quantity to quality…we must abandon the assumption that a passive apprenticeship system works" Dr Finkel calls for formal action in Nature journal to improve better research practices. Nature published an article by Dr Finkel on 19 February 2019 on how to move research from quantity to
In the aftermath of the European elections, the calculators are starting to come out in labs and universities around Europe that depend on the EU for research funding: Will it mean more or less money for science and technology? The answer so far: fuzzy maths.
Asked by THE why taxpayers should not be able to immediately see the results of research they financed, Kelvin Droegemeier answered: 'They maybe should'
Funders behind the policy revise rules after major consultation.
Nature asked nine leading Europeans to pick their top priority for science at this pivotal point. Love, money, and trust got the most votes.
The Second EUA Big Deals Survey Report is an updated mapping of major scholarly publishing contracts in Europe. Conducted in 2017-2018, the report gathers data from 31 consortia covering an unprecedented 167 contracts with five major publishers: Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and American Chemical Society.
Resolving the question of how to provide an infrastructure for open access books and monographs has remained a persistent problem for researchers, librarians and funders. The Open Research Library aims at bringing together all available open book content onto one platform, but has been met with mixed responses.
This paper analyses usage statistics, citation data and altmetrics from a university press publishing open access monographs. The data suggests, despite the small sample, that authors can to a greater extent influence how their book is discovered by the readership.
A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.
Female animals were once deemed too hormonal and messy for science. Some scientists warn it's not enough to just use more female lab rats.
Following a large consultation, have updated our open access (OA) policy so it now aligns with Plan S. The changes will apply from 1 January 2021.
The standardized test normally required for graduate school entrance in the US is being dropped by an increasing number of science PhD programs, amid concerns about diversity and the test's predictive value.
Plan S has injected a much-needed sense of urgency to the debate about transformation to full and immediate open access, but what are we missing in our focus on the minutiae of compliance?
Article concludes that the Citation Ratio is a useful and promising tool for comparing scientific impact of publications across disciplines and potentially for interdisciplinary works.
Academics are thronging to university counselling rooms to seek help for mental health problems and stress, a report suggests.
University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.
MCAA and Eurodoc call on research institutions, funding bodies and governments to ensure sustainable researcher careers in a joint declaration.
Atomic Age would mark the start of the current geologic time unit, if proposal receives final approval.
Open Access (OA) publishing has a long history, going back to the early 1990s, and was born with the explicit intention of improving…
According to the latest research results, the presence of simple hyphens in the titles of academic papers adversely affects the citation statistics, regardless of the quality of the articles.
In a significant escalation, policymakers are seeking to undermine or discard research showing the most dire risks of inaction on climate change.
Just as patients' access to journals is important,so is the access of doctors in developing countries.
The region already hosts some of the world's leading scientific countries, and some of its smaller states are quickly catching up.
Analysis of survey results and publication data from Scopus suggests that the following factors led authors to choose OA venues: ability to pay publishing charges, disciplinary colleagues’ positive attitudes toward OA, and personal feelings such as altruism and desire to reach a wide audience. Tenure status was not an apparent factor.
