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It's that time of the year, and the Brussels research community is urging policymakers to ensure there is enough money for the EU's Horizon Europe research programme in 2023.
The OSTP Nelson Memo has caused quite a stir in scholarly communication circles. How will academia handle the zero embargo?
The number of cabinet committees has been slimmed down from 20 to just six, with the National Science and Technology Council among those abolished.
Leader of Russia's largest chipmaker elected president after incumbent's sudden withdrawal.
Ambitious $746 million program aims to complement big neuroscience projects in Europe and the United States.
Research Information spoke to four experts in the field about the ongoing move to open science, and the challenges that have emerged in an increasingly complex open-science ecosystem.
Beyond ideological boundaries, the Open Science movement should address the question of whether and, if so, under which framework conditions “closeness” can be appropriate in global, political crises. Openness must not be abused to place sanctions in global, political crises by closing open offers.
As the start of the 2022/23 academic year begins, it’s timely to draw attention to technicians who play a critical role in higher education and research.
'Jarring' study reveals hiring bias at US institutions.
More funders should consider using randomization to choose grant recipients when decisions are too close to call.
Does trust in research begin with trust in peer review across the whole ecosystem, and what does that look like for different communities and stakeholders?
Biosecurity advisers to the federal government are calling for tighter scrutiny of experiments with potentially dangerous viruses and other pathogens, reflecting an ongoing debate within the scientific community over the benefits and risks of such laboratory research.
Europe's largest research labs have begun to worry about soaring utility bills and are drafting proposals for additional funding, as they enter into negotiations with national research agencies on overall budgets.
Chris Graf (and colleagues) present five reasons to be cheerful about research integrity and peer review.
Archaeologists say find supports theory that drug was used in burial rituals, possibly to 'enter ecstatic state'
Every era has its myths and rituals, doomed to seem absurd to future generations. Today, we believe in psychology.
European Research Council president tells UN General Assembly science alone is not guaranteed to save the world from the climate disaster and the other crises it faces.
The lifting of pandemic restrictions on travel and increased requirements in EU research programmes for researchers to spend time abroad is drawing renewed attention to the way in which blanket EU rules for managing labour flows are getting in the way.
Science and public health can benefit tremendously from sharing and reuse of health data. The Research for Health department has helped spearhead the launch of a new policy from the Science Division which covers all research undertaken by or with support from WHO. The goal is to make sure that all research data is shared equitably, ethically and efficiently.
For an early start on Peer Review Week, we reached out to the SSP community to ask "Is research integrity possible without peer review?"
Reference lists for more than 60 million journal studies in Crossref are now free to view and reuse.
The ERC funds curiosity-driven research without predetermined thematic priorities. Even so, ERC grantees often tackle global challenges in their research, offering innovative and sustainable solutions. With the intention to map the breadth and diversity of the research it supports, the ERC analysed the content of the projects funded under the Horizon 2020 framework programme for research and innovation. The analysis gives a comprehensive picture of ERC frontier research across scientific fields, including interdisciplinary crossovers and collaborations.
Scheme gets under way as data suggests Environment Agency's own monitoring leaves rivers unprotected
Funders and publishers are increasingly asking researchers to account for the role of sex in experiments - a requirement that's contentious and hard to get right.