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Switzerland

International Collaboration Publishes Concept Design for a Post-LHC Future Circular Collider at CERN

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International Collaboration Publishes Concept Design for a Post-LHC Future Circular Collider at CERN

Today, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration submitted its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for publication.

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Climate

Glaciers Are Retreating. Millions Rely on Their Water.

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Glaciers Are Retreating. Millions Rely on Their Water.

Glaciers are crucial sources of water for people and crops in Central Asia. But global warming is causing glaciers there and around the world to shrink every year.

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Genetics
Health Care

Nature Beats Nurture when It Comes to Causing Diseases

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Nature Beats Nurture when It Comes to Causing Diseases

Scientists dive into trove of insurance claims data to determine what causes most diseases.

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Climate

How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change?

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How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change?

Trees are supposed to slow global warming, but growing evidence suggests they might not always be climate saviours.

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Predatory Publishing
Publishing
Funding

Payouts Push Professors Towards Predatory Journals

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Predatory Publishing
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Payouts Push Professors Towards Predatory Journals

If South Africa truly wants to encourage good research, it must stop paying academics by the paper.

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Data Visualisation

Fundamentals of Data Visualization

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Data Visualisation

Fundamentals of Data Visualization

A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.

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Gender
Prizes

Women Who Win Prizes Get Less Money and Prestige

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Gender
Prizes

Women Who Win Prizes Get Less Money and Prestige

A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do.

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Plan S
Open Access

Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant

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Open Access

Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant

Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll access journals open access, taking for granted that existing open access journals are Plan S compliant. We suspected this was not so, and set out to explore this using DOAJ's journal metadata. We conclude that an overwhelmingly large majority of open access journals are not Plan S compliant, and that it is small HSS publishers not charging APCs that are least compliant and will face major challenges with becoming compliant. Plan S need to give special considerations to smaller publishers and/or non-APC-based journals.

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Open Access
Publishing

Pay to Publish Open Access: On the DEAL-Wiley Agreement

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Publishing

Pay to Publish Open Access: On the DEAL-Wiley Agreement

Details of the contract between the German consortium DEAL and Wiley reveal that the transformative nature of this new big deal may come at a high cost. 

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Funding
International

Researchers Can Now Transfer Wellcome Grants Outside the UK

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International

Researchers Can Now Transfer Wellcome Grants Outside the UK

Alyson Fox, the Director of Grants at Wellcome, explains why they're changing their policy on transferring grants to ensure research can thrive in the UK, EU and beyond.

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Why We Need a Public Infrastructure for Data on Open Access

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Why We Need a Public Infrastructure for Data on Open Access

The necessity of developing a public infrastructure for open access, its benefits and the obstacles to reaching this goal.

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Open Access

Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand

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Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand

 When the year began, the world's largest academic publisher, Elsevier, had increased their annual profits, with an operating profit approaching US$1.2 billion in science, technology, and medicine - a profit margin of over 36%. By year's end, a hefty chunk of the world's research community was walking away from big subscription deals with Elsevier and others. 

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Gender

Women Who Win Prizes Get Less Money and Prestige

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Gender

Women Who Win Prizes Get Less Money and Prestige

A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do, report Brian Uzzi and colleagues.

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Open Access

Change Ahead: How Do Smaller Publishers Perceive Open Access?

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Open Access

Change Ahead: How Do Smaller Publishers Perceive Open Access?

Reporting results from a comprehensive survey of publishers in the German-speaking world, Christian Kaier and Karin Lackner explore the attitudes of smaller publishers towards open access, finding …

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Open Access

Who Are You Writing For? The Role of Community Membership on Authors' Decisions to Publish in Open Access Mega-Journals

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Open Access

Who Are You Writing For? The Role of Community Membership on Authors' Decisions to Publish in Open Access Mega-Journals

Open Access mega-journals have in some academic disciplines become a key channel for communicating research. In others, however, they remain unknown. This article explores how authors’ perceptions of mega-journals differ across disciplines and are shaped by motivations associated with the multiple communities they function within.

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Peer Review

The Effect of Publishing Peer Review Reports on Referee Behavior in Five Scholarly Journals

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Peer Review

The Effect of Publishing Peer Review Reports on Referee Behavior in Five Scholarly Journals

To increase transparency in science, some scholarly journals have begun publishing peer review reports. Here, the authors show how this policy shift affects reviewer behavior by analyzing data from five journals piloting open peer review.

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Brexit

How UK Scientists Are Preparing for a Chaotic No-Deal Brexit

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Brexit

How UK Scientists Are Preparing for a Chaotic No-Deal Brexit

Lab gloves, fly food and charter planes - UK research institutes are preparing for a possible snap departure from the European Union in just 10 weeks.

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Open Access

Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Provide Recommendations for Plan S Implementation

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Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Provide Recommendations for Plan S Implementation

Harvard Library and the MIT Libraries are in broad support of Plan S and its goals while also recomending certain adjustments to the implementation details.

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Brexit

Bart De Strooper: 'Bright Young Scientists Won't Come to Join Us in UK'

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Brexit

Bart De Strooper: 'Bright Young Scientists Won't Come to Join Us in UK'

The Belgian biologist fears for the future of the pioneering UK Dementia Research Institute after Brexit

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Europe

Commission Plans to Shake Up Its Big Research Department

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Commission Plans to Shake Up Its Big Research Department

EU research chief Jean-Eric Paquet lays plans to refocus staff on policy goals, efficiency and cooperation with other parts of the Commission.

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Open Science

How Wikipedia Infiltrated Academia

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Open Science

How Wikipedia Infiltrated Academia

Wikipedia should be embraced by universities as an open-access source of information that can be the starting point for deeper research and learning, says John Lubbock.

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US

Surprise! Shutdown Also Disrupting U.S. Science Agencies That Aren't Closed

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Surprise! Shutdown Also Disrupting U.S. Science Agencies That Aren't Closed

And at NASA, nearly 200 postdocs furloughed

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Shutdown Will Cast a Long Shadow over Research

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US

Shutdown Will Cast a Long Shadow over Research

The sudden halt to US government functions leaves me worried about the effects on science for years to come, says Anne Jefferson.

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Switzerland
Climate

'Make Love, Not CO2': Swiss Students March for Climate Action

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Climate

'Make Love, Not CO2': Swiss Students March for Climate Action

Thousands of school children and university students across Switzerland skipped class on Friday to march in the streets and demand climate action, telling politicians "There is no planet B".

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Research
Interdisciplinarity

Guidelines on How to Successfully Design, and Implement, Mission-oriented Research Programmes

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Interdisciplinarity

Guidelines on How to Successfully Design, and Implement, Mission-oriented Research Programmes

SSH is crucial for succcess of programmes. These guidelines provide useful tools for those who deal - in one way or another - with research funding programmes.

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Peer Review

Talent Identification at the Limits of Peer Review: an Analysis of the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships Selection Process

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Talent Identification at the Limits of Peer Review: an Analysis of the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships Selection Process

The EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships selection process undergoes analysis.

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Open Access

European Parliament Petition on Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor - Green Tea and Velociraptors

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Open Access

European Parliament Petition on Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor - Green Tea and Velociraptors

Elsevier's role in the EU's Open Science Monitor is examined more closely.

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Integrity

Addressing Integrity Challenges in Research: the Institutional Dimension

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Addressing Integrity Challenges in Research: the Institutional Dimension

Concern for and interest in research integrity has increased significantly during recent decades, both in academic and in policy discourse.

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Plan S
Open Access

Policy Without Practice

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Plan S
Open Access

Policy Without Practice

Does it matter that there's no record of the Plan S leader publishing in a peer-reviewed journal?

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Education
Careers

New Research on Graduate Student Mental Well-being Says Departments Have Important Roles to Play in Fostering Healthy Environments

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Education
Careers

New Research on Graduate Student Mental Well-being Says Departments Have Important Roles to Play in Fostering Healthy Environments

New studies find variation by departments, with many findings of significant rates of depression and anxiety.

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