Horizon Prizes
Launch of the Horizon Prizes which offer a cash reward to whoever can first or most effectively meet a defined challenge.
Keeping the lights on
Keeping the lights on
Every year, the US government gives research institutions billions of dollars towards infrastructure and administrative support. A Nature investigation reveals who is benefiting most.
Rush Holt will lead AAAS
Rush Holt, a physicist, educator, and eight-term Democratic member of Congress, has been named the new CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Juncker axes Europe's chief scientific adviser
While Europe’s scientists were watching Rosetta, President Juncker quietly scrapped the role of his top scientific adviser. What does this mean for the future of evidence-based policy in Europe?
Fall in grant application success rates at five research councils
Fewer applications prompt concerns over drop in funding and inflationary pressures.
Wellcome Trust announces major funding scheme changes
Early career researchers among those targeted for extra support
Now Google wants your genome
For $25 a year, Google will keep a copy of any genome in the cloud.
Gutausgebildete sagen der Schweiz Goodbye
One out of eight highly skilled students emigrates from Switzerland. The big looser is the state. But where do they go?
Why isn't academic research free to everyone?
Scholarly articles, filled with indubitable knowledge and analysis, only exist for the general public behind pricey paywalls. So one lecturer is advocating for them to be free of charge.
Aaron Swartz was no criminal
One of Swartz' lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT's gutless support of his prosecutors.
Peer review is fraught with problems, and we need a fix
Problems and limitations of the traditional and alternative peer review methods.
Science journals have passed their expiration date
Technology has helped so many industries evolve over the past few decades, but scientific publishing, surprisingly, has hardly changed since the first journal article in 1665.
Nature index for Europe
Europe's heavy administrative and bureaucratic burden makes collaborations difficult.
It's not "Publish or Perish" but rather "Do Great Science"
Publishing in high-impact-factor journals is commonly seen as a requirement for getting fellowships, faculty appointments, tenure, and funding. Most academics are wrong about this.
Unpaid bills complicate EU science budget crisis
A political impasse and a mounting pile of debts pose a threat to research in Europe.
Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals.
Counting the Costs of OA in the UK
SPARC Europe and London Higher have jointly commissioned a study by Research Consulting into the overhead costs to universities of complying with the RCUK OA policy.
Confusion over publisher's pioneering open-data rules
The Public Library of Science’s open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations.
Wellcome Trust wants research dreams to flourish
Director Jeremy Farrar on new plans to support more young scientists and ambitious projects, large and small.
The peer-review scam
When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing systems. Editors are trying to plug the holes.
What counts as an academic publication?
While The Conversation is built around a journalistic model, there is a big growth in online, open-access journals each with different approaches to peer review.
Incentives for researchers
Each country, scholarly field, and institution has developed responses to new scholarly communication systems, and those policies and responses influence the behavior of the scholars within those systems.
Counting the costs of OA
The estimated cost to UK research organisations of achieving compliance with OA mandates in 2013/2014.
How to reduce the administrative burden in research
How to reduce the administrative burden in research
CASRAI is an international non-profit dedicated to reducing the administrative burden on researchers and improving business intelligence capacity of research institutions and funders.
To some a citation is worth $3 per year
Everyone knows the peer review system is broken, but it’s difficult to break free of when incentives are aligned to maintain it.
OpenCon 2014
A playlist of all videos from OpenCon 2014, the Student and Early Career Conference on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.
Nature makes all articles free to view
Nature will make its articles back to 1869 free to share to be read online but not to be printed or downloaded.
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