Billionaire David Rockefeller, along with the foundation of his longtime friend, the late Greek shipping billionaire Stavros Niarchos, have pledged $150 million to expand the university founded by Rockefeller’s grandfather.
Die EU will das Geld für ihr milliardenschweres Investitionsprogramm aus dem Forschungsbudget entnehmen. Besser als ein kreditfinanziertes Investitionsprogramm wäre es, eine EU-weite Steuererleichterung für Forschungs- und Innovationstätigkeiten der Privatwirtschaft einzuführen.
Recent moves by established journals to make research papers freely available signpost the direction of travel in academic publishing
Opinion article by the founders of PubPeer.com on right to anonymity.
Able women who set out to make academic careers in math-intensive fields of science have as good a chance of succeeding as men today, keeping in mind that the chances don’t appear great for anyone of either gender.
Never thought of being gender biased when performing evaluations? Take the implicit association test.
“In the modern British university, it is not that funding is sought in order to carry out research, but that research projects are formulated in order to get funding.”
A startup enables researchers to tap labs worldwide to conduct experiments on their behalf
The findings of a series of surveys exploring the culture of scientific research in the UK. It also contains a list of recommendations for funding bodies.
It is unclear whether or how the career preferences of women and underrepresented minority scientists change in manners distinct from their better-represented peers.
This article describes a systematic analysis of the relationship between empirical data and theoretical conclusions for a set of experimental psychology articles published in the journal Science between 2005-2012.
The ERC has selected 328 first class scientists to receive its prestigious Starting Grants, worth up to €2 million each.
£6 billion (ca. 9 billion CHF) package for science and innovation in the years 2016 to 2021 announced. A review of research councils will ensure 'maximum impact' from investment.
First call for "Shared Research Facilities" shall organize and give access to bigger research infrastructures in Austria
In northern countries the most important incentives for individual researcher mobility and ERC success is early independence.
A study based on arXiv shows that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others.
The former blog "Retraction Watch" will become an online, public, and freely accessible database of all retractions in every field of science.
Ten people who mattered this year.
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication.
The top 100 list of Altmetrics is fascinating for what it tells us about communication between scientists, the attention paid to science by the general public, and also for what it tells us about altmetrics themselves.
Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.
First comprehensive study of patterns of text reuse within the full texts of an important large scientific corpus, covering a 20-y timeframe.
100 top ranked specialties in the sciences and social sciences
Scientific publishers must shake off three centuries of publishing on paper and embrace 21st century technology to make scientific communication more intelligible, reproducible, engaging and rapidly available.
Data show scores given to grant applications by external reviewers don't correlate with what actually gets funded.
Share of research funding going to young scientists is declining.
How using absolute numbers and journal reputation can yield misleading results.
Two of India's science funding agencies are joining the push to make the results of the research they fund freely available to the public.
