Rapid Science
To promote and reward collaboration we’re developing a “C-score” that measures the quality and quantity of collaborators’ contributions to group efforts.,
THE University Workplace Survey 2016
Times Higher Education's poll shows that the bulk of staff find their work rewarding but there is a deep gulf between academics and professional and support staff.
Biologists urged to hug a preprint
ASAPbio meeting discusses the ins and outs of posting work online before peer review.
NIH peer review percentile scores are poorly predictive of grant productivity
Paper underscores the limitations of peer review as a means of assessing grant applications in an era when typical success rates are often as low as about 10% in the US.
Zika virus initiative reveals deeper malady in scientific publishing
Moves to speed up the release of Zika virus research in response to the public health crisis highlight a systemic failure in scientific publishing.
Karolinska's vice-chancellor resigns over case of controversial surgeon
Anders Hamsten, has resigned after acknowledging that he mishandled the prestigious Swedish institute's investigation into controversial surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.
85% of health research is wasted
How to do great research, get it published, and improve health outcomes.
There's no space for today's young Einsteins
The gravitational waves theorist saw physics as no one else did, but if he was around today his time would be spent chasing grants or tenures.
A bridge to business
PhD holders should not underestimate their value to industry and the business sector.
Put innovation science at the heart of discovery
The success rate of discoveries would be improved if we could find out how to innovate.
Why one woman stole 47 million academic papers - and made them all free to read
How Sci-Hub breaks the paywall and how did academic journals get so expensive?
Review time in peer review: quantitative analysis and modelling of editorial workflows
Review time in peer review: quantitative analysis and modelling of editorial workflows
A data-driven theoretical investigation of editorial workflows.
The 2016 Science|Business Horizon 2020 Conference
Webcasts of the 2016 Science|Business Horizon2020 conference: will its overall, annual budget be cut in this year's EU funding review?
Open Scholar C.I.C.
A not-for-profit organisation whose activities, assets and profits are dedicated to the purpose of providing benefit to the scientific community.
Fire ants, goshawks and dog tongues. Oh my: the best of ScienceTake
ScienceTake 100th video: trying to offer compelling imagery, a glimpse at how science is done and answers to questions that are rarely asked.
Federal Council appoints Martin Vetterli President of EPFL
The President of the Research Council of the SNSF will take office on 1 January 2017, succeeding Patrick Aebischer, who has had 16 years at the helm of EPFL.
New research boss wants to reward fresh talent
Massimo Inguscio will take over from engineer Luigi Nicolais as president of Italy's largest research organization.
NIH to review its policies on all nonhuman primate research
The NIH will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals.
NSF launches long-awaited diversity initiative
The NSF announced its intention to hand out small grants later this year to dozens of institutions to test novel ways of broadening participation in science and engineering.
Academics fall short in reporting results of clinical trials
Only one-third of trials at US medical centres are reported within two years of completion.
Accord
Accord
Science International has developed an international accord on the values of open data in the emerging scientific culture of big data. Endorsements are welcome until 1 May 2016.
A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
Technological change is accelerating today at an unprecedented speed and could create a world we can barely begin to imagine.
Increasing access to the results of federally funded science
Three years after the OSTP directive, policies to make data and publications resulting from federally funded research publicly accessible are becoming the norm.
Science just wants to be free
On how scientific publishers are struggling to maintain their stranglehold over scientists.
The 10 largest public and philanthropic funders of health research in the world
The 10 largest public and philanthropic funders of health research in the world
What they fund and how they distribute their funds.
Mapping the hinterland: data issues in open science
This research investigates the relationship between open science and public engagement.
Enhancing Research Reproducibility
Recommendations from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
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