A leading website that monitored predatory open access journals has closed. This will make it harder to keep tabs on this corrosive force within science.
Every single day new advancements are being made in the world of education, but when you look at the media and the people who are making these advancements, you rarely will see a black woman being honored.
For publishers, this moment of political upheaval has the potential to allow them to reboot their fraught relationships with libraries, universities, and scientists.
As United States and British legislators tighten the screws on travel and visa rules, they might be squeezing out international researchers and students. Canadian universities, meanwhile, are seeing surging interest from both groups.
The Trump administration has mounted a vigorous defense of its ban on travel from seven majority-Muslim nations, saying it is necessary to prevent terrorists from entering the United States. But the ban, now blocked by a federal judge, also ensnared travelers important to the well-being of many Americans: doctors.
Two University of Washington professors are taking aim at BS in a provocatively named new course they hope to teach this spring.
A road map for the founding entrepreneur who seeks to retain the CEO position as a company gains market traction and begins a period of rapid growth.
Very informative and In-depth annual open access roundup.
Replacing the real world with a virtual one is a neat trick. Combining the two could be more useful.
This is one of our biggest failures as a scientific community — we haven’t done a good job of actually communicating with people about what we do.
Bubbling beakers, blazing Bunsen burners, boiling broths and a book.
Universities are facing a crisis of relevance. While there are multiple reasons for this to be happening, one that deserves particular attention is the extent to which academic scholars do not see it as their role to engage in public and political discourse. However, increased engagement is unavoidable in an emerging educational context where the calibre of public discourse has become so degraded and social media is changing the nature of science and scientific discourse within society.
An overview of the new rules to consider where scientific projects include the processing of personal data.
The Scholix initiative is a high level interoperability framework for exchanging information about the links between scholarly literature and data.
Two countries vie to invest more of their economy into research than anyone else.
Each scientist and engineer chosen will receive an average of up to $300,000 per year for 5 years for life sciences research.
Nearly 100 founders and leaders of biotech companies express their deep concern and opposition to the executive order signed by President Donald Trump on January 27, 2017.
The EU should listen to the innovators, knowledge creators and developers when it comes to data mining: the potential benefits are too great to be ignored, writes Helen Frew.
Authors want to know about citations, downloads, and impact metrics. This post reviews common metrics and explores the limitations inherent in each.
22 April demonstrations planned for more than 100 cities around the world
The growth of open access hasn't significantly changed the publishing landscape as regards impact factor.
There are more academic publishers out there than ever before. In 2014 there was an estimated 28,100 active scientific journals, but while the large majority of these journals are highly respected, there has also been a sharp rise in the number of predatory journals.
Australia's Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel has said US President Donald Trump's move to censor environmental data is 'reminiscent' of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's control of science in the USSR.
When politics meddles with science, it can lead to tragedy, as was the case with Stalin's favourite agricultural biologist Trofim Lysenko and his rival Nikolai Vavilov.
This episode we spoke to Max Hodak Founder and CEO of Transcriptic, a Menlo Park based biotech company offering a robotic solution to research in the life sciences.
Any science enthusiast doing genetic engineering outside of a licensed facility might face a fine of €50,000 or up to three years in prison.
Now we know the identity of the chief executive of UK Research and Innovation, the science community will be anxiously watching his first steps.
EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas praises scientists for finding their voice.
