Catherine Winchester was hired to ferret out errors and establish routines that promote rigorous research.

Visual exploration of projects within the OpenAIRE database.

Universities say they are taking steps to promote BAME staff and address the attainment gap, but progress is far too slow

John Tyndall, a male physicist, is usually cited as the scientists who proved the effect driving global climate change. But the honor should partly go to Eunice Foote.

The £6 billion-a-year funding agency formally went live at the start of April, Monday was the first public airing of its plans.

It’s not hard to get excited over money that will support imaging of the Earth, or the Atlas of Living Australia. But important as these projects are, there’s a whole set of infrastructure that rarely gets mentioned or noticed: “soft” infrastructure. These are the services, policies or practices that keep academic research working and, now, open.

Male scientists in the United Kingdom received an extra 40 pence for every pound awarded to women, reveals an analysis of cancer research funding over more than a decade.

Some progress has been made in encouraging girls to study A-level physics, but not enough, says report.

Scientists pride themselves on being keen observers, but many seem to have trouble spotting the problems right under their noses. Those who run labs have a much rosier picture of the dynamics in their research groups than do many staff members working in the trenches.

On the basis of a survey of 7103 active faculty researchers in nine fields, this paper examines the extent to which scientists disclose prepublication results, and when they do, why?

Some new tools from the Open Access Button.

Sweden is the latest country to hold out on journal subscriptions, while negotiators share tactics to broker new deals with publishers.  Inspired by the results of a stand-off in Germany, negotiators from libraries and university consortia across Europe increasingly declare that if they don’t like what publishers offer, they will refuse to pay for journal access at all.

Michael Eisen is anything but silent. In his career as a scientist, which has included a slapdash U.S. Senate campaign, blog posts, and nearly 39,000 tweets, he has lobbed grenades at the powers that be.

The 2-day eLife Innovation Sprint was aimed at bringing together 'computer people' and 'science people' in order to create novel tools for open science.

Prime Minister Theresa May spoke at Jodrell Bank. Delivered on 21 May 2018 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered.)

Something strange began happening with a U.S. Department of Education loan program known as Parent PLUS, under which parents borrow money from the government to finance their children’s education.