COAR and SPARC have published a joint response to the OSTP Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research. Good data management is critical for ensuring validation, transparency of research findings, as well as to maximize impact and value of publicly-funded research through data reuse.

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is delighted to announce the launch of Reformscape – a new online resource enabling the global academic community to explore and share examples of how to make hiring, promotion and tenure fairer, more robust and more diverse.

European Investment Bank provides surprise loan to halt startling brain drain.

Journal experiments and surveys suggest scientists are coming round to the idea of publishing review reports. A few journals, such as PeerJ, the BMJ and F1000Research, already embrace open peer review in various different forms.

More than 90 countries are using Covid shots from China. Experts say recent infections in those places should serve as a cautionary tale in the global effort to fight the disease.

[3]Opinion piece that calls for bioethics to ‘get out of the way’ prompts self-reflection among ethicists.

Must we always follow reason? Do I need a rational argument for why I should fall in love, cherish my children, enjoy the pleasures…

Researchers and other advocates for science gathered at Stand Up for Science rallies around the US and the world to protest the Trump administration's cuts to scientific research.

Nearly 1,000 signatories are asking the National Institutes of Health to reinstitute the Grant Support Index proposal.

The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, which represents the organisations most directly affected financially, was one voice of caution, saying it is "vital" that researchers have the freedom to publish where they choose.