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Funders behind the policy revise rules after major consultation.

The Second EUA Big Deals Survey Report is an updated mapping of major scholarly publishing contracts in Europe. Conducted in 2017-2018, the report gathers data from 31 consortia covering an unprecedented 167 contracts with five major publishers: Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and American Chemical Society.

A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.

Female animals were once deemed too hormonal and messy for science. Some scientists warn it's not enough to just use more female lab rats.

Following a large consultation,  have updated our open access (OA) policy so it now aligns with Plan S. The changes will apply from 1 January 2021.

The standardized test normally required for graduate school entrance in the US is being dropped by an increasing number of science PhD programs, amid concerns about diversity and the test's predictive value.

Resolving the question of how to provide an infrastructure for open access books and monographs has remained a persistent problem for researchers, librarians and funders.  The Open Research Library aims at bringing together all available open book content onto one platform, but has been met with mixed responses.

Academics are thronging to university counselling rooms to seek help for mental health problems and stress, a report suggests.

In a significant escalation, policymakers are seeking to undermine or discard research showing the most dire risks of inaction on climate change.

MCAA and Eurodoc call on research institutions, funding bodies and governments to ensure sustainable researcher careers in a joint declaration.

Having early and rapid access to research findings accelerates the pace of science and is paramount for advancing discovery. Springer Nature considers itself ideally placed to help facilitate this and making great research available as quickly as possible to the research community. 

Gene therapy achieves a milestone. Novartis will sell the world’s most expensive drug, a treatment called Zolgensma to treat spinal muscular atrophy.

Do Swiss researchers share their data with other researchers and with the public? And if not, why? Which data repositories and other channels do they use for data sharing? A large-scale survey by the SNSF and swissuniversities offers some answers.

Despite repeatedly expressing public support for children’s health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants’ effects on child development.

ELife announces their roadmap towards an open, scalable infrastructure for the publication of computationally reproducible articles.

The hunger for these offsets is blinding us to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't - and won't - deliver the climate benefit they promise.

The surveys are rife with bias, and educational and legal considerations are upping the pressure to change them and maybe even eliminate them.

Six candidate research proposals lost in limbo.

The new Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE) journal is attempting to fight publication bias.

Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?

From now, house style guide recommends terms such as 'climate crisis' and 'global heating'.

The two-page brochure describes the impact of Electronic Information for Libraries' (EIFL) open science training at universities and research institutes in Africa and Europe.  

Open Knowledge for Latin America and the Global south (AmeliCA) is pleased to be part of this initiative that furthers an open, scalable, long-lasting scientific infrastructure that seeks to spread its benefits worldwide.

An infographic showing the prevalence of mental health problems in PhD students. It also gives information on how one can overcome these problems.

The 2019 edition of the CWTS Leiden Ranking introduces indicators of open access publishing and gender diversity. 

Some publishers are considering an approach they hope will both comply with "Plan S" and maintain their subscription income: allowing authors to post manuscripts in public archives as soon as their papers are published.

Recognizing the benefits, we move from merely supporting the use of preprint servers to promoting it.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will soon invite applications for open source software projects that are essential to biomedical research. Applicants can request funding between $50k and $250k for one year. 

This article presents a new initiative from the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden (CWTS), to assess gender inequality in research publication across different institutions internationally and drive further change in the sector.