Preprints will be included in the Research Excellence Framework, the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in higher education institutions.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants a new fast-track visa system to attract leading scientists to work in the UK.

Jaqueline Zhao and Tim Jackson discuss the new regulations for China in 2019, after the gene-editing scandal which created international headlines.

Elsevier made legal threats, claiming that the mere act of linking to Sci-Hub was itself illegal. Yet Elsevier's own journals turn out to be full of links to Sci-Hub.

UCL's new megajournal 'UCL Open' has published its first article, delivering on our commitment to provide academics, students and the general public with ground-breaking research free of charge.

Top universities are dropping some of the hardest A-levels from their entry requirements to attract more girls and poorer pupils on to courses dominated by male and middle-class students.

Public confidence in scientists is on the upswing, and six-in-ten Americans say scientists should play an active role in policy debates about scientific issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

New data shows that many Ph.D.s switch jobs and employment sectors in their early careers and even into midcareer. So Ph.D. programs should help students navigate job opportunities and understand the value of their degrees across sectors.

This database puts libraries on a more level playing field with vendors by detailing what thousands of peer institutions have paid for journal subscription packages.

The experts will be responsible for designing the large-scale, objective-driven research projects, which are seen as central to reframing Europe’s approach to tackling ‘grand challenges’ including climate change, soil erosion, sustainable food production and marine and freshwater pollution.

The Association of European Research Libraries is working with Libraries Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA) to gather evidence about what happens when Technical Protection Measures (TPMs) block researchers from accessing content because they have attempted text and data mining. 

Google announces 2019 science fair winners.

The Trump administration wants to disband a panel of national security advisors, the latest U.S. crackdown on science.

Universities fear chaos in September as private company struggles with workload.

Wellcome Trust chairwoman warns Boris Johnson that Britain will lose out if it "amputates" the EU.

In this post it is discussed how open research can lead to economic benefits. The author suggests that future open research policies should focus on developing research discovery, translation and the capacity for research utilisation outside of the academy.

We celebrate the official launch of the ORCID Austria consortium at their recent workshop in Vienna, co-hosted by lead organizations TU Wien and the University of Vienna.

"Manned" spaceflight doesn't make sense anymore.

I was a climate scientist in a climate-denying administration - and it cost me my job writes Maria Caffrey

Many of the deadliest or most common cancers get the least amount of nonprofit research funding, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study that examined cancer research funding from nonprofit organizations.

Until recently, few universities tried to replicate the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, aiming to increase diversity among future leaders in science, technology, engineering and related fields. But that's changing.

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce an agreement to work together to strengthen and expand capacities for research data management within the international data repository community.

Scientific manuscript tracking and pre-prints with the In Review service from Springer Nature and Research Square. 

Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has interrupted clinical trials and forced scientists to change how they immunize people.

The climate emergency movement is heading to school. Global higher education networks tying together more than 7000 universities and colleges from across the globe declared a climate emergency and published a three-point plan to confront the escalating environmental crisis.

A new study of millions of patents granted between 1926 and 2017 supports the value of spending tax dollars on basic research.

A Chinese scientist’s startup fled the U.S. after a federal investigation that included a failed sting, airport stops and an unfounded child-porn search.

Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in Google Scholar publications.

Collaboration brings together leading platforms for data and software sharing.

We scientists must stand up for openness and fairness. Discriminating against someone because of their ethnicity, turning down a collaboration or refusing a visa for a conference on the grounds of nationality, or simply making someone feel unwelcome because they are an immigrant - these are all morally objectionable and practically counterproductive. Such behaviour must cease.