The fifth annual Peer Review Week will take place from September 16-20, 2019. This post reflects on its history and achievements. 

Reviewers can now enter their ORCID iD in the Editorial Manager submission system for all PLOS journals and opt-in to automatically get credit when they complete a review, the same way they would for their published articles.

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Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in

Berlin-based academic network faces court action in US and Germany, and lost more than €12 million (£10.7 million) in 2017, accounts show.

Canada’s top universities and research institutes spent $5.7 billion on research and development (R&D), but generated less than $75 million from licensing their innovations in 2017. That’s an average return on investment of 1.3 per cent.

The goal of the Open Science Graphs Interest Group (OSG IG) is to build on the outcomes and broaden the challenges of the Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) and Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) RDA Working Groups to investigate the open issues and identify solutions towards achieving interoperability between services and information models of Open Science Graph initiatives.

Our research suggests that the theory that conservatives and liberals respond differently to threats isn't actually true.

A Dutch engineering university is taking radical action to increase its share of female academics by opening job vacancies to women only.

This ranking shows which institutions might be punching above their weight in producing high-quality research.

Sluggish economy and unemployment could explain French pessimism about science's job-boosting power.

At Elsevier's International Center for the Study of Research, experts will examine research using metrics and other qualitative and quantitative methods. 

Als Michael Hengartner, Präsident swissuniversities und Rektor der Universität Zürich an der Open Access Konferenz Schweiz 2018 gefragt wurde, ob er im Sinne von Open Access auch die kommenden Vert…

Researchers can see at a glance the rules they’ll need to follow if they submit to a particular journal.

Research teams traversing partially melted fjord to retrieve weather equipment release startling picture.

CERN has launched an ambitious drive towards open source software after Microsoft revoked its academic discount and introduced a new contract which was set to lead to a tenfold increase in licensing costs.

Francis Collins pledged to decline to speak at conferences that do not include enough women in prominent speaking roles.

How a simple nudge can improve health and nutrition reporting. The Twitter account retweets science articles, adding “IN MICE.”

Hundreds of thousands protest against ‘culture of sexism in everday life’.

Women are protesting against the slow pace of change, calling for "more money, time and respect".

Professor Martin Eve will lead Birkbeck's part in the project, which has been made possible through a £2.2 million grant from Research England.

ASAPbio launched Transpose, a database of journal peer review, co-reviewing, and preprint policies relating to media coverage, licensing, versions, and citation.

The Ben Barres Spotlight Awards will give scientists in underrepresented communities an opportunity to gain visibility for their work and increase collaboration.

Academy will be managed by nationalist government in unprecedented move.

NIH director will no longer participate in all-male panels.

The Lancet welcomes the latest Plan S guidance, but differs in one aspect. 

This paper presents a first attempt to analyse Open Access integration at the institutional level. For this, we combine information from Unpaywall and the Leiden Ranking to offer basic OA indicators for universities. OA indicators are also disaggregated by green, gold and hybrid Open Access. We then explore differences between and within countries and offer a general ranking of universities based on the proportion of their output which is openly accessible.

Administration officials said proposed testimony by a State Department scientist amounted to "climate alarm propaganda."

Digital Science launched a report on the state of open access monographs. The report addresses the question of how we integrate and value monographs in the increasingly open digital scholarly network.

If the system is adopted, reviewers and applicants will be anonymous, in an attempt to make selection fairer.