Google wants to move on from this discussion and let the academics speak for themselves.

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These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.

House of Representatives spending panel adds language that limits the National Science Foundation’s ability to set priorities.

Major evaluation of country’s research landscape also found that internationalisation was a key area for improvement.

Government funding of science is essential to early career scientists.

Two top scientists are suing their employer, the Salk Institute, alleging that they and other women have suffered long-term gender discrimination at the renowned California research center.

An Iranian mathematician who was the only woman ever to win a Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics, died on Saturday. She was 40.

Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives also rejects a White House plan to cut 'indirect cost' payments to research institutions.

Nominate someone to recognise his work to promote sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest.

Measure would prevent Trump administration from slashing portion of grant that covers indirect costs

Thanks to a $99,000 research grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson must act swiftly to appoint a respected scientist or engineer as his science and technology adviser.

Authors submitting a manuscript to eLife are encouraged to upload it to a recognized preprint server at the same time in order to make their results available as quickly and as widely as possible.

For the first time, NWO is funding nine projects from the health and social sciences that replicate research from others.

Chinese scientists can be paid up to $165K for publishing a single paper in a top Western journal. The first study of payments to Chinese scientists for publishing in high-impact journals has serious implications for the future of research.

Physicist John Holdren was for 8 years Obama’s top aide on science and technology issues.

Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, cultivating financial relationships with professors nationwide.

WikiTribune has been awarded €385,000 by the Digital News Initiative fund.

Google has reportedly financed hundreds of research papers to help fight regulation that could harm it, via stipends of $5,000 to $400,000.

Office of Science and Technology Policy has so far played little role.

A Dutch funding agency is making €3 million available to repeat landmark studies—including one published in 1960.

In the three months following the Initiative for Open Citations' launch, the percentage of articles with open reference data has moved from 40% to over 45%.

High-bandwidth connections into the brain could treat blindness, paralysis, and speech disorders.

Navigating leave policies can be tricky, so postdocs need to be proactive and investigate all their resources.

39 percent reported having been verbally harassed and 9 percent said they had suffered physical harassment at work.

Sparrho is developing a free platform to find and share research publications and patents.

Group will explore opportunities to disseminate MIT knowledge as widely as possible.

Posting scientific papers online, free to the public, seems like a great idea. But it's more complicated than it sounds.

Jo Johnson outlines UK ambition to be ‘go-to country’ for innovation and discovery, even after Brexit