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Earlier this year, the Montreal Neurological Institute announced an ambitious commitment to the principles of open science. The Neuro will be eschewing patents for its discoveries and doing all it can to make its research findings widely available. While there have been other large-scale open science initiatives the Neuro is the first major research institute of its kind to make such a wide-ranging commitment to open science.
Researchers at top-flight institutions are not immune to charms of questionable journals
McGill's Neurological Institute open science agenda includes open access publication of all research data and findings, and an end to the practice of patenting the university's findings.
Science policy is slowly waking up to the realisation that the value of science may lie in people and places rather than papers and patents.
The Swiss parliament approved a law to limit immigration by giving its residents priority access to employment vacancies, in an effort to shore up ties with the EU.
New analysis finds that smaller labs get more bang for the buck.
Figshare announced a new partnership with Springer Nature to support BioMed Central and SpringerOpen authors who wish to openly share their supplementary data. Figshare are now hosting additional files from more than 300 BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals.
Over 60 major German research institutions are canceling their subscriptions to all of Elsevier's academic and scientific journals, effective January 1, 2017.
Amazon made its first commercial drone delivery on Dec. 7 in Cambridgeshire, England.
More than 60 major German research institutions are to be expected to have no access to the full texts of journals by the publisher Elsevier from 1 January 2017 on, among them Göttingen University with 440 Elsevier journals.
Eight highly-visible organizations today announced the launch of the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership designed to increase access to research outputs. With nearly $5 billion in combined annual grants conferred, these organizations are committed to using their positions to foster more open sharing of research articles and data. This openness, the members believe, will accelerate the pace of discovery, reduce information-sharing gaps, encourage innovation, and promote reproducibility.
Women in academia may be losing out salary-wise because they are more focused on tasks that may go unrewarded, a new study suggests
Yesterday, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law.
The University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute are vying for lucrative rights to the gene-editing system.
The trend of turning universities into businesses is limiting research freedoms in traditionally liberal institutes in northern Europe.
If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.
One Trump adviser suggested that NASA no longer should conduct climate research and instead should focus on space exploration.
What academic research caught the public imagination in 2016?
A little over 1 year ago, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) launched mSphere as an open-access, online, pan-microbial sciences journal. We established two major goals: publish cutting-edge science and implement policies and processes to make the publication experience less onerous for authors.
A worldwide coding competition reveals the universities producing the very best coders.
The open-access microbiology journal mSphere will give authors a "super-fast track" option toward publication. The idea has some ardent fans, but is also drawing doubts.
How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of science knowingly let flawed research slip through.
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said Friday that it would be a "privilege" to remain in that post if asked to stay by President-elect Donald Trump.
A look at the literature reveals shortcomings in the way OA and subscription models are being compared and suggests how future studies could build on existing research to provide a more accurate picture
