New evidence suggests that the underrepresentation of women reflects a systemic bias in that marketplace: a failure to give women full credit for collaborative work done with men.

A new study by a congressional watchdog agency finds that female scientists are less likely than men to receive research grants from the U.S. government.

Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics.

Zu faul, keine Zeit, nicht fähig: Wie rasch Studierende im Web Ghostwriter für den Uni-Abschluss finden. Wie teuer das ist. Und warum die Institute dagegen machtlos sind.

Several widely used biology databases supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute are facing unsettling change.

Creators of computer programs that underpin experiments don’t always get their due — so the website Depsy is trying to track the impact of research code.

The proportion of male and female students varies widely across different subjects in UK universities.

Academic consortia urge faster changes in scholarly publishing.

A group of seven publishers has announced that they will begin requiring authors to use an ORCID identifier (iD) during the publication process.

An analysis of the correlation between vice-chancellors’ pay and university ranking.

Starting Jan 2016 Nature Communications will publish peer reviews alongside with the paper.

Scientists debate the merits of deleting journal names from their publication lists.

What academic research caught the public imagination in 2015? Altmetric has pulled together our annual list of the research that has attracted the most online attention in the past year.

Scientists can be stubborn. They can use their gravitas to steamroll new ideas. Which means those new ideas often only prevail when older scientists die.

The spending bill for the federal government ends more than 12 years of stagnant budgets for NIH.

Executive compensation at private and public colleges.

‘Too many institutions’ are ready to ‘sweep fraud under the carpet’.

Career development a priority in university contract.

Royal Society to make ORCIDs mandatory for its journals.

The Association of Universities in the Netherlands and Elsevier have reached an agreement in principle that marks a milestone in the Netherlands' transition to Open Access.

Commission proposes a research-friendly copyright for open science and innovation in Europe.

Research shifted focus away from harms of sugary drinks to exercise benefits.

Scientific publishers are forging links with an organization that wants scientists to scribble comments over online research papers.

PaperRank service will allow researchers to rate papers online in bid to accelerate and open up process.

Italian politicians have kindled the wrath of some biomedical scientists by hand-picking a stem-cell clinical trial for funding.

The Austrian Science Fund has agreed to support the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system at a rate equivalent to 15 institutions from 2016-2020.

A new journal is encouraging scientists to publish single observations, no matter how small.

Though several large online repositories of free books and academic articles were pulled offline, they are not planning to cease their activities and are continuing their operations through alternative domains and on the dark web.

rOpenSci, whose mission is to develop and maintain sustainable software tools that allow researchers to access, visualize, document, and publish open data on the Web, has been awarded a grant of nearly $2.9 million over 3 years from The Helmsley Charitable Trust.

The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation intends to set-up an Open Science Policy Platform to develop open science policy through a structured discussion with the main stakeholders.