David Willetts resigned from his post as UK universities and science minister yesterday as part of a government reshuffle. Today, Greg Clark, a conservative minister responsible for cities policy and constitutional reform, has taken over Willetts' portfolio.

Anonymity of authors as well as reviewers could level field for women and minorities in science.

At the beginning of July, LIBER and 17 other research and library organisations across Europe called on Elsevier to withdraw its current policy on text and data mining (TDM). The number of signatories to the letter has now surpassed 40. They include 33 professional groups plus individual researchers, professors and librarians in a total of 18 countries.

A new study finds that very few scientists (fewer than 1%) manage to publish a paper every year. But these scientists dominate the research journals, having their names on 41% of all papers.

Das britische Medienhaus BBC will künftig Wissenschafter, die abseitige Meinungen vertreten, seltener zu Wort kommen lassen. Das bedrohe die Meinungsfreiheit, sagen Kritiker.

Mit einem neuen Kompetenzzentrum wollen ETH Zürich und Universität Zürich in der «Personalisierten Medizin» Führung übernehmen.

Changes in scope and focus of European project anger factions of neuroscience community.

After a successful, six month pilot program, we’re pleased to roll out Altmetric today across all Wiley journals.

New policy follows efforts by other journals to bolster standards of data analysis.

A new network is being launched today, to strengthen science advice and evidence-based policymaking across Europe.

Research-agency staff protest over slashed spending and concerns about country’s future research capability

The people have spoken. Antibiotic resistance has been voted by the British public as the subject of the UK government's £10 million ($17 million) Longitude Prize - an initiative aimed at tackling society's greatest issues.

According to the review, some 10% of France's public research funds are awarded to specific projects on a competitive basis—the lowest figure among OECD's 34 member countries—compared with about 22% in Switzerland, about 38% in Germany, and 70% in South Korea.

Five Western Balkan countries, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, and the Republic of Moldova on Tuesday signed up to join Horizon 2020.

This release is based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of mid-June 2013 and covers articles published in 2009–2013.

Two retractions highlight long-standing issues of trust and sloppiness that must be addressed

New citation analyses reveal a who’s who of the most impactful scientific researchers.

ERC has announced a decrease in proposals submitted to the 2014.

The UK and other European countries are underinvesting in research and development, according to a report from the European Commission.

The Research Council of Norway is introducing a new, five-year funding scheme that will cover a significant share of the costs incurred by research institutions for publication in open access journals.

Millions of patient records were sold to insurance firms who used it to set their critical illness premiums in a series of 'unacceptable lapses', an independent review finds.

Japan is still the number one nation but the balance of power is shifting as Beijing increases research funding

For the EU commission, there is no legal way to restart science funding unless Switzerland extends freedom of movement to Croatia.

Members of the US National Academy of Sciences have long enjoyed a privileged path to publication in PNAS. Meet the scientists who use it most heavily.

A new study shows universities pay more or less for academic journal bundles than would be expected based simply on size or number of Ph.D.s granted.

A final version of NIH document presents an estimate of the money needed.

The NIH is working on multiple fronts to get to the bottom of unexplained racial disparities in R01 grant funding and to maximize fairness in NIH peer review.

Academic funding agencies should support research in unfashionable fields; a letter to David Cameron.

Mit Walter Gehring ist einer der letzten grossen, umfassend gebildeten Biologen von uns gegangen.

Nature announced the launch of its new journal: Scientific Data.