In the present paper, we attempt to characterise, quantify and measure the response of academia to international public health emergencies in a comparative bibliometric study of multiple outbreaks.

The Open Data Institute invites people from across the globe to join and discuss how humanity can harness the power of data in a changing world.

There is a preprint with data on the first coronavirus vaccine candidate from the Pfizer/BioNTech effort. This article argues that it's extremely important that the human trial data is made available for the public to trust the vaccines that get approved.  

R&D Roadmap sets out vision to attract global talent, increase investment, cut unnecessary bureaucracy, and cement the UK as a world-leading science superpower.

swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative Open Access agreement with Springer Nature. This agreement provides Swiss researchers with access to SpringerLink with over 2’000 Hybrid journals and enables authors affiliated with the Swiss academic and research institutions to publish their accepted research papers Open Access, making this primary research immediately and freely accessible from the point of publication.

The SNSF and the Dutch Research Council have agreed to finance joint projects. This will make it much easier for Swiss researchers to collaborate with their Dutch counterparts.

Ian Sample talks to Prof Kate Jones about whether the current coronavirus pandemic is part of a wider picture of increasing animal to human virus transmission.

Study says surge in volcanic activity could not have caused Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction event.

Publishers have had a good 355 years, but change is coming.

Are impact factors manipulated by a large-scale practice of self-citation?

MIT Press is launching a journal that will review Covid-19 preprints, in an effort to quickly call out misinformation and highlight credible research.

Two support packages will give greater job protection to thousands of researchers, scientists and technicians working at UK universities during coronavirus (COVID-19).

The UK government has announced some significant new measures for universities and research impacted by Covid-19 this year.

The UK government is announcing today a package to support universities to continue research and innovation activities.

There is wide agreement with the principles of Open Science in economics. This is shown by a ZBW study. However, there is still room for development regarding the implementation of Open Science on a b

Science Advances article on diabetes drug co-authored by Mauro Ferrari retracted after readers spot irregularities

Along with healthcare providers around the world, the Wellcome Trust PhD fellow Karin Purshouse is seeing the need for fast-tracked guidance on the virus and patient treatment.

The world's premier health agency pushed a flawed coronavirus containment strategy - until it disappeared from public view one day before the outbreak was declared a pandemic.

The agency has outlined actions it may take to deal with bullies and harassers, but it still relies on universities to report bad behaviour.

Code for Science & Society aim to improve access to open data science practices and tools and support communities in open data science to grow sustainably and inclusively.

The U.S. has seen more cases in the past week than in any week since the pandemic began.

Political parties demand Sweden's strategy be reviewed before next election in 2022.

The research was the target of a conspiracy theory about the origin of the new coronavirus.

Following an intense period of consultation and co-design, we are excited to unveil our first wave of projects, which will run for the remainder of RoRI's pilot phase (until autumn 2021). We are also delighted to announce our partners, who will be collaborating in the design and delivery of these projects. 

Unequal childcare burden blamed for fall in share of published research by women since schools shut, but funding bodies look to alleviate career impact.

But auditing such efforts will be difficult, while unintended consequences are always a risk, warns Athene Donald.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA.

ALLEA has launched a task force dedicated to open science and chaired by Luke Drury (Royal Irish Academy).