Anarchy and Exploitation in Scientific Communication
Technology, greed, a lack of clear rules and norms, hyper-competitiveness and a certain amount of corruption have resulted in confusion and anarchy in the world of scientific communication.
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Technology, greed, a lack of clear rules and norms, hyper-competitiveness and a certain amount of corruption have resulted in confusion and anarchy in the world of scientific communication.
An expert group appointed by the government has proposed to change the procedures on how research funding from the Research Council of Norway is distributed and to cut the administrative budget of the research council by NOK80 million (US$9.6 million).
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Academics in Japan are bitterly divided over defence ministry grants to universities for defence-related research.
Erdogan, has taken direct control of the appointment of university rectors and a further 1,267 academics have been dismissed.
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A proposal for a more peer review based funding of Swedish research prepared by the Swedish Research Council has been rejected by a majority of Swedish universities.
Russian government failed to pay for the subscription for 2014 to the amount of €890,000 (US$1 million).
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The World Library of Science will give students and teachers around the world access to the latest science.