ScienceGeist

This course will examine the science and technology innovation system, including case studies on energy, computing, advanced manufacturing and health sectors, with an emphasis on public policy and the federal government's R&D role in that system.

Some smaller countries are out-spending much larger economies in research and development.

This account explores the form and extent of research fraud, the time it takes to investigate these frauds and the inadequacy of university investigations.

The maintenance of scientific open source software is unlike scientific papers or other traditional forms of research outputs; they become increasingly more challenging to maintain the larger their user base.

The scientific endeavour inherently does not have a passport, it is a truly global citizen and it would be a shame to restrict its abilities for the purposes of political negotiations.

The cOAlition S funded Journal Checker Tool (JCT) was released. Although it is in open testing mode, this is a big milestone: the tool is released now to give the Plan S community an opportunity to road test it. 

The campus free speech debate is heating up. Last month I made the case (first in a Twitter thread and then again at the Washington Post's The Monkey Cage) that there is no campus free speech crisis. Around the same time, similar arguments were made by Matt Yglesias (at Vox), Aaron Hanlon (at NBC), and …

As Stanford faculty members disagree - often publicly - about the best way to confront COVID-19, questions about the responsibilities and limitations of academic freedom and the university's relationship to the Hoover Institution have arisen.

This map shows the risk level of attending an event, given the event size and location in the US.

The Swiss cheese model of accident causation is a framework for thinking about how to layer security measures to minimize risk and prevent failure.

The open access debate has revealed the complicated and contradictory nature of the academic publishing landscape in which trade unions have a role to play.

The purpose of this review is to provide the GRANteD project with robust analytical approaches and methodological insights that take into account the state of the art, but it also acknowledges and aims to overcome the main shortcomings and point out the gaps of the existing literature.

Researchers argue that it's time to invest in aggressive carbon capture.

One of the largest academic surveys ever conducted about COVID-19 included input from academics from diverse countries, roles, and areas of research.

Australian universities are letting world ranking ambitions skew what they teach at a cost to local history and politics, says Australian National University vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt.

Dominic Cummings championed new funding agency but is reportedly leaving amid huge Number 10 row

Vaccine science by press release has to stop.

Reporting on the big announcement from Pfizer and BioNTech has been a little off the mark. Here's what we really know right now.

Scientists have dreamed about the possibilities of custom-made messenger RNA. The pandemic may turn those possibilities into realilty.

A neutral, independent intermediary enabling shared infrastructure, bringing transparency, efficiency and cost effectiveness to the open access ecosystem.

DOAJ, the CLOCKSS Archive, Internet Archive, Keepers Registry/ISSN International Centre and Public Knowledge Project (PKP) have agreed to partner to provide an alternative pathway for the preservation of small-scale, APC-free, Open Access journals.

Racism, climate denial, and COVID-19 are major crises standing in the way of a prosperous future for the United States, and resolution of all three could be enabled by science that is persistently ignored.

More than 160 scientists have now signed the letter to European Commission President.

OpenAIREs 12th workshop on University approaches to Citizen Science in the transition to Open Science Institutional opportunities and challenges for creating an open and inclusive environment for Research.

Social scientist and technology expert Zeynep Tufekci has been prescient about COVID-19 transmission. Eric Topol talks with her about how she does it and why such approaches make the difference.

Preventing hot spots of COVID-19 transmission has emerged as a key challenge in the fight against the virus

A dedicated brokerage event for entities looking for opportunities to involve Social Sciences and Humanities institutions in EU H2020 Green Deal calls.

This guide wants to inform researchers about the Creative Commons (CC) licence system

The agreement will allow authors at eligible German institutes to publish papers for fee of about £8500 each

A look at international activities on Open Science reveals a broad spectrum from individual institutional policies to national action plans. The present Recommendations for a National Open Science Strategy in Austria are based on these international initiatives and present practical considerations for their coordinated implementation with regard to strategic developments in research, technology and innovation (RTI) in Austria until 2030. The recommendation paper was developed from 2018 to 2020 by the OANA working group "Open Science Strategy" and published for the first time in spring 2020 for a public consultation. The now available final version of the recommendation document, which contains feedback and comments from the consultation, is intended to provide an impetus for further discussion and implementation of Open Science in Austria and serves as a contribution and basis for a potential national Open Science Strategy in Austria. The document builds on the diverse expertise of the authors (academia, administration, library and archive, information technology, science policy, funding system, etc.) and reflects their personal experiences and opinions.