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Agency would get a huge technology research arm and a new name.

How to stand out in the fast-growing throng.

Join this month's webinar to hear what could be done to reform the conference experience for both organisers and participants.

How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth.

It looks as though preprints are here to stay in biomedicine - but are there too many of them?

swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and Open Access publishing in Switzerland.

While Moderna blitzed the media, it revealed very little information - and most of what it did disclose were words, not data.

VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions.

There will be no face-to-face lectures in the next academic year due to coronavirus, the university says.

Community labs want to make everything from insulin to prostheses. Will traditional scientists accept their efforts?

Data sharing and COVID-19- the pandemic is changing the way scientists work and talk to each other. The Early Career Researchers advisory board at Wellcome Open Research discuss how COVID-19 is changing science.

From July 2022 only publishers who adhere to the newly approved Plan S price transparency frameworks will be eligible to access funds from cOAlition S members.

In collaboration with SPARC Europe, a survey to map Open Access (OA) and Open Science (OS) infrastructure across Europe was launched. The aim is to establish a core understanding of Europe's current field of Open resources and gain insight into their usage, durability, and adherence to core open principles and standards.

Business Secretary Alok Sharma has announced that Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS will join UK Research and Innovation as its new Chief Executive. She will succeed Sir Mark Walport who announced in September last year that he would retire in 2020. Professor Leyser will start her new role on Monday June 29.

The hunt is on for better ways to collect and search pandemic studies

Many female academics say juggling their career with coronavirus childcare is overwhelming.

Current and former moderators will all be paid a minimum of $1,000. Selena Scola filed the case in California.

An immunization shot is still in development, but debate over who gets priority has already begun.

New initiative couples rapid release of new results with expert review.

Academic research is fundamental to learn more about the nature of the coronavirus.

If you are an early career scientist looking for ways to get involved with advocacy, or a faculty member who wants to engage your students in the role of science in democracy, the Science for Public Good Fund is for you.

A review of some of the main characteristics that have made the ERC into the successful funding organisation that it is

Trump is shrugging off warnings by scientists that the easing restrictions taking place across the country could cause tens of thousands of death.

We have developed an analysis pipeline to facilitate real-time mutation tracking in SARS-CoV-2, focusing initially on the Spike (S) protein because it mediates infection of human cells and is the target of most vaccine strategies and antibody-based therapeutics.

In this COVID-19 pandemic, emerging popular refrains like ‘we’re all in this together’ and ‘we will come through this together’
echo across media. But who is this ‘we’?

Explanation of the differences between confirmatory and exploratory research and the dangers of confusing the two concepts. 

Poll finds 64% of voters more likely to listen to expert advice as 51% say they have seen fake news about virus

The John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science recognises the work of individuals who promote science and evidence, advancing the public discussion around difficult topics despite challenges or hostility.

This article describes an international community-based effort to create metadata guiding principles for adopting and using richer metadata and advancing its application in scholarly communications. These principles can facilitate the dissemination, discoverability and use/reuse of many types of research and scholarly outputs. While much work remains to be done, these principles serve as a starting point for the evolution of processes that span communities including publishers, researchers, scholars, authors and other creators, librarians, curators, custodians, and consumers of scholarly works.These aspirational Metadata 2020 Principles are designed to encompass the needs of our entire community while ensuring thoughtful, purposeful, and reusable metadata resources. They provide a framework for all of us to be good metadata citizens. They also provide a foundation for considering related work from Metadata 2020 and must be interpreted within the legal and practical context in which we operate. They are intended to guide the broadest possible cross-section of our community in improving research communications, publishing, and discoverability.

Pandemics like COVID-19 call into question the benefit of news embargoes, but do reporters use the additional time to digest findings and consult experts unrelated to the study?