Medical sources in the city confirm rate of infection, but say they have been told not to release the full picture to the public.

Swiss government orders inquiry after revelations Crypto AG was owned and operated by US and German intelligence.

The present outbreak of lower respiratory tract infections, including respiratory distress syndrome, is the third spillover, in only two decades, of an animal coronavirus to humans resulting in a major epidemic.

The measurements used to make the original argument made very little sense.

Altmetrics have been an important topic in the context of open science for some time.

The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.

White House proposes big cuts to NIH, DOE, NASA and other programs

This work aims to solve accessibility problems related to the protection of personal data in the digital era and to achieve a responsible access to and responsible use of health data. We strongly suggest associating each data set with FAIR metadata describing both the type of data collected and the accessibility conditions by considering data protection obligations and ethical and regulatory requirements.

Curtin University researchers will help create a new international data trust to improve the measurement and analysis of open-access (OA) books.

Modelers are trying to forecast how the virus will move, but they need better data.

Most of the world's supply of masks and respirators comes from China, and a supply chain gap poses a risk to everyday health care beyond the viral epidemic.

The potentially illegal archive is a 'moral imperative,' said one organizer.

Academics say case of Dr Asiya Islam, turned down after 10 years in UK, gives the lie to assurances Britain is open to experts.

Experts see two scenarios: 2019-nCoV becomes like the four little-known coronaviruses already endemic in people, or it becomes like the seasonal flu.

A traveler to Germany from China who infected another person did feel ill, contradicting New England Journal of Medicine report.

Scientists are rapidly posting findings about the new coronavirus outbreak online, accelerating the speed of scientific discoveries - and of misinformation.

The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program launches its Call for Applications 2020.

On the day that the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, higher education and research organisations from across the UK and Europe have reaffirmed their commitment to working together, and are calling on their respective governments to make this a priority.

On the day of the UK leaving the EU, 36 research and higher education organisations from across Europe published a joint statement stressing that they “wish to continue working together”, and called for the UK to fully participate in future EU R&D and education programmes.

The OA Switchboard aims to facilitate the fulfilment of open access strategies across business models, policies and agreements, and reduce complexity for all relevant stakeholders.