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The incoming president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, nominated Bulgaria's Mariya Gabriel to take charge of research, innovation and education, but has scotched research from the name of the brief for the first time, relabelling it the 'Innovation and Youth' portfolio.
Sen. Maria Cantwell calls for committee hearings on whether Trump administration is trying to "undermine science."
The acting chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) is investigating whether the agency's response to President Trump's claims about Hurricane Dorian constituted a violation of policies and ethics.
The Government of the Netherlands has launched a funding drive to support culture and heritage sectors, as well as in science and innovation.
The UK is focusing on international partnerships and ground-breaking sector deals in order to remain a global leader in science
This paper is rather a profound hermeneutic enunciation putting into question our present understanding of psychopathy. It further articulates, in complement, a novel theoretical and methodological conceptualisation for a hermeneutic psychological science.
With this compendium, the Hamburg Open Science Programme aims to provide practical support for practitioners of open science and to help remove existing obstacles on the way to greater transparency in science.
International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and Digital Science have joined forces to make Dimensions and Altmetric data available to ISSI members at scale, and at no cost for scientometric research purposes.
Researchers at Eawag have been awarded the 3R Swiss Competence Centre award for their outstanding research work representing a milestone in the promotion of alternatives to animal experiments.
Interim head of MIT Anthropology explains the plan's vision and challenges, plus progress made at an historic MIT workshop.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) announce they are the first of the United Nations agencies to join COAlition S. This commitment will ensure that all WHO and TDS supported health research will be free to read online on the day it is published.
This paper provides an introduction to open science and related reforms in the form of an annotated reading list of seven peer-reviewed articles.
Springer Nature has reached an open access publishing deal with 700 German research universities, but it faces some pushback.
cOAlition S announces that Johan Rooryck, Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University, has been appointed as its Open Access Champion.
A key dimension of our current era is Big Data, the rapid rise in produced data and information; a key frustration is that we are nonetheless living in an age of ignorance, as the real knowledge and understanding of people does not seem to be substantially increasing. This development has critical consequences.
Researchers have tried for at least 200 years to change academia and they have all failed, claims opinion piece.
Comment on a Times Higher Education on a strange and awkward piece from a representative of Elsevier.
A call for people who would like to join a collaborative process to further explore and write the systematic literature review on “Teaching Open Science“.
We reviewed current recommendations for reproducible research and translated them into criteria for assessing the reproducibility of articles in the field of geographic information science (GIScience). Results from the author feedback indicate that although authors support the concept of performing reproducible research, the incentives for doing this in practice are too small. Therefore, we propose concrete actions for individual researchers and the GIScience conference series to improve transparency and reproducibility.
Which factors have a strong systemic influence on the digitisation of higher education? Which can be influenced politically? The authors look at areas of action related to open science and discuss the extent to which future scenarios such as “disruption" can endanger university locations.
Over the last year, millions of school climate strikers have been leaving their classrooms every Friday. Young people have woken up much of the world, and now they are asking for everyone else to join them in action.
Ellen Hazelkorn takes a look at the accuracy of university rankings from an international perspective.
A growing chorus of researchers wants to study gun violence in the U.S. as a public health issue, similar to the way they have tracked automobile or workplace safety for decades.
A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms catalogs and analyzes all available open-source software for publishing and warns that open publishing must grapple with the dual challenges of siloed development and organization of the community-owned ecosystem
Making decisions before conducting analyses requires practice. Respecting both what was planned and what actually happened requires good judgment and humility in making claims. With the accelerating adoption of preregistration, we now face the challenge of figuring out how to use this methodology to its fullest potential.
When so many email addresses on journal articles don't work, we have a problem.
For decades, the medical field has dismissed female health concerns. Women have been told that they’re imagining signs of heart attacks and other life-threatening ailments and had few resources devoted to researching their medical problems, but, at last, that seems to be changing.
