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To help us better understand and meet the needs of our current and future users, we invite you to complete this survey of what you know about ORCID, whether - and if so, how - you currently use ORCID and your experiences of doing so, what’s working and what isn’t, and more.

The postdoctoral community is an essential component of the academic and scientific workforce, but a lack of data about this community has made it difficult to develop policies to address concerns about salaries, working conditions, diversity and career development, and to evaluate the impact of existing policies. A recent study aims to address this gap.

Male post-docs and PhD candidates work more than their female colleagues, but female professors work the most hours of all, according to the latest time use survey.

The Global State of Peer Review is one of the largest ever studies into the practice of scholarly peer review around the world focusing on four questions: 1. Who is doing the review? 2. How efficient is the peer review process? 3. What do we know about peer review quality? 4. What does the future hold?

A survey suggests U.S. government scientists views are hard to pigeonhole and fall short of documenting widespread unhappiness with the Trump administration.

Provided that adequate security safeguards were in place, most participants were willing to share their data for a wide range of uses.

European Commission data and case studies covering access to scientific publications. Bibliometric data as well as well as data on the policies of journals and funders are available.

Feedback on Rules of Participation from all the relevant stakeholders is essential for the European Open Science Cloud.

A survey to better understand funder perspectives with respect to supporting open infrastructure shows that beyond open access, however, there is very little consensus on other open activities.

A new study of 728 campaigns from a crowdfunding platform finds that women and students tend to do better.

Rates of anxiety and depression among PhD and master’s students exceed those in general public.

Around half of researchers already publish their work with open access, according to a comprehensive survey carried out by the Main Library of the University of Zurich. Besides a number of positive results, the survey also revealed a need for more information.

Workplace culture drives turnover, significantly affecting the retention of underrepresented groups, and costing the industry more than $16 billion each year.

Institutions have made little progress against the misuse of research metrics when hiring and promoting academics.

Times Higher Education’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships and family around their ever-growing workloads.

The Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) 2018 have just been released by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The SEI are released every two years and provide high-quality quantitative data on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. These statistics aid in the understanding of the current context of the science and engineering fields and objectively inform the development of future policies.

The results of the latest public opinion survey undertaken by Research!America showed that 67% of respondents had a positive image of science and indeed thought that public policy should be based on the best science available.

Survey examines attitudes of U.S. researchers.

A survey shows specific traits are critical to women’s success.

Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within development research projects.

Teaching scientists foundational computing skills.

We share what 50 Nobel prizewinners think about issues facing science, universities and the world, from populist politics and researcher mobility, to artificial intelligence and threats to humankind

Life scientists told us whether they would like to share and read computationally reproducible research articles.

39 percent reported having been verbally harassed and 9 percent said they had suffered physical harassment at work.

We are delighted to announce the launch of our 2017 survey asking researchers about their use of and attitudes to data, and in particular open data. Take the survey.