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China’s science and education ministries have released a new document aimed at improving the research landscape of the country.  
cOAlition S announces price transparency rules for publishers that will come into effect in July 2022.
Springer Nature and ResearchGate have rolled out the second phase of their open access pilot. Four times more Springer Nature articles will be uploaded on authors’…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded three researchers with the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution…
The UGC, India's higher education regulatory and funding agency, has recently removed hundreds of bogus journals from its white list, as a part of its ongoing efforts to…
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize “for its work to draw…
The Lasker Foundation announced the winners of the Lasker Awards for 2017. The Lasker Awards are one of the most prestigious awards in medicine. There is a lot of buzz…
Late last month, North Korea vowed to shut down its nuclear test site, and the diplomatic talks that followed this move hinted at improved inter-Korea relations. These…
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is the first European university, and the second university worldwide, to adopt a research code to counter 'ethics dumping.'
University of California (UC) and Public Library of Science (PLOS) sign an open-access (OA) agreement to make it easier for the UC's researchers to publish in PLOS…