The new European Commission was sworn in a couple of weeks ago, several months late owing to the time it took for the appointees to be approved by the European Parliament.…
‘Impact’ has been the word of the year in higher education research policy - Impact Plans, Impact Assessment, Impact Pilots. As funding cuts loom, the Treasury is looking to justify the investment of tax-payers’ money in research.…
This project will provide an analysis of the usage and impact of a number of research data centres, representing a cross-section of research disciplines in the UK.…
The RIN is working on a project to set up additional information, guidance and resources on its website to support key stakeholders in their contributions to the scholarly communications process, particularly in relation to policy.…
Sobering news from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which points to less than rosy prospects for recruitment into the science sector of the economy in a report published this week.…
Here we go again.…
The RIN and Universities UK have published new detailed and practical guidance for all those who deal with the arrangements for paying for open access publication charges. News release - 21 April 2009 …
Research data are fast being recognised as valuable resources in their own right, as opposed to being secondary to scholarly outputs such as a journal articles.…
Much has been made, following the RAE2008 announcement at the end of last year, about the challenge of funding the aspirations of the large research-intensive institutions (Russell Group et al) as well as the ambitions of the smaller HEIs with pockets …
Though academic/research misconduct is rare, a report by Sandra Titus in Nature, found that almost 9% of respondents had witnesses some form of scientific misconduct in the past three years, and 37% of those were unreported.…
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