The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced its decision to join cOAlition S and back Plan S, an initiative by a group of research funding organizations and charitable funders to make research publications open access (Read More
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As a grad student with an invisible chronic illness, I have both the luxury and the misfortune of being able to blend in with everyone else. I go to the same classes. I sit in Read More
Editage’s parent company, Cactus Communications, a global scholarly, medical communication and technology solutions company, launched PubSURE–the first marketplace that brings together researchers and journals across all STEM and HSS disciplines to make global Read More
We are at the end of an exciting month marked by interesting and thought-provoking discussions in academia. If, however, you were unable to keep a tab on the goings-on in scholarly communication and academic publishing Read More
Project DEAL – a consortium of about 700 universities, research institutes, and libraries in Germany – has signed an open access agreement with Springer Nature, one of the world’s leading research publishers. The publish-and-read agreement will allow Read More
Amyloid fibrils are a type of self-assembled proteins/peptides that take on a stacked sheet-like formation. Amyloid fibril aggregates are known to be a cause of several diseases — including Alzheimer’s — and therefore, it is Read More
Brazil’s primary science-funding agency, the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), may discontinue providing scholarships beyond September. The announcement made on August 15 is the latest in line of the budgetary cut declarations Read More
Inflammation is the body’s response to injury or irritation. Although it is technically an “immune response,” acute and chronic inflammation is associated with serious conditions and diseases like sepsis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, Alzheimer’s Read More
Public confidence in scientists has risen in the United States (US), suggests a recent survey by Pew Research Center, Washington D.C. The survey was conducted in the 50 states and Washington D.C. in January 2019. Read More
Up until now, freelancing was widely regarded as a job for specific types of professionals such as developers, writers, illustrators and designers. However, in the last few years, highly skilled knowledge workers have also joined Read More