Dalmeet Singh Chawla Mar 81 minPlan P: Can institutions facilitate open access?Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Oct 19, 20211 minResearchers urge funders and institutions to crack down on false investigatorsThe illegal inclusion of false investigators on grant proposals and research papers should be classified as research misconduct,...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Oct 12, 20211 minQ&A: Australia’s chief scientist proposes a centralized national plan for open accessAustralia lags behind comparable research-intensive countries in Europe in the development of open-access policies, according to a recent...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Oct 12, 20211 minAustralian institutions lag behind on open access adoptionOnly half of Australia’s 40 universities have a formal policy on open access (OA), and the policies are vague and ineffectual, according...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Sep 7, 20211 minHow can institutions and funders help to police questionable research practices?A pilot study at universities and private and public funding agencies in Europe testing a new toolbox of topics aimed at helping...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Aug 20, 20211 minChemists react to UK umbrella funding body’s new open access mandateBritish umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Aug 9, 20211 minScientists at odds on Utrecht University reforms to hiring and promotion criteriaAcademia in the Netherlands has erupted in disagreement over the move by a Dutch university to stop considering journal impact factors...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla May 6, 20211 minSwiss funder draws lots to make grant decisionsThe Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) , Switzerland’s largest government research-funding agency, has started using a...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Apr 23, 20211 minPhysicists guardedly optimistic about UK’s new DARPA-like funding agencyPhysicists are cautiously optimistic about a new DARPA-like funding agency the UK is creating. Called the Advanced Research and Invention...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Mar 4, 20211 minDetails on science funding scarce in latest UK budgetExperts in science and research funding have given a tepid welcome to the budget announced by Rishi Sunak, the UK’s chancellor of the...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Feb 23, 20211 minUK will have new ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research funding agency in 2022The UK government will launch a new grant funding agency in 2022 aimed specifically at funding high-risk science and breakthroughs. The...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Feb 9, 20211 minUK funding agency hack could be ‘legally and intellectually significant’A recent hack of systems of the umbrella grant funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has rattled researchers but details of...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Jan 20, 20211 minZoom fatigue saps grant reviewers’ attentionGrant reviewers for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) report shorter attention spans and lower engagement during video...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Mar 13, 20201 minBig increase in research funding promised for UKThe UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a boost to public funding for research and development, leaving many...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Feb 14, 20201 minThey Wanted Research Funding, So They Entered the LotteryA few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Jan 30, 20201 minOnline platform allows researchers to claim credit for grant peer reviewPublons, a website that allows peer reviewers to claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review....
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Oct 15, 20191 minThousands of grant peer reviewers share concerns in global surveyResearchers spend around ten days every year reviewing other academics’ funding proposals, according to the largest ever survey of grant...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Oct 1, 20191 minResearch on research gains steamThe use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Jun 28, 20191 minConcerns remain over European open-access proposalOn 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Apr 18, 20191 minStudy quantifies the growing traction of open accessResearchers worldwide are taking an average of 472 days less to post their studies in online repositories due to mandates from research...