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Plan P: Can institutions facilitate open access?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Mar 8
  • 1 min

Plan 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...
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Researchers urge funders and institutions to crack down on false investigators
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 19, 2021
  • 1 min

Researchers urge funders and institutions to crack down on false investigators

The illegal inclusion of false investigators on grant proposals and research papers should be classified as research misconduct,...
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Q&A: Australia’s chief scientist proposes a centralized national plan for open access
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 12, 2021
  • 1 min

Q&A: Australia’s chief scientist proposes a centralized national plan for open access

Australia lags behind comparable research-intensive countries in Europe in the development of open-access policies, according to a recent...
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Australian institutions lag behind on open access adoption
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 12, 2021
  • 1 min

Australian institutions lag behind on open access adoption

Only half of Australia’s 40 universities have a formal policy on open access (OA), and the policies are vague and ineffectual, according...
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How can institutions and funders help to police questionable research practices?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 7, 2021
  • 1 min

How 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...
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Chemists react to UK umbrella funding body’s new open access mandate
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 20, 2021
  • 1 min

Chemists react to UK umbrella funding body’s new open access mandate

British umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable...
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Scientists at odds on Utrecht University reforms to hiring and promotion criteria
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 9, 2021
  • 1 min

Scientists at odds on Utrecht University reforms to hiring and promotion criteria

Academia in the Netherlands has erupted in disagreement over the move by a Dutch university to stop considering journal impact factors...
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Swiss funder draws lots to make grant decisions
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • May 6, 2021
  • 1 min

Swiss funder draws lots to make grant decisions

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) , Switzerland’s largest government research-funding agency, has started using a...
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Physicists guardedly optimistic about UK’s new DARPA-like funding agency
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 23, 2021
  • 1 min

Physicists guardedly optimistic about UK’s new DARPA-like funding agency

Physicists are cautiously optimistic about a new DARPA-like funding agency the UK is creating. Called the Advanced Research and Invention...
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Details on science funding scarce in latest UK budget
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Mar 4, 2021
  • 1 min

Details on science funding scarce in latest UK budget

Experts in science and research funding have given a tepid welcome to the budget announced by Rishi Sunak, the UK’s chancellor of the...
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UK will have new ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research funding agency in 2022
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 23, 2021
  • 1 min

UK will have new ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research funding agency in 2022

The UK government will launch a new grant funding agency in 2022 aimed specifically at funding high-risk science and breakthroughs. The...
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UK funding agency hack could be ‘legally and intellectually significant’
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 9, 2021
  • 1 min

UK 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...
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Zoom fatigue saps grant reviewers’ attention
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 20, 2021
  • 1 min

Zoom fatigue saps grant reviewers’ attention

Grant reviewers for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) report shorter attention spans and lower engagement during video...
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Big increase in research funding promised for UK
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Mar 13, 2020
  • 1 min

Big increase in research funding promised for UK

The UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a boost to public funding for research and development, leaving many...
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They Wanted Research Funding, So They Entered the Lottery
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 14, 2020
  • 1 min

They Wanted Research Funding, So They Entered the Lottery

A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets...
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Online platform allows researchers to claim credit for grant peer review
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 30, 2020
  • 1 min

Online platform allows researchers to claim credit for grant peer review

Publons, a website that allows peer reviewers to claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review....
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Thousands of grant peer reviewers share concerns in global survey
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 15, 2019
  • 1 min

Thousands of grant peer reviewers share concerns in global survey

Researchers spend around ten days every year reviewing other academics’ funding proposals, according to the largest ever survey of grant...
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Research on research gains steam
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 1, 2019
  • 1 min

Research on research gains steam

The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent...
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Concerns remain over European open-access proposal
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 28, 2019
  • 1 min

Concerns remain over European open-access proposal

On 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to...
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Study quantifies the growing traction of open access
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 18, 2019
  • 1 min

Study quantifies the growing traction of open access

Researchers worldwide are taking an average of 472 days less to post their studies in online repositories due to mandates from research...
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