Antechinus: Research-Led Publishing

Researcher-Led Publishing Ubiquity Press is an open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data operating a highly cost-efficient model that makes quality open access publishing affordable for everyone.

Worth a Look: Tamera – School and Research Station for a Future without War — a Realistic Utopia

Tamera is a School and Research Station for Realistic Utopia The project was founded in Germany in 1978. In 1995 it moved to Portugal. Today 170 people live and work on a property of 330 acres. The founding thought was to develop a non-violent life model for cooperation between human being, animal and nature. Soon it …

Ty Simpson : Monsanto Closing 3 Research Centers, Cutting 2,600 Jobs

Monsanto Reports the Closing of 3 Research and Development Centers After announcing a 2,600 job cut Following news made just weeks ago about Monsanto slashing 2,600 jobs and ending $3 billion to buy back shares from investors, the biotech giant is now reporting that it will be closing 3 research and development centers in order to cut …

Gabriele Bammer: Global Research Council Seeks to Focus on Inter-, Multi-, Trans- Cross-, Post-Disciplinary Endeavors

Distinguishing between multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinarity – ‘theological’ hair-splitting or essential categorisation? In a recent special issue of the journal Nature on interdisciplinarity (17 September 2015, p313-315), Rick Rylance   . . .   introduced a current project of the Global Research Council, which is comprised of the heads of science and engineering funding agencies …

Berto Jongman: OSCAR – Open Source Communications, Analytics and Research Development Centre (UK)

Police, uni study of social media The National Counter Terrorism Command, UK police forces and academia are behind an Open Source Communications, Analytics and Research (OSCAR) Development Centre. Co-ordinated through Cardiff University’s Universities’ Police Science Institute (UPSI), the new centre will bring together academics and police practitioners to develop a research evidence base on the …