In a world with ever-growing scientific literature, meaningful classifications are vital to keep on top of the latest results. In this Comment, historian and sociologist Phillip Roth traces the histor...

The open movement claims to include all disciplines. But it is profoundly shaped by the institution of science, leaving humanities researchers at risk.

Alex Csiszar (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, USA)

This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present-day debat...

Join us for a fantastic lecture by Prof Sadiah Qureshi with an introduction by Helen MacDonald at the Babbage Lecture Theatre in Cambridge!

This project aims to understand the conceptualisation of open in the open access movement and the development of open research infrastructure from a transnational perspective by identifying boundaries...

Fifty dollars for STEM, five cents for citizenship—that’s how America apportions its education dollars. Our beleaguered universities must redress the balance—helping the country and themselves.

BALTIMORE—After an exhaustive review of financial records from the present back to the cuneiform ledgers of ancient Mesopotamia, economists at Johns Hopkins University released a report Wednesday indi...

RESSH2025 conference of the international association ENRESSH (European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH) is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. It brings together specialists o...

Call for papers: Special Issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences ​​Abstract submission deadline: 30 January 2025 In recent years, research production and communication in the bio...

"In response to that article, I was getting hate mail. I was getting attacked. I thought, these people have a script. This is a story that people need to understand. This isn't just something of acade...

Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the University Library at the University of Cambridge.