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The publisher Elsevier has disassociated itself from an article by a trade association it belongs to that condemns proposed open-access mandates in several US states.

PhDs are valuable political capital in Germany, Eastern Europe and beyond, but the currency has been devalued by a string of high-profile plagiarism cases at the very heart of government. Paul Jump reports

But investigation finds that practice ‘did not always meet’ expected standards

A new grouping of southeast institutions accounts for a third of EPSRC-funded work. Paul Jump reports

Critic says Nature Materials is breaking its own rules

The University of Oxford professor of tropical medicine and global health has been named as the new director of the Wellcome Trust.

Cardiff calls time on anonymous allegations of past misconduct in dean’s lab. Paul Jump reports

Exceptions in the UK funding councils’ open access policy will be made for researchers hired from abroad, the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s head of research has pledged.

Strikers are fighting ‘charter for managerial radicalism’, says academic

Cardiff University’s dean of medicine has been cleared of research misconduct but the institution has found a former member of his lab guilty of image falsification in four papers.

Research Councils UK has removed from its guidance on its open-access policy an exhortation for institutions and authors to make sure a “proper market in article fees” operates.