International collaboration is a rapidly growing aspect of university research and a priority of research funding agencies. This article investigates the rationales that underlie Canadian federal research councils' support of international research collaborations. Such support has deep roots in Canadian science and technology policy but has taken…

Does the public trust science? Scientists? Scientific organizations? What roles do trust and the lack of trust play in public debates about how science can be used to address such societal concerns as childhood vaccination, cancer screening, and a warming planet? What could happen if social trust in science or scientists faded? These types of…

Criticizes a Canadian Senate proposal to create a central planning authority, under government direction, to direct the nature of scientific research. It is not within the competence of science administrators to predict the utility of basic research. (AL)

Outlines the history of direct and indirect government support for science in Australia, the formulation of science policy, and the role of scientific advisors to the federal government. (AL)

Reviews the problems that have confronted science and government in the past and present. Includes organizational responses, the role of science in industrialization, and the problems of science in a small country. (AL)

Expresses the opinions of several successful research scientists towards research. All agree that, while the thrill of discovery is essential to science, excitement competes increasingly with the frustrations of big science. There is a belief that the spirit of science is thwarted by activities such as grantsmanship games. (MA)

The purpose of the study is to obtain as much relevant information as possible concerning the functioning of page charges for the publication of scientific papers and to present this information in a form useful to both government agencies and the scientific community. The procedure developed for the study required the collection of information…

Presents the views of the chairman of the group of scientists that prepared the preliminary proposal on DNA guidelines for the 1975 Asilomar Conference. Examples and illustrations are used to argue that stronger and tighter controls than those outlined in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines are needed. (CS)

Discusses the role and resources of planetary astronomy in planetary exploration. Identifies the categories of support made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and reviews the impacts of these findings on planetary researches. Analyzes the publishing habits of American astronomers. (ML)

Outlines the history of the relationships for government support for basic and applied science in Britain and describes likely future developments. Considers the possibilities for maintenance of scientists' independence. (AL)

Discusses the present state of governmental support for basic scientific research and for technological advancement. Explores various sources of advice for the coordination and integration at the federal level in technological-social-economic-political interactions. (CS)

The report is part of a continuing study by the committee of the ways in which the Federal Government can best assure the strength and progress of American science. The committee concludes that the process of basic scientific research and the process of graduate education in universities must be viewed as an integrated task if the nation is to…

Cites a National Science Foundation (NSF) Report, "Science and Technology: Annual Report to the Congress," for evidence that the United States remains the major technological power in the world. (CP)

Reviews the progress of scientific knowledge in the United States from its beginning including the long-term value of "basic" versus "applied" science. (Author/RK)

Discusses proposed governmental science policy reforms, including administrative reforms of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, French equivalent to National Science Foundation. Indicates junior scientists, lab assistants, and technicians will be included in decision making and scientists will be barred from heading research terms for…