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Published online 25 March 2009 | Nature 458, 391 (2009) | doi:10.1038/458391a

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UK funding ban sparks protests

EPSRC slammed for excluding some grant applicants.

Richard Van Noorden

British scientists are campaigning against a plan to bar hundreds of unsuccessful grant applicants from making funding bids in the following year.

The rule, announced by the government's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on 12 March, aims to reduce the pressure on an overloaded system that currently peer reviews all grant applications.

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  • There is a related Nature News story with some very good comments, published online 19 March, here: http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090319/full/news.2009.177.html There is also related discussion at Nature Network, here: http://network.nature.com/people/kjh2/blog/2009/03/22/pressures-on-peer-review-epsrc

    • 27 Mar, 2009
    • Posted by: Maxine Clarke