Memo to Research Funders: If You Want Open Science, Try Harder
Kamila Markram, head of open science platform Frontiers, argues research funders must do much more to speed openness in science.
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Kamila Markram, head of open science platform Frontiers, argues research funders must do much more to speed openness in science.
Günther Oettinger says research should be the only programme spared spending cuts as the EU weighs how to make up for losing the UK’s €11B per annum contribution.
The Commission wants to knit existing data infrastructures into a shared pan European resource.
EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas praises scientists for finding their voice.
The days of open science have arrived and it is time to move from pay-to-read to free-to-read, says EU's R&D Commissioner. But publishers want to keep their subscriptions.
The EU Commission is canvassing views on whether the process of assessing research projects should be more open to public eyes.
Webcasts of the 2016 Science|Business Horizon2020 conference: will its overall, annual budget be cut in this year's EU funding review?
Intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn is expected.
Researchers can still operate by the rules and norms of science, but under Horizon 2020 they have - with the exception of the ERC - no autonomy to decide what science they do.