Announcing the rOpenSci Fellowships Program
Supporting efforts to help do better science, build community around projects or develop tools.
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Open Academic Search
A working group aiming to advance scientific research and discovery, promote technology that assists the scientific and academic communities, and make research available worldwide for the good of all humanity.
Open Science Can Save the Planet
Frontiers’ CEO, Kamila Markram, makes a case for why open science is the key to innovation, economic growth and solutions to a sustainable future.
Less than 5 Years to Build the European Open Science Cloud
There are decades of lessons learnt and resources to build upon … where does the EOSCpilot project fit in?
The Scholarly Commons
How to make research open and participatory for anyone, anywhere.
Metrics for Openness
The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research.
Reflections on Open Research – a PI's Perspective
Interviewing Dr David Savage.
Don't Let Europe's Open-Science Dream Drift
Now that the major players have agreed to the giant European Open Science Cloud, it’s time to get the project moving.
Don’t Let Europe’s Open-Science Dream Drift
Now that the major players have agreed to the giant European Open Science Cloud, it’s time to get the project moving.
Open by Default?
How can we make the most of open practices in research, education and skills?
Open Science Fair 2017
Open Science Fair 2017 is having its first opening international conference in Athens, Greece, 6-8 September 2017.
National Research Agenda
Dutch agenda presenting 140 overarching scientific questions as a result of a unique bottom-up initiative, driven by the general public and a vast number of organisations in the Netherlands.
Case Study on Researcher Strategies Against Fear of Scooping in the Context of Open Science
Case Study on Researcher Strategies Against Fear of Scooping in the Context of Open Science
Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.
Journal Editors Open Up About Open Science
In May 2017, we sat down with ECS journal editors Robert Savinell and Dennis Hess at the 231st ECS Meeting.
New Science Data-Sharing Rules Are Two Scoops of Disappointment
The rules fail to make data sharing mandatory for papers to be published, which raises the prospect that some authors might decide to ignore the hint.
What Is It? (And Why Some Researchers Want It)
There is a movement within the scientific community that asks for greater collaboration between research teams. The idea is that with greater access to information, more people working separately on the same problems can solve them more efficiently and with the greatest transparency.
Pilot Programme Encourages Researchers to Share the Code
New project, partly designed by a University of Cambridge researcher, aims to improve transparency in science by sharing ‘how the sausage is made’.
Open Data and Open Science Policies Across Europe
A SPARC analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies across Europe.
Research Transparency: 5 Questions About Open Science Answered
Partly in response to the so-called 'reproducibility crisis' in science, researchers are embracing a set of practices that aim to make the whole endeavor more transparent, more reliable – and better.
We Can Shift Academic Culture Through Publishing Choices
Choices researchers can make to stop exploiting themselves and discriminating against others.
OpenCon 2017 to Be Held in Berlin, Germany on November 11-13
Empowering the Next Generation to Advance Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.
Too Much Talk, Too Little Action
Starting this year, I will stop traveling to any speaking engagements on open science (or, more generally, infrastructure reform), as long as these events do not entail a clear goal for action.
Wellcome Open Research Author Survey Results
Author survey shows that publication speed and the ability to share a variety of research outputs are the primary reasons why authors publish on the Wellcome Open Research publishing platform.
Announcing the Open Science Fair 2017
The Open Science FAIR 2017 is proud to hold its inaugural international conference on all topics related to Open Science during 6-8 September, Athens.
Community Projects Directory
Want to get involved with an Open project but don’t know where to start? Check out the list of awesome projects.
Survey on Open Peer Review
The results of a cross-disciplinary survey show that the majority of respondents are in favour of Open Peer Review becoming mainstream scholarly practice, as they also are for other areas of Open Science, like Open Access and Open Data.
In the Age of Trump, Open Science Is Crucial
With funding cuts to major science agencies looming, it is now more important than ever for researchers to embrace transparency and data sharing.
An Online Course on Open Science
An open introductory course into the practices of Open Science explains how to make the most of the existing outputs of open research.
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