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There is an important point here: we simply can’t build a meaningfully open scholarly infrastructure that is dependent on the whims of corporations. It can’t be done.
The broad response was encouraging for science advocates and underscores the need to continue to push for open policies open.
Initiative for Open Citations makes citation data free for all
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.
PLOS now partners directly with protocols.io to provide authors better ways to share methodological details about their work, practical tools to reduce wasted research efforts and persistent, citable identifiers for laboratory methods.
Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own.
Discovering that there is a way to get out from the situation which keeps us locked into the legacy publishing system.
OpenTrials is an open database for clinical trials developed by Open Knowledge International to help researchers and patients get useful information from clinical trial materials.
The scope of open science and the variety of actors involved make it not realistic, and even counterproductive, to expect there to be, now or in the future, one definition of open science that fits all.
Responsible metrics and evaluation for open science.
Similarities and differences in Open Data and Open Science policies between European nations.
Figures, HackScience and HipDynamics, three companies aiming to disrupt the academic space.
An open access repository of science methods and collaborative research platform.
The Nature journals continue journey towards greater rigour.
The Commission wants to knit existing data infrastructures into a shared pan European resource.
The EOSCpilot project will support the first phase in the development of the European Open Science Cloud.
Working closely with Crossref, Springer Nature will make the metadata for reference lists available across all academic books and owned journals.
Springer Nature becomes the largest academic publisher to open up reference lists to advance data discovery and reuse, effective as of today. Working closely
Stencila, an app for creating and viewing data-driven reproducible publications.
A tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Basel to track Zika, Ebola and other viral disease outbreaks in real time.
The motto being "as open as possible, as closed as necessary".
GitHub just released a massive guide to contributing to open source.
Catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of Open Science!
A plan setting out what the Dutch are already doing and what they plan to do to grasp the opportunities and at the same time make science even more accessible to others.
Let’s build a MOOC to teach Open Science! Here’s a draft framework already in place, which anyone can contribute to.
An open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data.
Letter from the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science informing the House of Representatives of the progress made in the field of open science.
Open-science advocate says journals should be clearer to peer-reviewers about terms and conditions.
