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Whilst Brexit looms more ominously in the background, the next generation of data publishing is moving towards an ever-more collaborative and open place in which researchers can easily choose to make discoveries and data sets available across borders and cultures.
At ScienceOpen, there’s nothing more we like than good news for open science! That’s why we’re happy this week to see ORCID announcing a new partnership with the DFG, the German R…
Towards a collaborative open database of all available information on all clinical trials
The advantages of making scientific data available for further analysis are clear, but it could also enable the trawling of data to find significant, or preferred, results.
Speech by Bjørn Haugstads, State Secretary to the Norwegian Minister of Education and Research
David Matthews examines the approach of ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to profit, user data and open access publishing
The Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science is the key outcome of the two-day conference ‘Open Science.
Interview with Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of the world’s largest online network for scientists
Data Sharing Should Be In Everyone’s Interest
Putting Science 2.0 and Open Science into practice
Open Data Button launched to encourage public sharing of data sets.
The Center for Open Science (COS) is funding the development of an integration between GitLab and the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Jesse Singal argues that the critique by Gilbert et al on the Reproducibility Project isn’t as muscular as it appears at first glance.
Science self-regulation allows detecting more quickly and accurately methodological flaws, fraudulent results and conflicts of interest that may affect the credibility of the discovery. However, it also opens room for disproportionate reactions.
Jisc Digifest hears openness could bring benefits, but some cite plagiarism risks
A review on the open citation advantage, media attention for publicly available research, collaborative possibilities, and special funding opportunities to show how open practices can give researchers a competitive advantage.
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A new initiative published this week outlines how scientists can make a change to open science practices at an individual level.
The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation intends to set-up an Open Science Policy Platform to develop open science policy through a structured discussion with the main stakeholders.
OpenCon 2015 will feature leading speakers from across the Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data movements including Mike Eisen (PLoS) and Jimmy Wales (Founder Wikimedia).
A OECD Report on the benefits and the action required to make open science a reality.
A massive increase in the power of digital technology over the past decade allows us today to publish any article, blog post or tweet in a matter of seconds.
The lead paper describing Homo naledi has been viewed more than 170,000 times in one week.
Are you a champion of open science and open data? Mozilla is seeking researchers eager to advance openness in science and data within their institutions.
"The right to read is the right to mine" : publishers are resisting a change to copyright law that would allow academics to digitally mine published research to help crack intractable problems.
