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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.
A not-for-profit organisation whose activities, assets and profits are dedicated to the purpose of providing benefit to the scientific community.
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.
On November 14-16, 2015 in Brussels, OpenCon 2015 will feature leading speakers from across the Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data movements.
On June 5 and 6, 2015, Opendata.ch invites researchers and experts, designers, developers, journalists and all people who would like to embrace experimentation with data to participate in our hackdays in Zurich and Lausanne.
This glossary is designed to to be a resource to help inform people about the culture of ‘open scholarship’.
[24]This report presents the key findings, the main areas of discussion and the policy recommendations emerging from the consultation.
Science 2.0 is a new approach to science that uses information-sharing and collaboration made possible by network technologies. This consultation gathers the opinions of a broad sample of interested parties from across the EU research landscape.
Institutional public access plans for Open Science.
For a second year running, rOpenSci is excited to announce another R unconference in March 2015 at GitHub's headquarters in San Francisco.
We propose steps to help increase the transparency of the scientific method and the reproducibility of research results.
A startup enables researchers to tap labs worldwide to conduct experiments on their behalf
Open science is the concept of opening up all aspects of scientific research, to allow others to follow the process.
There's a lot that gets done that goes unrecognized. That unrecognized work can not only be crucial for getting to the actual research outcome put forward in the form of publications, but also for reflecting important skills gained.
The research conducted using federal funds is driven - and distorted - by the academic publishing model.
