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The Parliament voted in favor of almost all provisions that extend more rights to the establishment copyright industries while failing to protect users and new creators online.
Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, which represents the organisations most directly affected financially, was one voice of caution, saying it is "vital" that researchers have the freedom to publish where they choose.
Researchers gain more access to hi-tech research tool, but data start-ups warn the narrow rules create "a backseat for Europe's innovators".
The Ad Council - along with G.E., Google, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon - is trying to encourage girls ages 11 to 15 to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math.
Major European countries are mandating that publicly-funded research should appear only in open-access journals.
Scientists in emerging economies respond fastest to peer review invitations but are invited least.
One of the UK's leading female astronomers is to donate her GBP2.3M winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers.
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will donate the money to help students underrepresented in physics.
Bold move is intended to trigger open-access tipping point.
Paywall, a documentary about the open-access movement, makes its debut and will be available online.
The tool, called Google Dataset Search, should help researchers to find the data they need more easily.
Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published.
In this Perspective, a group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, announce plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies' research funding.
The 11 national research funding organisations that form cOAlition S have agreed to implement the 10 principles of Plan S in a coordinated way, together with the European Commission including the ERC. Other research funders from across the world, both public and private, are invited to join cOAlition S.
European Medicines Agency ends pharma evaluations work and moves contracts to bloc.
Experts are good at betting which scientific experiments can replicate despite some studies not being repeatable.
The Serbian Government has adopted a national policy mandating open access (OA) to all publications resulting from publicly-funded research in Serbia. The policy, titled the Open Science Platform, was introduced by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MESTD), the main funder for research in Serbia, in July 2018. EIFL welcomes the adoption of the policy, which makes a major contribution to improving visibility and discoverability of Serbian research outputs.
Open letter signed by many journals supporting the idea that publishing peer review reports would benefit the research community by increasing transparency of the assessment process.
Researchers replicated 62% of social-behaviour findings published in Science and Nature - a result matched almost exactly by a prediction market.
Observation confirms, yet again, a prediction of physicists' standard model.
Scientists and the design of experiments under scrutiny after a major project fails to reproduce results of high profile studies.
Celebrating Science Booster - Switzerland's only platform for science crowdfunding.
Springer Nature announced a collaboration with Watson Health to expand and enhance the integration of valuable genomics.
25 technologists, activists, and scientists will spend the next 10 to 12 months creating a more secure, inclusive, and decentralized internet.
When following a link to the official version of a scholarly article, Wikipedia readers are twice as likely to hit a paywall than one they can freely read.
