How FAIR Data Are Helping to Build Trust in Science
The FAIR guidelines laid a solid foundation for ensuring data accessibility and reproducibility. A decade on, researchers are thinking beyond them.
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UNESCO Launches Open-Source Platform to Advance Global Open Science
UNESCO Launches Open-Source Platform to Advance Global Open Science
UNESCO has officially launched its new Open Science Platform, an open-source resource designed to improve access to UNESCO-supported research and help countries monitor progress towards implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.
Open Science Retreat Insights: Can Open Science Survive Authoritarianism and Geopolitical Tension?
Open Science Retreat Insights: Can Open Science Survive Authoritarianism and Geopolitical Tension?
Authoritarian tendencies, geopolitical conflicts, and growing concerns about research security are putting Open Science under increasing and unprecedented pressure. At the 10th Open Science Retreat, international experts and practitioners discussed how open research can remain resilient in times of such crises.
New Rules for Federal Research Grants Will Limit Their Reach and Leave US Research Isolated
New Rules for Federal Research Grants Will Limit Their Reach and Leave US Research Isolated
A proposed overhaul of US federal grant rules has been debated mainly as a fight over political control of science. But, Rob Johnson argues, it would also reshape how publicly funded research is communicated and shared across borders, with consequences far beyond the United States.
A Successful Open Access Book Mandate Requires Infrastructure Not Compliance
A Successful Open Access Book Mandate Requires Infrastructure Not Compliance
An open access book mandate is one Research Excellence Framework (REF) cycle away. If implemented, research funders should focus on enabling infrastructure rather than compliance.
Funding Radar: €160,000 for Open Science Policy Research
The Global Research Initiative on Open Science has opened its first call for projects that synthesise evidence for policy.
From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing?
From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing?
The preprint movement, once seen as a pragmatic, low-cost, researcher-driven route to openness, now faces its own moment of uncertainty.
What AI Asks of Open Access
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy - open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes - matter more than ever.
Research Integrity is Locked into an Arms Race with Agentic AI Slop
Research Integrity is Locked into an Arms Race with Agentic AI Slop
Advances in agentic AI combined with increasingly large reserves of openly accessibly and machine-readable data are creating a perfect storm for the mass-production of AI authored research papers.
Switzerland Hosts 'CERN of Semiconductor Research'
Swiss universities rely on open-source technology to design more efficient chips.
The Economic Benefits of Open Science
Executive summary of an independent study on the economic benefits of open science, showing how sharing research outputs enables reuse, improves efficiency, and supports innovation.
The 2025 State of Open Data Report: Can Technology Push Openness Forward?
The 2025 State of Open Data Report: Can Technology Push Openness Forward?
The report examines the current state of open data as reflected in the 2025 survey results, as well as how attitudes and practices have evolved over the past decade.
Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity
Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? Preliminary evidence suggests that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in papermill articles.
Is ‘Open Science’ Delivering Benefits? Major Study Finds Proof is Sparse
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say.
Open Science Conference 2025: Shaping a Bright Future for Open Science and AI
Open Science Conference 2025: Shaping a Bright Future for Open Science and AI
This year’s Open Science Conference was dedicated entirely to Open Science and AI. Participants examined both the opportunities and the challenges at this intersection, exploring how to responsibly integrate AI into research processes and, conversely, how to build trustworthy AI on trustworthy data.
Funding Agencies Can End Profit-first Science Publishing
Funding Agencies Can End Profit-first Science Publishing
The current relationship between researchers, funders and commercial publishers has created a “drain” – depriving the research system of money, time, trust and control.
Making Funding for Open Science Infrastructure the Norm
While Open Science infrastructures are used a lot, their funding is precarious. TSOSI is a project that aims to improve this situation by making financial support for open infrastructure more visible.
Adoption of Open Research Practices Exceeding Expectations
An investigation by Taylor & Francis and DataSeer has found the uptake of open research practices is exceeding expectations in every area.
As Open As Necessary? Research Security, Academic Freedom and the Geopolitics of Science
As Open As Necessary? Research Security, Academic Freedom and the Geopolitics of Science
Academic freedom and the autonomy of science require protection not only against direct state interference, but also against the more subtle colonisation of research by political and economic systems.
Open Access Days 2025: Goal Achieved - or How Can It (Ever) Be Accomplished?
Open Access Days 2025: Goal Achieved - or How Can It (Ever) Be Accomplished?
What does Open Access promise and what does it cost? How can the crucial importance of open infrastructures be embedded as a collective core task? What could a new concept for financing Diamond Open Access look like? At the Open Access Days 2025, these and other questions were answered in lectures and workshops.
Funding Gaps Stall Africa’s Open Science Progress
Experts call for African-led platforms and pooled funding to protect scientific visibility.
Research Integrity Needs a Kindness Agenda or We Will Lose Early Career Researchers
Research Integrity Needs a Kindness Agenda or We Will Lose Early Career Researchers
Responding to early-career researchers' honest questions with accusations of misconduct is a travesty of open science.
Transparent Peer Review: A New Era for Scientific Publishing
Transparent Peer Review: A New Era for Scientific Publishing
Nature recently announced that they will publish peer review reports with papers. Editors and researchers weigh the impact.
Open Science And A Robust IP Strategy: Life Sciences Can Do Both
The U.S. Government Is Starving Its Own Scientists of Knowledge
Opinion | The National Agricultural Library canceled many journal subscriptions to save costs, leaving USDA staff without access.
Let Unfunded Grant Applications See the Light of Day
Showing which proposals do and don't receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science.
Peter Suber on Science in Danger: "Host Your Open and Uncensored Research in More Than One Place and Preferably More Than One Country."
Peter Suber on Science in Danger: "Host Your Open and Uncensored Research in More Than One Place and Preferably More Than One Country."
In this interview with Peter Suber, the Senior Advisor on Open Access at Harvard Library and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project at the Berkman Klein Center discusses the current alarming developments taking place in the US research landscape – and offers valuable advice to colleagues from abroad.
Can AI Make Research More Open?
Generative AI tools could have a transformative effect on open science by prompting the creation and publication of open datasets.
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