Eight highly-visible organizations today announced the launch of the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership designed to increase access to research outputs. With nearly $5 billion in combined annual grants conferred, these organizations are committed to using their positions to foster more open sharing of research articles and data.  This openness, the members believe, will accelerate the pace of discovery, reduce information-sharing gaps, encourage innovation, and promote reproducibility.

If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.

Finland aiming to have open access to all scientific publications by 2020.

Two features of peer review subvert the goals of science: reviews are kept secret and reviewers are usually anonymous, argues Jeffrey S. Flier.

Preprints are one step towards an Open Science future.

Vote now for he Open Science Prize, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the US NIH and the HHMI to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit.

Earlier this year, we announced that six teams had made it through to the final of the Open Science Prize. We’re asking you to help us choose the three most impactful and novel prototypes from among the six finalists.

Open publishing platforms that bring grey literature out of the dark promise to save money, reduce duplication and speed communication

Wellcome Open Research provides all Wellcome researchers with a place to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing.

Journal experiments and surveys suggest scientists are coming round to the idea of publishing review reports. A few journals, such as PeerJ, the BMJ and F1000Research, already embrace open peer review in various different forms.

In 2013, we set out to build Mozilla's first open science program with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Over three years later, we're pleased to announce a two-year award from the Sloan Foundation to further support that work in advancing openness, adoption and reproducibility in science.

Scientific research is being skewed by researchers and journals changing what they're looking for after the results of the study come in. But some people are finding ways to fight back against their own bias.

The creators of the Open Syllabus Project hope that sharing data can both improve and reward teaching.

A new database at EMBL-EBI gives a home to all of the data supporting a study.

PeerJ will be indexing one of their flagship open access journals, PeerJ Computer Science, with ScienceOpen.

Labfolder GmbH and the Max Planck Society announced today a licensing agreement to  provide up to 11,000 scientists with labfolder’s laboratory data management digital platform

Open Knowledge International is delighted to announce the launch of the public preview beta version of OpenTrials at a panel session on ‘Fostering Open Science in Global Health’.