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In order to get funding from the National Institutes of Health, researchers now need a plan for sharing and managing their data.
With a goal of making scientific knowledge more freely available to researchers and the public, Open Research Europe (ORE) has spent the first year of its existence establishing its profile and winning over the scientific community.
Research-reform advocates must beware unintended consequences.
Report on the recent SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force closed forum of funders, publishers, librarians and academics, who met to discuss how collaboration among stakeholder groups may accelerate a transition to open research.
Public money contributes to the publication of around 2.5 million papers in scientific journals each year - yet as taxpayers most of us have access to just a fraction of that output.
Education's digital transition has allowed students to study and researchers to work remotely throughout the pandemic, however we need to ensure te...
Little work has yet been done on exploring how more ambitious open science principles might be deployed across both the qualitative and quantitative social science disciplines.
OpenAlex catalogues hundreds of millions of scientific documents and charts connections between them.
Early career researchers (ECRs) will play a key role in transitioning the scientific community to more widespread use of Open Science from pre-registration to publication, but they also face unique challenges in adopting these practices.
In this article, we provide a toolbox of recommendations and resources for those aspiring to promote the uptake of open scientific practices.
Who can participate in Open Science and whose interests are served? Open Science in principle holds the potential to reduce inequality, but this is not going to happen unless it operates within a consistent framework and environment that supports this goal.
A new COVID-19 vaccine, developed by researchers from the Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, is being offered patent-free to vaccine manufacturers across the world.
What can research societies do to improve accessibility and equity in Open Research? Haseeb Irfanullah suggests ways we can transform our outlook and efforts.
New investment from eLife's funder-partners reflects their commitment to transforming research communication.
The move is intended to encourage greater endorsement of open science and ensure research findings are beneficial to all.
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The University of Zurich has just taken a big step forward on the open science path.
Summary of a talk at the 2021 OASPA Conference, with the title OpenCitations - what does the future hold.
In a collaborative open peer review process, the editor's role changes as much as the reviewer's role.
Open peer review has been growing steadily but its implementations take many different forms. This post takes a deep dive into the question of whether reviewers should be openly identified.
How can individual scientists most effectively spread the adoption of open science practices? The authors propose visible open science badges, especially by prestigious scientists.
PLOS keeps a watchful and enthusiastic eye on emerging research, and we update our policies as needed to address new challenges and opportunities that surface.
A Swiss Ph.D. student tweeted critically about China. Afterward, his professor at the University of St. Gallen wanted nothing more to do with him, worried that her own ability to get a visa would be at risk.
Well-meant changes to improve science could become empty gestures unless underlying values change.
By adopting the Open Research Data (ORD) Strategy, swissuniversities has taken a further step towards Open Science and follows on the existing Open Access strategy.
There are increased discussions around open access and open science in journals, but what do these terms really mean? Here we try to dissect its meaning for early career scientists and professionals.
Spain needs to set out a wider and clear OS strategy and take decisive, coordinated actions that build upon and improve existing structures to bring itself back to the forefront of OS.
Knowledge Exchange, a cooperative partnership of six national research-supporting organisations in Europe, has explored the development of an Openness Profile during an 18-month research evaluation of Open Science.
After a consultation process, the 193 member states of the United Nations cultural organization UNESCO started negotiating the final text of its ‘Recommendation on Open Science’ this month.
While the U.S. president is calling for suspending patents on COVID-19 vaccines, experts at UNESCO are quietly working on a more ambitious plan: a new global system for sharing scientific knowledge that would outlast the current pandemic.
