Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, head of data and HSS publishing in the Open Research team, and Amy Bourke, corporate communications manager at Nature Publishing Group, report on the first research data conference for early career researchers hosted by Scientific Data and Nature Publishing Group
The cost to research organisations of making the transition to open access has so far been the object of little attention, says Rob Johnson of Research Consulting
CERN has launched its Open Data Portal, where data from real collision events, produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, will for the first time be made openly available to all
Teams across universities and others that support research in the UK are being offered the opportunity to submit their ideas to a collaborative funding initiative being launched by Jisc
Macmillan Distribution (MDL), the international book distributor, has gone live with its new subscription platform running on an advance enterprise system from Publishing Technology
The discourse on open access to research data is aligned with the notion of rigorous science and the societal and economic benefits obtained from it
ÜberResearch, a portfolio company of Digital Science, has launched the ÜberShare initiative to offer small funders free access to the enterprise level grant portfolio tool Dimensions for Funders, covering $750 billion of historic and future spending on scientific research
Eduroam, the worldwide single sign-on secure network providing wi-fi connectivity access for education and research, reached more than 600,000 internet-enabled devices in the UK last month
The University of Southampton and Imperial College London have announced partnerships with IBM to offer students and staff cognitive computing education with unprecedented access to IBM's Watson technology and experts
The growing contribution to science of Chinese institutions such as Chinese Academy of Sciences has been revealed in the Nature Index
