Industry trends

CERN and Wigner Research Centre will be first users of multiple 100Gbps links

Countries' GDP per capita and R&D spend per capita have a big impact on researchers' access to academic papers - and the number of papers and time spent reading them have an impact on research, according to Mendeley's new Global Research Report

Wiley survey finds that over 30 per cent of researchers had published at least one open-access paper, and 79 per cent said that open access was more prevalent in their discipline than it was three years ago

International scientific community agrees on need for quality indicators for new open-access journals

Open data partnership leads to release of data from Nobel Prize-winning laboratory for public use

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has issued an open-access mandate for its researchers and employees

A new, national policy in Ireland calls for publicly-funded research outputs to be deposited in an open-access repository and be publicly discoverable

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) has launched a Registry where researchers can distinguish themselves by creating a unique personal identifier