UNESCO sets international open science standards
Move will 'encourage greater endorsement of open science and ensure research findings are beneficial to all'
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‘Publishers need to help speed research up, not slow it down’
Fiona Hutton, of Cambridge University Press and Assessment, looks back over her career and tells of her love of the wilderness
‘World’s first open research publishing platform for HSS’ launched
Initiative will 'provide HSS scholars with a rapid, accessible and collaborative venue to publish their work'
China ‘pursuing national open science strategy’
China is working on a master plan for the internationalisation of its domestic journals and plans to pursue an open science strategy at a…
OA 2020 – the transition towards open science
We've recently seen some positive and impactful changes to the way in which the OA landscape can work, writes Steven Inchcoombe
Towards a community-driven, open access university publisher
Alenka Prinčič and Frédérique Belliard describe how they influenced the change from traditional academic publisher to innovative and community-driven university press at TU Delft
Reproducibility in the life sciences: the role of protocols and methods
Get you FREE White Paper from Springer Nature Experiments. Reproducibility in the life sciences: the role of protocols and methods. In this white paper…
Academic libraries and coronavirus: a view from Italy
The pandemic has demonstrated the importance of open access and open science, writes Rossana Morriello
Elsevier Netherlands agreement ‘major breakthrough for open science’
A group of research institutions in the Netherlands have reached an agreement with Elsevier that is being hailed as a 'major breakthrough for open…
UK research universities already ‘open doors’
Adam Tickell outlines the open access achievements UK research universities can be proud of and the next steps needed to remain a global leader…