« (…) Research data should not be stored away on personal computers or USB-sticks, nor in research infrastructures only researchers themselves know how to use. Making data easily accessible for other researchers will enhance scientific progress. Making them accessible for a broader audience such as citizens and entrepreneurs will greatly boost…
« Reflections of the Research, Innovation and Science Policy Experts High Level Group.
Carlos Moedas (European Commissioner for Science, Research & Innovation): « (…) I encourage readers to engage in a broad reflection and debate throughout Europe on the economic and societal policy rationale for an open EU Research and Innovation strategy.…
« In which cases does Citizen Science prove to be a profit in practice, where are the barriers, and what role can infrastructure facilities play? In the interview, Citizen Science Expert Dr. Katrin Vohland answers these questions and gives an account about ongoing projects, her assessment of future developments and the…
« One topic of great interest across academia is the evolution of researcher perceptions of open access publishing and data sharing. In September, this was the focus of the latest in Wiley’s annual surveys of the research community. The 2016 Wiley Open Science Researcher Survey* builds upon our previous surveys on…
« Science Europe is committed to playing a role in accomplishing the transition to Open Access in an efficient and sustainable way. In its latest recommendation, scientific institutions are encouraged to disclose payments of Open Access publication fees by participating in the ‘Open APC Initiative’. This will help create a more…
« Judy Luther offered an insightful birds-eye view of the burgeoning preprints landscape at Scholarly Kitchen yesterday. As she mentioned, the Center for Open Science is contributing to preprints with a free, open infrastructure to support preprint services across scholarly communities. Here’s a brief summary of where…
« Open Science is a collection of actions designed to make scientific processes more transparent and results more accessible. Its goal is to build a more replicable and robust science; it does so using new technologies, altering incentives, and changing attitudes. The current movement towards open science was spurred, in part,…
« Background
Open science refers to ongoing changes in the way research is conducted: for scientists themselves, through increasing the use of open access scientific publishing and open data, and for the public, through increasing their understanding of and participation in science. (…)
Goals
The European Commission asked…
« (…) Promoted by the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) « Austrian Transition to Open Access – AT2OA » is a new project involving 21 Austrian Universities under the lead of the University of Vienna. Its aim is to contribute to the transformation from Closed to Open Access of scholarly…
« Au sein de cet article nous nous intéresserons aux nouvelles formes de revues scientifiques numériques. Les mutations induites par le numérique ont en effet un impact fondamental sur le secteur de la communication scientifique (Dillaerts, 2012). Comme nous le démontrerons dans une première partie à travers l’exposé de l’état de…
