« The purpose of this paper is to propose a personal viewpoint on the development of document supply in the context of the recent European Union (EU) decisions on open science. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides some elements to the usual questions of service development, about business, customers, added value,…
« What is the cloud and why do researchers need it?
The cloud is a means for institutions to share, re-use and analyse the huge data sets produced by modern science. Of course, components of it already exist; lots of public labs run cloud services…
« The project has now selected the successful bidders of the €5.3 million joint Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) tender. They will submit European hybrid cloud platform proposals for the deployment of high-performance computing and big-data capabilities for scientific research. (…) »
« The way science and research is done is rapidly becoming more open and collaborative. The traditional way of publishing new findings in journals is becoming increasingly outdated and no longer serves the needs of much of science.
Whilst preprints can bring significant benefits of removing delay…
« L’adoption par le Parlement de la loi « Pour une République numérique » ouvre une importante étape de mise en œuvre. Les décrets et modalités d’application vont pouvoir bénéficier du fort consensus qui a prévalu jusqu’ici dans la recherche publique. Toutes les communautés de chercheurs, d’usagers et de…
« The Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud is a €5.3 million Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) tender for the establishment of a European hybrid cloud platform to support the deployment of high-performance computing and big-data capabilities for scientific research. (…) »
» Open access, open data, open source, and other open scholarship practices are growing in popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been achieved. One reason is that researchers are uncertain about how sharing their work will affect their careers. We review literature…
« On 20 June 2016, the Commission High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (HLEG EOSC) made the draft of their first report available: A Cloud on the 2020 Horizon. Realising the European Open Science Cloud: first report and recommendations (…) »
« On 28 May 2016, the International Association for Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) issued a response to the EU Competitiveness Council’s Conclusions on Open Science. Although welcoming the move to Open Science, STM noted its concern at a number of Conclusions which the Council has reached.
…« The Members of the Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) have been nominated. Commissioner Moedas, during the 27 May Competitiveness Council, will announce the Members of the Platform and he will inform the Member States on the role of the Policy Platform in further developing a European Open Science…
