open access

World Health Organisation joins Plan S to make health research available for free

All health research funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO) will be free to read online, the agency announced today. The announcement makes WHO the first of the United Nations agencies to join the growing coalition of research funders and charitable foundations implementing Plan S, an initiative spearheaded by the EU to give free access […]

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Open Science: new report on the obstacles to sharing scientific data

News / Sabrina De Nardi

Despite the benefits of Open Science are now known, both for researchers and for society in general, progress towards full sharing of data, tools and scientific infrastructures are still uneven. The Science | Business Cloud Consultation Group of experts has published a new report entitled “Why Open Science is the Future”, which calls for greater

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EU-Argentina: Cooperation on Open Science

News / Sabrina De Nardi

On 7 June 2019, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (MINCyT) of Argentina hosted the 11th Joint Steering Committee on cooperation on science and technology between the European Union and Argentina in Buenos Aires. Both EU and Argentina agreed to continue developing common principles and the framework conditions needed to cooperate in research

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Open Access: the adoption of Plan S postponed

News / Sabrina De Nardi

Plan S, aimed at accelerating the transition to full and immediate open access to scientific publications, will be delayed by one year. The change followed a consultation that the supporters of the Plan – autonomously named Coalition S – held this year discussing how the open access initiative should work. Despite the postponement, the new

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Bold plan to take European open access initiative global in 2019

News / Sabrina De Nardi

2019 could be a watershed year for efforts to open up access to scientific research, according to Robert-Jan Smits, the creator of a radical plan to tear down scholarly journal paywalls. The Plan S initiative launched in September 2018 calls for free access to all scientific papers at the point of publication. It has received

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