Open access

The European Open Science Cloud is a giant effort to provide a single point of access to all scientific data. But getting all the infrastructures to integrate and engendering a culture of sharing is a daunting task, say those involved in its creation

Robert-Jan Smits is pitching the Plan S vision to transform academic publishing to the world’s big science funding bodies. China’s surprise backing is making it harder for funders everywhere to ignore, he says

Open access advocates unhappy about ‘lack of transparency’ in pricing for academic journals 

Internet pioneer Robert E. Kahn, at a Science|Business conference, likes the connectivity of today’s Web, dislikes the hacking and porn. And he has a formula to make it work better in future

Scientists warn the devil is in detail of the European Commission’s latest open access plan, while publishers argue prohibiting researchers from submitting their work to certain journals is a threat to academic freedom

Rothamsted Research has established an institutional agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers.