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Frontiers forms open access publishing agreement with the University of Vienna

11 Jan 2018

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Court tells internet companies block access to pirate research site Sci-Hub

American Chemical Society wins lawsuit against the site, which republishes copyright research without permission from publishers. And in potentially precedent-setting move, the court says internet companies should block access to the free research portal

09 Nov 2017

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Memo to research funders: If you want open science, try harder

Kamila Markram, head of open science platform Frontiers, argues research funders must do much more to speed openness in science

25 Jul 2017

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Science publishers partner with a COST Action to share data and improve peer review

Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley have agreed on a protocol that enables peer review data sharing in a journal sample.

23 Mar 2017

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Wellcome Trust launches new open access platform

Scientists will be encouraged to publish findings ahead of peer review, with papers going online just a week after submission. The research charity hopes other funders will follow its lead

20 Jul 2016

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Scientific papers must be free to access - and to reuse- by 2020

Science ministers tell publishers to ditch subscriptions and change their business models, but agree there should be caveats on open access to protect intellectual property rights, security and privacy

31 May 2016

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Moedas: journal papers based on EU-funded science should be free to access

The days of open science have arrived and it is time to move from pay-to-read to free-to-read, says the R&D Commissioner. But publishers want to keep their subscriptions and applied research labs are concerned about IP

05 Apr 2016

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Few countries ready to adopt gold standard open access to scientific journals

Dutch EU presidency has vowed to bring countries together on open access, but a new study reveals there is a long way to go in making journals subscription-free

01 Mar 2016

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Why big pharma is turning to text mining

As the volume of information soars, it is no longer enough to search for papers - researchers need computers to read and analyse them too, says Jon Hill, computational biologist at Boehringer Ingelheim

01 Mar 2016

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EUA approves roadmap on open access

The Council of the European University Association (EUA) is pleased to announce that it has published its “Roadmap on Open Access to Research Publications” after an endorsement from the EUA Council at its meeting on 29 January 2016.

05 Feb 2016

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Open access

Frontiers forms open access publishing agreement with the University of Vienna

Court tells internet companies block access to pirate research site Sci-Hub

Memo to research funders: If you want open science, try harder

Science publishers partner with a COST Action to share data and improve peer review

Wellcome Trust launches new open access platform

Scientific papers must be free to access - and to reuse- by 2020

Moedas: journal papers based on EU-funded science should be free to access

Few countries ready to adopt gold standard open access to scientific journals

Why big pharma is turning to text mining

EUA approves roadmap on open access

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