Open access

Education minister Sander Dekker will push to make more journal papers free to publicly-funded researchers during the Netherlands’ presidency of the EU Council

Research Commissioner tells journal publishing companies to reshape their business models to the realities of the 21st century

Cambridge computer scientists have established a new gold standard for open research, in order to make scientific results more robust and reliable.

Frustrated by old-fashioned publishing practices, scientists are launching start-ups to change the way research is evaluated and communicated, tapping open-access platforms to increase the visibility and discoverability of their work

The move to encourage wider access to the results of publicly-funded research will have limited impact without the associated tools, networks and standards that are needed for sharing and mining of data. The Research Data Alliance aims to provide them

After twelve years horsetrading, a voluntary agreement between the European Commission and Europe’s research bodies aims to get 27 national research systems functioning as one, and complete the European Research Area (ERA)

Scientific articles based on Horizon 2020 funded research must be made available for free, says the Commssion. But there will be an exception for commercially sensitive raw data

Ten leading organisations from the UK higher education and research sector have joined forces to push for Open Access to research papers.

All research papers resulting from Irish Research Council funding must now be placed in an open access repository within six months of first publication.