Draft roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud paves the way for a governance structure to be in place by the end of 2018. A ‘soft overlay’ will gradually pull resources across Europe into a seamless whole

A new Science|Business report finds costs may be lower than expected for the EU’s ambitious plans to better connect researchers and their data across the continent – and examines ways to fund it

Commission aims to provide instant access to data stores across Europe, but some scientists worry about governance, control and costs

Push to build political support and recruit volunteers for the project in a bid to ensure it meets diverse needs of research institutes across Europe

A Science|Business report outlines different options for governing the EU’s ambitious effort to build a ‘cloud’ for science

The European Commission plans to launch its open science cloud by 2020, but calls on universities to train more data scientists

All the data produced by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is now available to external users.

The Commission wants to knit existing data infrastructures into a shared pan European resource. Agreeing the rules for doing this is a daunting task, says Juan Bicarregui, a member of the expert group that is laying the groundwork

A new data tool lets scientists scour and download almost 500 datasets

ACES winner Mendeley is revolutionising the way research is done – using cloud computing to create the largest crowd-sourced library in the world. Its software lets academics organise and annotate journal articles, and share and discuss their work with researchers around the globe