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