(3 Feb 2026) The Australian Government has announced a new Open Science Policy designed to improve access to publicly funded health and medical research and strengthen collaboration across the research sector. The policy has been introduced by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and jointly developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and…
(20 Jan 2026) In the Netherlands (NL), Open Science has taken another major step forward. Open Science NL has announced €35 million in funding for 45 projects aimed at strengthening Open Science infrastructure, supporting the tools, services, and platforms that researchers rely on to share and reuse knowledge. To learn more about the goals behind this investment,…
(22 Apr 2025) Open Science has evolved from a grassroots movement into a central policy agenda, guided by frameworks like the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and national mandates across Europe and North America. While these frameworks aim for global inclusivity, their implementation often overlooks the complex, everyday realities of research communities across Asia and the Arab world…
(2 Sep 2024) Twenty years ago the debate surrounding open science focused on access to journals. By 2020 around 25% of all chemistry papers published were open access, and now most of the major publishers of chemistry journals offer some version of open access. But more researchers are starting to realise that other elements of open science are ripe…
(31 Jan 2024) Research data repositories play a vital role in ensuring research is reproducible, replicable and reusable. Yet, the infrastructure supporting them can be impermanent. Drawing on a new datasetDorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel, Rouven Schabinger and Nina Leonie Weisweiler, explore how common data repository shutdowns are and suggest what can be done to ensure data preservation in the long-term.…
(22 Jan 2024) Open science is a broad term that refers to the movement of making the entire research life cycle freely available to everyone, from citizens and students to research professionals. This includes sharing research plans, protocols, materials, data and papers through open-access platforms. The practice of open science is on an upswing.…
(19 Dec 2023) Eleven countries have introduced open science policies, strategies and legislative frameworks since the adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science two years ago, according to the UNESCO Open Science Outlook 1: Status and Trends Around the World. This means that the the total number of countries with open science policies has…
(Dec 2023) NASA has released its free Open Science 101 curriculum to empower researchers, early career scientists, and underrepresented communities with the knowledge and tools to embrace open science practices. The five-module program is designed to equip researchers, students and citizen scientists with the skills to navigate the principles and practices of open science. NASA’s…
(14 Jul 2023) It is generally accepted in Europe that research should be as open as possible and as close as necessary. Finding the borderline between the two is one of the most important tasks for practitioners, whether they belong to funders, research organizations, their partners or researchers themselves. Yet, this borderline is not sufficiently…
(26 May 2023) ALPSP, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, has announced a new training course: ‘The Very Latest in Open Access in China and Around the Globe’, aimed at scholarly publishers in China. The session will be held on 6 July from 19:00-21:00 (Beijing time) and focus on the latest in open science, open…