Other researchers say that restrictions at the largest SARS-CoV-2 genome platform encourage fast sharing while protecting data providers' rights.

NASA is elevating one of its top climate scientists to a new role, a move meant to put greater focus at the space agency on studying the causes and consequences of global warming under President Biden.

Podcasts were among the media winners of last year. Scientific podcasts in particular enjoyed great popularity. In fact, there are also some that deal specifically with Open Science. This article has 7 + 3 tips.

Open Knowledge Foundation is excited to launch the Net Zero Challenge, a global pitch competition about using open data for climate action. 

With seven academic journals in the field of social sciences and humanities the open access platform Openjournals.nl was launched today. This new, easy-to-access platform gives journals published in the Netherlands the opportunity to publish open access. The development of this platform was made possible by a grant from NWO.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announces the publication of its Recommended Practice on Reproducibility Badging and Definitions. This new Recommended Practice provides a set of recognition standards that can be deployed across scholarly publishing outputs to easily recognize and reward the sharing of data and methods.

Call for public inquiry as locked-down students unable to access online books, which can be 500% more costly than print versions.

What image does the public in Germany have of science and research? The Science Barometer is dedicated to answering this question. We have taken a look at the results of the most recent survey from an Open Science perspective.

The European Commission is about to uncork the champagne to mark the start of Horizon Europe, but significant parts of the research programme are still being negotiated, as stakeholders scramble for last minute changes.

What better way to start 2021 than with a new science communication challenge! This month's challenge should help get your creative juices flowing… writing (or visualizing!) a time when creativity, imagination or subconscious thought was important to your scientific or artistic work!

Today, the Biden Administration releases a presidential memo on scientific integrity and evidence-based policymaking, setting the stage for the administration's efforts to build back from the Trump administration's unprecedented assault on science and strengthen protections for science and scientists across the government.

European Commission encourages applications from, and collaboration with, UK-based researchers.

cOAlition S is pleased to announce that the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (FCT) is the latest national funding agency for science, research, and technology to join the coalition and demonstrate its commitment to the realisation of full and immediate Open Access. Portugal's forward-thinking approach on Open Access is widely acknowledged across Europe […]

Today, we're excited to launch the Academic Research product track on the new Twitter API.

The voice of environmental justice, once lonely in the wilderness of systemic racism, is now helping shape President Biden's cabinet with nominees pledging to restore environmental and public health protections dismantled by the previous administration.

Cao Xuetao, president of Nankai University, will be barred from applying for grants for lax lab management.

Geologists have found a rare formation inside a rock that looks just like the Cookie Monster character from Sesame Street.

Despite a long list of supremely qualified people who could inspire a whole new generation of scientists, the glass ceiling in American science remains intact.

JCT enables researchers to check whether they can comply with their funders Plan S aligned OA policy based on the journal, the funder and the institution affiliated with the research to be published.

Scientists praise US president's pick of Alondra Nelson, a specialist in bioethics and social inequality.

The SSH Open Marketplace is discovery portal designed to offer social sciences and humanities researchers the tools, software, datasets, training materials, and workflows they need to manage their data.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of sharing data openly to improve the discoverability and reusability of new results.

Nature's guide tracks the US president's appointees who matter most to science.

What research caught the public imagination in 2020? Check out Altmetrics' annual list of papers with the most attention.

2020 wasn't all bad. In April of last year, we released our first public data file. Though Crossref metadata is always openly available--and our board recently cemented this by voting to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)--we've decided to release an updated file.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. will bring with him the largest team of climate change experts ever assembled in the White House, and action on global warming is expected quickly.

The Nebra sky disk, which has been called the oldest known depiction of astronomical phenomena, is a "very emotional object."

During an webinar on Wednesday 27 November 2021, from 14.00–16.30 CET, Science Europe will formally launch the second edition of its Practical Guide to the International Alignment of Research Data Management.

Scientists were surprised to find the insect's preserved penis, which suggests it was an unknown species.