The Open Science Day, co-hosted by UNESCO and the African Open Science Platform, will be held in Cape Town on Wednesday, 7 December in the margins of the World Science Forum. With a focus on the ...

Around the world, there’s an increased interest in making research results more accessible to the public. The Biden-Harris administration, NASA, NOAA and several other US Government agencies declared ...

Science is, by its very nature, an open activity. Research results are intended to be publicly assessed and utilised, both within the scientific community and in all other contexts in which ...

But, despite these signs, advocates of openness are frustrated by progress over the past decade. They say the country's rigid publication regulations and information control, including the internet ...

The open science community has a unique and vital role to play in countering these efforts. Open science promotes transparency, integrity, rigor, accessibility, equity, and accountability—asserting ...

The Open Science and Open Scholarship Principles set the foundation for an Open Scholarship Framework for SFU, defining what it means for SFU to be an "Open University." The approved principles below ...

Your support goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership or give a one-time contribution, we’ll give a membership to someone who can’t afford access. It’s a simple way for you ...

For decades, scientific knowledge has been firmly shut behind the lock and key of eye-wateringly expensive journal paywalls. But in recent years a tide has been turning against the rigid, antiquated ...

It includes practices such as publishing open scientific research, campaigning for open access and generally making it easier to publish and communicate scientific knowledge. Additionally, it has ...