European Research Funders pressing toward Open Science

In early September 2018, the European Union helped to put Open Science into mainstream political and scientific consciousness with the launch of coalition S and Plan S. The following is from the launch statement. What is cOAlition S? On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisation, with the support of the European Commission and

George Monbiot issues powerful call for Open Science

The British journalist George Monbiot has written a powerful article in the Guardian newspaper calling for an end to paywalls in scientific research. Below is a particularly enjoyable snippet on the origins of the paywall journal system: “Everyone should be free to learn; knowledge should be disseminated as widely as possible. No one would publicly