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RECENT SCIENCE NEWS

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Quality over quantity

•January 19, 2024

Paved with good intentions

•January 18, 2024

Are global temperatures starting to spike?

•December 27, 2023

Global leaders agree to bury fossil fuels

•December 13, 2023

Will “European values” control AI?

•December 9, 2023

Open is dead, long live open!

•December 7, 2023

DARPA announces quantum computing breakthrough

•December 6, 2023

SCI & PROJECT NEWS

April 3, 2024

CDR needs global policy coordination

The global effort to remove carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere needs global policy coordination. SCI’s Global CDR Forum is being...
February 24, 2024

EU ditches old Plan S, backs new Plan S

EU policymakers have picked up a new cause: supporting so-called "diamond" open access. But does this make sense?
January 23, 2024

UNESCO’s open science plan moves forward

UNESCO's open science plans are moving forward. While these plans aren't precisely aligned with OSI's recommendations, there is common ground.
June 13, 2023

SCI 2022 Annual Report

This report contains a summary of SCI's projects and finances for fiscal year 2021.
May 18, 2022

SCI 2021 Annual Report

This report contains a summary of SCI's projects and finances for fiscal year 2020.
November 26, 2021

UN General Assembly approves UNESCO policy

The UN General Assembly has unanimously approved UNESCO's open science recommendations.
May 12, 2021

UNESCO approves open science draft

UNESCO's open science policy draft was approved on May 11, 2021. The policy now moves on to a vote by...
May 6, 2021

TSK post: A unified approach to open

Some are perfectly happy with our community’s progress to date on open and are confident we’re heading in the right...
April 28, 2021

SCI 2020 Annual Report

This report contains a summary of SCI's projects and finances for fiscal year 2020.
June 1, 2020

Open science roadmap recommendations to UNESCO

Today, OSI released its open science recommendations for consideration by UNESCO, representing the culmination of five years of OSI’s international...
April 24, 2020

Making the case for common ground

It's hard to envision a system more global and integrated than research. For this reason alone (and there are many...
April 20, 2020

OSI’s Plan A launched

The Open Scholarship Initiative officially launched Plan A today. Plan A is OSI's 2020-25 action plan, synthesizing the significant themes...
January 7, 2020

OSI debates Plan A

Since late 2019, OSI participants have been discussing what our "Plan A" should look like (this is a working title---the...
January 7, 2020

UNESCO to lead UN-wide open science effort

OSI will play a role in this effort, with our exact responsibilities to be determined (OSI is named on page...
October 9, 2019

So, we’ve been a little busy…

For the past several years, OSI has soaked up all of SCI's time. We're starting to broaden out again---stay tuned!
August 1, 2019

OSI summit teams map out action plan

During 2018 and 2019, OSI's summit group (led by Scott Plutchak in 2018) developed a strong plan for moving OSI...
March 13, 2019

Introduction to the OSI Policy Perspective series

This report on Plan S and the future of global solutions to open is the first in a series of...
October 26, 2018

An overview of the Plan S debate

‘Plan S’ sets out ten principles, many of which have been foreshadowed in previous policy documents and developments. Nevertheless, when...
October 13, 2018

Plan S explained

Open scholar and journalist Richard Poynder recently published an interview with Robert-Jans Smits, the Open Access Envoy of the European...
October 5, 2018

Key themes from SciELO at 20

Last week, ScieELO celebrated its 20th anniversary by hosting more than 600 leaders from across scholarly communication (including 10 from...
September 27, 2018

10 years on and where are we at? COASP 2018

Last week, the 10th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) was held in Vienna. Much was covered over the...
August 15, 2018

On the EPA’s proposed rule to strengthen transparency in science

OSI is a very diverse group, including over 400 leaders from 24 countries, 250 institutions and 18 scholarly communication stakeholder...
August 1, 2018

Defining the foundations of open scholarship

What do the foundation of open scholarship look like at a really granular level? Exactly what is open scholarship, how...
July 25, 2018

Achieving open science by design

How do we get to a future where open science is the norm? The US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering...
June 29, 2018

Deceptive publishing: Summarizing the OSI conversation

The demise of Beall’s list has left a void in scholarly communications. Contested as his original lists were, they brought...
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