With a grant from Wellcome, OpenAlex is working to improve its coverage of funding metadata. The three-year project started in September 2025, and the effects are already visible. Building on an earli...

Open Science NL has awarded 5.4 million euros to the Netherlands eScience Center to execute the Research Software Sustainability Programme. Applicants can request support in various forms, including in-kind assistance from expert research software engineers, material costs for workshops, and support for research software champions.

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...

Funder metadata is vital to understanding where research comes from & how it is used. But, to be truly effective it needs to be open to all.

As professionals working in open science and scholarly communication reform, we believe in practicing what we preach. That’s why we recently chose to publish an article using the…

This month marks one year since the Dutch Research Council (NWO) introduced grant IDs—an important milestone in our journey toward more transparent and trackable research funding. We created over 1,60...

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Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...

Open Science NL has awarded five grants of €400,000 each to expand citizen science hubs at research organisations. These grants will help foster knowledge exchange and strengthen expertise and support...

The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science

Open Science NL invites interested parties to submit applications for the new call Research on open science. This call focuses on research into open science practices, with the aim of strengthening th...

In this webinar, Sara Rouhi (AIP Publishing) and Dan Rudmann (Utrecht University Library) will discuss the implications of the recent attacks of the Trump administration on academic freedom in the US ...

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As UK universities desperately seek savings, open science advocates must press both their moral and selfish cases, say Marcus Munafò and Neil Jacobs

The fifth edition of the Netherlands National Open Science Festival will take place on 24 October 2025 at the University of Groningen. Be sure to mark your calendar!

Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource

This week, the Senate is considering the OCW budget with its proposed cuts to higher education and research. Ahead of the debate, NWO once again expresses its concerns about the consequences of the cu...

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The key to success in the goals of the Barcelona Declaration will be in effectively and efficiently coordinating collective actions and dissemination and outreach activities. To do this in a well-orga...