To accelerate the understanding of Parkinson’s disease, improve treatment, and, ultimately, find a cure, two prominent funders in the field have recently expanded their requirements for grantees to…

The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is pleased to welcome The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) as its newest contributing member.

The Generalist Repository Comparison Chart and FAIRsharing Collection (https://fairsharing.org/collection/GeneralRepositoryComparison) was originally an outcome of the NIH Workshop on the Role of Gene...

In June, California State Senator Jesse Arreguín introduced a floor recognition to celebrate the positive  impact of the California Community College’s Zero Textbook Cost Degree Program.

✨ Last Friday ORFG members and guests gathered in a cold (and snowy!) Seattle at the Gates Foundation headquarters for our Annual meeting. We could not be more grateful to our host Ashley Farley for ...

✨ Getting super jazzed for how I'll be spending this afternoon, evening, and all day tomorrow: with members of the Open Research Funders Group at our Annual meeting in the soggy Emerald City - Seattle...

In September 2025 several ORFG member organizations signed a joint letter in response to the National Institutes of Health’s Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable...

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Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....

Open Research Beacon , a community-driven resource catalog of open projects, has launched on a new platform showcasing nearly 100 projects and growing. It aims to connect organizations and individuals...

Europe must reduce its dependence on foreign-controlled databases, particularly those in the US, the European Parliament has heard. Dependence on these resources leaves European researchers and…

NIH seeks to reduce its publishing expenses, while encouraging high quality research, in order to be good stewards of its limited public funding. Certainly,

Folks at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) moving the open needle forward... great work in support of #Preprints #OpenScience #OpenData and #OpenResearch. Kudos! 🎊

Shoutout to Nicole Allen of SPARC and Cailyn Nagle of Michelson 20MM Foundation who spoke to The Lever about the problems at university bookstores, particularly the use of automatic textbook billing. ...

After an exhaustive, international search, the openRxiv Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Tracy Teal as the organization’s inaugural CEO. Dr Teal has served as interim COO of openRxiv since its lau...

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The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is pleased to welcome Schmidt Sciences as a supporting member. Founded in 2024, Schmidt Sciences brings together the science-focused efforts of Eric and Wendy ...

Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will cap the amount of direct funding support that researchers can spend on paying for article processing charges, or APCs. These fees ar...

Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education have already resulted in significant advancements in disease prevention, economic development, crisis management, improved education, researcher career devel...

FFPMIS is an online system managed by Devis and Micropact designed to track programs within FFP from initial submission to program closure. It is also tasked with tracking both...