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The Royal Society calls itself "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and... the oldest scientific academy in con...

After the UK Government unveiled its pretty reasonable response to the Hargreaves Report ( analysed by me yesterday), the lobbying begins :...

Open access is about making copies of publicly-funded research available freely online. This stems from the belief that (a) having paid for...

I've written before about the idea of applying openness/open source ideas to science, but here's an interesting new project that at...

I've written much about open access on this blog; but generally that's been about open access to articles in academic journals. Ano...

One of the persistent myths peddled by lovers of intellectual monopolies is that you need things like patents to promote innovation. The id...

Interesting figures from new research : Marrakesh Records and Human Capital surveyed 1,000 15 to 24-year-olds highlighting not just how impo...

Despite the fact that South Africa is at the forefront of open source usage, it seems to be taking a very bad turn as far as open knowledg...

More info is always good, especially when it's about open source. So here's what sounds a worthy endeavour : My name is Zbigniew Br...

It's amazing where open source may lurk. Who would have thought that the mobile giant Vodafone had a page devoted to the subject? And ...

New one on me: The University of Openess is a self-institution for independent research, collaboration and learning. Find out more about th...

One of the winners of the the 2007 essay contest on " Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing countries " i...

Well, after yesterday's post about a paper drawing fascinating parallels between today's patent trolls and yesteryear's patent ...

The EU is at it again : An EU-funded consortium will address one of the perceived barriers for the adoption of open source software and prov...

It's happening , slowly: Novartis, the Basel, Switzerland, drug giant, has helped uncover which of the 20,000 genes identified by the Hu...

So, the Royal Society has spent three years putting together a study into the "best practice in communicating the results of new scien...

One indication of Microsoft's inability to handle the threat of the free software model is that fact that it keeps changing its strategy...