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Give the pioneers a chance – OA and closing the reputational gap for young...

The last time I attended a panel discussion on scholarly publishing, I realized that a significant part of the audience were Ph.D. students or post-docs. When one of the speakers talked about new...

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“All research should be OA”. We agree!

Today’s interview comes from Dr. Janis Vogt, a PhD in Biochemistry and a member of the Thomas J. Jentsch Research Group in the Department of Physiology and Pathology of Ion Transport at the...

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Announcing the inaugural ScienceOpen Student Awards

It’s been 25 years since the “Fall of the Wall” (the actual date is November 9th 2014, the wall came down in 1989). I was living in the UK at the time and remember the excitement like it was...

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How to make science more open – 7 ideas for early career researchers

Quick update: in celebration of Open Access Week 2014, we’re waiving publication fees for early career researchers until November! Recently, we’ve noticed more and more calls for greater Open Access...

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Give the pioneers a chance – Open Access and closing the reputational gap for...

Impressions of the 25th European Students’ Conference 2014 in Berlin Over the last few months I’ve had the privilege of chatting to many young researchers from different areas of science. Last week, I...

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Postdocs are doing it for themselves

Image credit: Open Source.com, CC BY-SA Postdocs must make Science more open to have their voice – and get it heard. Gary McDowell, Tufts University and Future of Research Symposium We’re delighted to...

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Fees waived for Early Career Researchers – happy #OAWeek2014!

   It’s true that it’s been a while since I was climbing the scientific career ladder! My path was somewhat different to many but diversifying is more common now than it was then, for many different...

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The times they are a changing – improving the postdoc experience

We are delighted to welcome Benjamin Cain (@BenCainPhD), a Postdoctoral Researcher in Astrophysics at UC Davis, CA, USA and member of the UC Postdoc Union, UAW 5810, to our guest blog. We’ve covered a...

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March Conference Madness – Poster Publishing Dilemmas

Image credit: LuMaxArt, Flickr, CC BY-SA It’s March and so naturally the upcoming whirlwind of large scholarly conferences is on my mind. If I was still in the USA, I might also be participating in a...

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It’s the Summer of Love (for Posters) – vote for your favorite!

Haight – Ashbury by Doug Wertman, Flickr, CC-BY What’s not to love about this quintessentially San Francisco photo? As some of you know, ScienceOpen has offices in Berlin, Boston and San Francisco. It...

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This OA Week, become a ScienceOpen Activist!

OA slingshots, ready, take aim, fire! By Peter Grabitz, CC BY Become a ScienceOpen Activist and change the world of scientific publishing! Apply to become part of our think-tank and our voice in the...

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OpenCon Berlin 2016: Advancing Openness in Research and Education

ScienceOpen has teamed up with OpenAIRE and Digital-Science, alongside two of their portfolio companies – Figshare and Overleaf, to organise an OpenCon ‘satellite’ event to be held in Berlin on the...

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Gautam Dey, UCL’s Cell Biology rockstar: Publish your cake, and eat it.

Hi Gautam! Thanks for joining us here. Could you start off by letting us know a little bit about your background? Hi Jon, thanks for having me here! Credit: Gautam Dey I’m a postdoc in Buzz Baum’s lab...

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Publish your conference poster at ScienceOpen

Image Credit: Anthony Easton, Open, Flickr, CC BYFast, free and easy! ScienceOpen has been publishing posters open access for years with over 160 posters on the platform. We have now updated our...

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Publish your Preprint at ScienceOpen

Image credit: FotoliaYou can now publish your preprint directly to ScienceOpen. The discovery platform ScienceOpen will put your work in context and open it up to review with a wide range of...

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Promote your conference at ScienceOpen

‘Emerging Alberta Deep Basin Early Cretaceous Tight Plays: Results from Field Mapping of Wilrich and Lower (Basal) Fahler Strata, Spirit River Formation, Grande Cache, Alberta’ – a poster on...

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Fees waived for Early Career Researchers – happy #OAWeek2014!

   It’s true that it’s been a while since I was climbing the scientific career ladder! My path was somewhat different to many but diversifying is more common now than it was then, for many different...

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The times they are a changing – improving the postdoc experience

We are delighted to welcome Benjamin Cain (@BenCainPhD), a Postdoctoral Researcher in Astrophysics at UC Davis, CA, USA and member of the UC Postdoc Union, UAW 5810, to our guest blog. We’ve covered a...

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March Conference Madness – Poster Publishing Dilemmas

Image credit: LuMaxArt, Flickr, CC BY-SA It’s March and so naturally the upcoming whirlwind of large scholarly conferences is on my mind. If I was still in the USA, I might also be participating in a...

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It’s the Summer of Love (for Posters) – vote for your favorite!

Haight – Ashbury by Doug Wertman, Flickr, CC-BY What’s not to love about this quintessentially San Francisco photo? As some of you know, ScienceOpen has offices in Berlin, Boston and San Francisco. It...

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