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New journal aims to tackle biggest problems in scholarly communication

18 Sep 2019

A new journal from Cambridge University Press will take a radical new approach to both publishing and peer reviewing research.

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6,000 and counting: Cambridge Vice-Chancellor joins Stephen Hawking in making his PhD ‘Open Access’

27 Feb 2019

Cambridge also becomes first UK university to publish position statement on Open Research.

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Step inside the mind of the young Stephen Hawking as his PhD thesis goes online for first time

23 Oct 2017

Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, ‘ Properties of expanding universes’ , has been made freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world, after being...

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Close up code

Pilot programme encourages researchers to share the code behind their work

02 Jun 2017

New project, partly designed by a University of Cambridge researcher, aims to improve transparency in science by sharing ‘how the sausage is made...

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Study of Human Immune Response to HIV

Opinion: The science ‘reproducibility crisis’ – and what can be done about it

20 Mar 2017

Reproducibility is the idea that an experiment can be repeated by another scientist and they will get the same result. It is important to show that...

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Ten thousand reasons to celebrate Open Access at Cambridge

03 Oct 2016

The University of Cambridge has received its 10,000th Open Access submission – highlighting its commitment to making research freely available to...

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Open access

Your Questions Answered on open access

23 Oct 2015

Virginia Barbour, Executive Officer, Australasian Open Access Support Group, Australian National University; Danny Kingsley, Executive Officer for...

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Ebola virus

Scientists release Ebola sequencing data to global research community online

03 Jun 2015

A team of scientists, part of the international effort to curb further spread of the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, has released its first dataset of...

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The Soul of an Officer, a sketch from one of Siegfried Sassoon’s journals. 1916

‘A sunlit picture of hell’: Sassoon’s war diaries go online for first time

01 Aug 2014

Siegfried Sassoon’s First World War diaries – some bearing traces of mud from the Somme – are among 4,100 pages from his personal archive being made...

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Maths

Cambridge University Press launches open access maths journals

06 Jul 2012

Two new open access (OA) journals in mathematics, Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma are being launched by Cambridge Journals...

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Rufus Pollock

Open and transparent

18 Oct 2011

An exciting venture dedicated to the sharing of knowledge and information, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is creating a worldwide ecosystem of...

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