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A new journal from Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Press will take a radical new approach to both publishing and peer reviewing research.

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

Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, ‘, has been made freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world, after being made accessible via the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge’s Open Access repository, Apollo.

New project, partly designed by a ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge researcher, aims to improve transparency in science by sharing ‘how the sausage is made’. 

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 the claims of any experiment are true and for them to be useful for any further research. However, science appears to have an issue with reproducibility. 

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge has received its 10,000th Open Access submission – highlighting its commitment to making research freely available to anybody who wants to access it, without publisher paywalls or expensive journal subscriptions.

Virginia Barbour, Executive Officer, Australasian Open Access Support Group, Australian National ̽»¨Ö±²¥; Danny Kingsley, Executive Officer for the Australian Open Access Support Group, ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge; James Bradley, Lecturer in History of Medicine/Life Science, ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Melbourne; Keyan Tomaselli, Distinguished Professor, ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Johannesburg; Lucy Montgomery, Director, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin ̽»¨Ö±²¥, and Tom Cochrane, Adjunct Professor Faculty of Law, Queensland ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Technology answer questions about open access.

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 the virus’ genetic structure online. ̽»¨Ö±²¥dataset will allow the global scientific community to monitor the pathogen’s evolution in real-time and conduct research that can lead to more effective strategies against further outbreaks.

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 freely available online from today, almost 100 years since Britain declared war on Germany.

An exciting venture dedicated to the sharing of knowledge and information, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is creating a worldwide ecosystem of searchable data and the tools to interpret that data. Founded by Cambridge economist Rufus Pollock, OKF has big ambitions in fields that range from sonnets to statistics.