The EU's common market is based on four freedoms: free movement of goods, services, labour and capital. We're still lacking the free movement of knowledge.
The next mandate should bring some news on the “Fifth Freedom”.
In this regard, this webinar by Knowledge Rights 21:
«Scientific Innovation and Growth—What should the EU do in its 2024-29 mandate to support research?»
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01493-8
"The Japanese government is pushing ahead with a plan to make #Japan’s publicly funded research output free to read. This month, the science ministry will assign funding to universities to build the infrastructure needed to make research papers free to read on a national scale. The move follows the ministry’s announcement in February that researchers who receive government funding will be required to make their papers freely available to read on the institutional repositories from January 2025." #OpenAccess
#500CharAbstracts: 🏺 Jeremy Smoak & Alice Mandell explore the monumentality of inscriptions in Jerusalem’s urban spaces and thereby also texts themselves. These convey memories within a larger political or social narrative than architecture.
This article is part of a broader book about monumentality across ancient civilisations published 2019 at Transcript: Size Matters.
🌟 Reminder to all #OpenScience enthusiasts! 🌟
Want to publish your work openly and freely?
Simply put your preprint online and submit it for open peer-review on our platform!
“Widely respected – & regularly attacked (once physically) – in her lifetime, she is now largely neglected; an intriguing aside to feminism or to agnosticism. Dixie deserves better.”
Florence Dixie – novelist, poet, dramatist, war correspondent, campaigning journalist, suffragist, & more – was born #OTD, 25 May. Valentina Bold explores Dixie’s roving life