open access
Welcome: Bastian Drees
Bastian Drees is a biophysicist turned librarian, who joined EMBL in January as the new Head of Library. Here, he discusses the changing role of libraries and how they can help scientists organise and share their results.
Marking 40 years of the Szilárd Library
The Szilárd Library celebrates its 40th anniversary on 20 November 2019.
Facilitating transcontinental human data exchange
Federated data sharing will now be possible on an unprecedented scale
The future of scientific publishing
Ioanna Ydraiou and Bernd Pulverer spoke about their view of challenges and opportunities of OA.
Open access: transforming science
EMBL’s new open access policy aims to make EMBL research widely and freely accessible.
Become a member of Euro-BioImaging
Euro-BioImaging, the pan-European open access research infrastructure for biological and medical imaging technologies, invites leading European imaging facilities to submit proposals to participate. Applications to become a Euro-BioImaging node will be reviewed by a board of independent…
Better imaging from bench to bedside
From microscopy to computer tomography (CT) scans, imaging plays an important role in biological and biomedical research, but obtaining high-quality images often requires advanced technology and expertise, and can be costly. Euro-BioImaging, a project which launches its preparatory phase today,…
Open access to large-scale drug discovery data
The Wellcome Trust has awarded £4.7 million (€5.8 million) to EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) to support the transfer of a large collection of information on the properties and activities of drugs and a large set of drug-like small molecules from the publicly listed…
EMBL-EBI and collaborators win bid to run UK PubMed Central
Scientists will be able to access a vast collection of biomedical research at the touch of a button thanks to a major new initiative that aims to promote the free transfer of ideas in a bid to speed up scientific discovery. Based on a model currently used in the United States, UK PubMed Central…
A brighter future for Europe’s favourite molecular biology software package
EMBOSS, the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite, has received a vital funding boost from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) that will guarantee its continued maintenance under an open source license for the next three years. This ends two years of…
