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The Estonian e-Business Register will be free to access from October 1 for most categories of data.

Ten years ago, the World Bank Group (WBG) launched its Open Access (OA) Policy for Formal Publications, making it easier to share and re-use World Bank books and other content. But how did researchers and the public access our knowledge products before then? And what has changed at the Bank and in the world of scholarly publishing?

Plus, the City of Philadelphia is launching a service design studio, and the "new" DuPont is hiring for an innovation community developer.

Solid data can fuel great journalism. But the data must come from somewhere. For environmental reporters, one critical source is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Access to its data, however, is not always as free as journalists would like. So a new WatchDog takes an (admittedly geeky) look at the agency’s open data plan to clarify its efforts to promote access.

Open data and open access are two important pillars of Open Science that promote making the entire scientific process more accessible and participatory by sharing research and data, and actively engaging with people outside the scientific community.