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USA Basketball E-National Team Falls to Dominican Republic in Conference Finals Date: Defending FIBA Esports Open North and Central America Conference champions, the USA Basketball E-National Team (4-2) fell to Dominican Republic (4-2) 2-1 in the best-of-three finals series on May 9. After dropping the first game 61-56, the USA forced a Game 3 with a dominating 60-47 victory but a dagger of a 3-pointer by the Dominicans with 3.3 seconds in the final game sealed a 55-52 win and conference championship for the islanders. “Throughout the weekend we played well,” said USA captain Malik “O...

Nineteen years ago, a group of international researchers met in Budapest to discuss a persistent problem. While experts published an enormous amount of scientific and scholarly material, few of these works were accessible. New research remained locked behind paywalls run by academic journals. The result was researchers struggled to learn from one another. They could not build on one another’s findings to achieve new insights. In response to these problems, the group developed the Budapest Open Access Initiative, a declaration calling for free and unrestricted access to scholarly journal lit...