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<p>The International Science Council recently signed two important agreements with UN agencies, relating to work on urban health and wellbeing and disaster risk reduction.</p>
20.06.2019
<p>The projects led by African early-career scientists will be supported as part of the third LIRA 2030 Africa call on Pathways towards Sustainable Urban Development in Africa.</p>
19.06.2019
<p>The Open Library of Humanities has demonstrated a model for high-quality open access publishing, without Article Processing Charges. We asked Chief Executive Officer Martin Eve whether the Library could serve as inspiration for Learned Societies in a post-Plan S world.</p>
12.06.2019
<p>Professor Daya Reddy, President of the International Science Council (ISC) and Chair of its Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science has issued the following statement:</p>
12.06.2019
<p>The International Science Council has appointed Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and leading defender of climate justice, and Ismail Serageldin, Emeritus Librarian of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, and a world authority on development, as inaugural Patrons of the International Science Council.</p>
07.06.2019
<p>The International Science Council led a parallel session on transdisciplinary research at the recent Sida Science Days in Stockholm, May 2019. Presentations from two programmes – Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) and Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa (LIRA 2030 Africa) – were profiled at both the programme level as well as the project level. Dr Zarina Patel reflects on the session.</p>
28.05.2019
<p>‘Octopus’ will be a single platform for publishing scientific research, free to read in any language, in a format that supports rapid, informed reviewing. We speak to its creator, Alex Freeman.</p>
23.05.2019
<p>Human-society interactions with the ocean were high on the agenda at the first Global Planning Meeting for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15 May 2019.</p>
23.05.2019
<p>Hybrid journals are a crucial source of income for many learned societies. But the Plan S initiative on scientific publishing excludes hybrid journals, which may constrain the other primary activities of societies such as capacity building.</p>
21.05.2019
<p>The United Nations’ Office for Disaster Risk Reduction invited ISC ROLAC to be part of this important meeting on the topic of DRR, which is one of the office’s Priority Areas.</p>
20.05.2019
