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We’re starting 2015 off with lots of open science news. Here’s a summary:

• Next week is the FORCE2015 meeting in Oxford, about innovations in research communication. If you’re not able to attend, you can follow the conference online on their site or via Twitter at #FORCE2015
• Two open science communities have community calls next week. These calls are open: anyone can join and listen or contribute. The rOpenSci call (new!) takes place on January 14. The Mozilla Science Lab call is the next day, on January 15. Check those links for timezones and instructions on how to call in. (At time of writing, no clear call-in info is listed for the rOpenSci call, but I linked to the etherpad so they will update it.)
• On the FigShare blog, Mark Hahnel writes about data sharing mandates by funders. “According to the JISC and RLUK funded Sherpa Juliet site, globally there are now 34 funders who require data archiving and 16 who encourage it.”
• In the Netherlands, universities are fighting for open access and opposing high Elsevier subscription costs. According to the last paragraph, the presence of the Elsevier headquarters in the Netherlands is hindering a move toward Gold Open Access models. Interestingly, though, Elsevier just announced that they will be launching an open access journal themselves, so this may change.
• Congratulations to Paul Ginsparg and the team at arXiv for reaching their millionth article! That’s a lot of (mostly) physics preprint articles!
• Meanwhile, we had a celebration of our own. Yesterday was F1000Research‘s second birthday and we released an infographic with some key stats and info. Snippet below, and full figure here.