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This week’s round-up of open science news:

• It’s Back To School season, and you, too, can get back in the (virtual) school benches with two free online courses that cover open science:
  • Open knowledge: changing the global course of learning (Stanford OpenEdX, Sept 2 – Dec 12)
  • Open Research (P2PU.org, registration closes Sept 12, course runs Sept 15 – Oct 12)
• If you’re in Melbourne, you can also join this free open data workshop on September 19, hosted by GigaScience and Galaxy.
• “The targets of the Open Science and Research Initiative established by the Ministry of Education and Culture are that Finland becomes the leading country in openness of science and research by the year 2017″
• Starting in January, the NIH will require researchers to share all their data.
• Finally, our newly updated homepage includes four videos about the core principles surrounding F1000Research‘s open science publishing method. They’re also all on YouTube, and two  of them, on immediate publication and open data, are included below.