open access

Reclaiming scientific publishing: Our duty to make science freely accessible to all

Camille Thomas and Romain Vaucher June 1, 2026

Photo by Eldem Ozdemir. Source: Unsplash

When we (Camille Thomas and Romain Vaucher speaking) entered academia as graduate students in France and Switzerland, we were enthusiastic about the vast amount of research available with a simple click on our university computers. However, we also quickly felt disheartened by the significant amount of research work we couldn’t access when wrapping up our theses from home. Luckily, pirates e ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during May!

Asmae Ourkiya May 29, 2026

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section. For May, we are not featuring any particular divisions, but an ensemble of all the highlights of this month instead. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Beyond discrete stratocumulus regimes: a ternary continuum of morph ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during April!

Asmae Ourkiya April 30, 2026

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section. For April, we are not featuring any particular divisions, but an ensemble of all the highlights of this month instead. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Quiet New Particle Formation is a significant aerosol source in t ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: meet Martin Rasmussen, managing director of Copernicus – EGU’s conference and publications partner!

Simon Clark April 24, 2026

Martin Rasmussen. Credit: Photo Pfluegl/EGU

Hello Martin! Welcome to GeoTalk. Could you briefly introduce yourself to our readers? Dear EGU Community! My name is Martin, and since 2004 I have had the honour of being the Managing Director of Copernicus. By training, I am a hydrologist, but even before I graduated, I was drawn into the EGU General Assembly in 2003 in Nice, so this year marks my 24th EGU. To be precise, it is actually my 25th, ...[Read More]