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A 76% donut gauge and a lit/dim region tag row (Europe, N. America lit; Latin America dim) illustrate how funder open-access mandates are spreading unevenly across the 26-million-paper dataset.
📈 Policy & Business Report

Three 2026 Reports Find Research-Funder Open-Access Mandates Spreading, but Adoption Still Splits Sharply by Region

Three 2026 reports — a 26-million-paper bibliometric study, a funder policy survey and a European Commission review — find open-access mand…

EduFabTech · 2d ago · 4 min read
A bar chart shows OECD government R&D budgets shifting in 2024: general university funding up 2.1%, defence up 11.5%, energy and environment down 8.0%, framed by the headline on falling real-terms budgets.
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Government R&D Budgets Fall in Real Terms as Funding Tilts Toward Defence, OECD and EU Data Show

OECD and Eurostat data for 2024–2025 show government R&D budgets shrinking in real terms across most member countries, with defence researc…

EduFabTech · 19 Sep 2026 · 4 min read