{"id":164393,"date":"2024-02-21T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T10:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=164393"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:11","slug":"scienceguide-secures-necessary-financial-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/02\/21\/scienceguide-secures-necessary-financial-support\/","title":{"rendered":"ScienceGuide secures necessary financial support"},"content":{"rendered":"

News website ScienceGuide will remain operational for the time being. The editorial team reports that a fundraising campaign has raised sufficient funds to keep the platform online.<\/p>\n

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ScienceGuide, a website providing news and op-eds about higher education and research, was in dire straits and in danger of closing down or having to continue behind a pay wall. But that is not about to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpecial thanks go to the partner institutions<\/a> and the Advisory Board<\/a> of ScienceGuide\u201d, says a message<\/a> on the website, with a picture of a cake with candles. \u201cWithout their contributions and efforts, the platform would have had to close down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The partners concerned are several universities of applied sciences and other organisations. They have now been joined by \u2018collective subscribers\u2019, also including a number of universities. However, not all the institutions could be persuaded to support the platform.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRecent events have also shown [that] there is considerable opposition to ScienceGuide in certain boardrooms, allegedly out of dissatisfaction with the journalistic standards of the editorial team\u201d, the editors write. \u201cOf course, our editorial team sometimes makes errors, and will continue to do so. However, any error will be promptly rectified as soon as it is clear that the reporting is incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is uncertain what will happen in the future: \u201cWhether the ScienceGuide website can remain accessible in the long term depends on the preferences of subscribers and the support the platform receives in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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