(14 Jul 2023) It is generally accepted in Europe that research should be as open as possible and as close as necessary. Finding the borderline between the two is one of the most important tasks for practitioners, whether they belong to funders, research organizations, their partners or researchers themselves. Yet, this borderline is not sufficiently…
(26 May 2023) ALPSP, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, has announced a new training course: ‘The Very Latest in Open Access in China and Around the Globe’, aimed at scholarly publishers in China. The session will be held on 6 July from 19:00-21:00 (Beijing time) and focus on the latest in open science, open…
(10 May 2023) The Dutch consortium of University Libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands (UKB), together with the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch national center of expertise and repository for research data (DANS) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO), has published a practical guide on open science. Beginning researchers are…
(19 Apr 2023) As a trainer and consultant for Open Science Communication, Jo Havemann realized the general idea behind Open Science principles works very well in theory, but does not seem to be applicable to realities in certain research communities, disciplines, and world regions. To address this issue, he consolidated a map containing more than 200…
(1 Mar 2023) Research, and how it is conducted, is ever-changing and requires those that are tasked in its support to also keep up-to-date in Research Data Management, Open Access and Open Science in general. OpenAIRE’s train-the-trainer bootcamps aim at empowering trainers with the knowledge and the know-hows of Open Science so they can pass it…
(27 Feb 2023) The past couple of years have seen substantial international momentum towards open science. Key initiatives include UNESCO’s Open Science Recommendation, the OECD Recommendation on Access to Research Data from Public Funding, the APEC Open Science statement, and the G20 Science ministers support for open science. The Australian Open Science Network came…
(11 Jan 2023) The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced new actions to advance open and equitable research, including new grant funding, improvements in research infrastructure, broadened research participation for emerging scholars, and expanded opportunities for public engagement. OSTP is also launching the Year of Open Science, featuring actions across the…
(31 Oct 2022) Open Science, as a movement, evolved, grew, and now shapes the future through a variety of projects, initiates, organizations, and services. Consequently, on one hand, Open Science offerings to users grow in number, like the exponential growth of scholarly works. On the other hand, new and even more experienced users of Open Science…
(19 Nov 2022) Open science has been a feature of academia in Vietnam for more than a decade, along with open education which has been in place since the late 2000s. Since then, with the assistance of numerous bottom-up initiatives, open science has flourished and permeated a variety of academic fields in Vietnam. However, it…
(1 Jun 2022) OpenPlato is an online training platform for the research and research support communities to learn about Open Science, FAIR principles and research data management and so much more associated with these. Creators and owners of training resources are invited to participate and come on board. OpenPlato has the ambition to become…