(21 Apr 2022) Open Science and its wider application to the social sciences and humanities, is predicated on the idea that research can be reproduced and shared across digital platforms, but to what extent do researchers actually use digital tools a part of their work? Commenting on a recent study into the workflows of social…
(7 Apr 2022) This report presents the result of a study that explores the interactions and the balance between Open Science and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The report presents the state of the art and reflections to scope the statement ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’ in the context of an evolving and…
(28 Mar 2022) The African Open Science Platform (AOSP), which has been hosted by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa since 2020, aims to position scientists and science systems in Africa at the cutting edge of data-intensive open science. The Platform was first initiated in 2017, and is now ramping up its activities following the appointments…
(26 Nov 2021) The LIBER Citizen Science Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of the first section of their Citizen Science for Research Libraries Guide, a four-part book series. The guide is designed to be a practical toolbox to help run a citizen science project. It has been put together from contributions by members of the…
(26 Nov 2021) Some 193 countries attending UNESCO’s General Conference have agreed to abide by common standards for open science. The first international framework was adopted in the hope of making science more equitable and inclusive, as well as enhancing international scientific cooperation. Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General, said: ‘The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into…
(6 Aug 2021) Research England grants £650,000 to help build Octopus into a new global service for scholarly communication. Funding has been agreed to help develop a ground-breaking global service which could positively disrupt research culture for the better. Announced today by the science minister, Amanda Solloway, Octopus Publishing Community Interest Company (CIC),…
(23 Jun 2021) The pandemic presented an urgency for effective science to inform decision-making and has shown just how fast and open scholarly communication can be. Researchers shared their preliminary results on preprint servers and institutional repositories at unprecedented rates, inspiring various preprint peer-review initiatives. Journal publishers processed manuscripts from submission to publication in record time. And…
Faculty and staff members at Utrecht University will be evaluated by their commitment to open science. (25 Jun 2021) A Dutch university says it is formally abandoning the impact factor — a standard measure of scientific success — in all hiring and promotion decisions. By early 2022, every department at Utrecht University in the…
(3 Jun 2021) China is working on a master plan for the internationalisation of its domestic journals and plans to pursue an open science strategy at a national level. That was one of the main messages of a session at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) held last week, and hosted…
(11 May 2021) At a meeting wrapping up Tuesday, diplomats and legal and technical experts from UNESCO’S member states are trying to draw up new global guidelines under a project called Open Science. “The crisis put a spotlight on how scientific information is produced, shared, communicated,” said Ana Persic, chief of the science policy section…