Disclaimer as of Nov 15, 2019: Official announcement from the Open Science MOOC Steering Committee – Introducing the Open Science MOOC by Jon Tennant. This article was originally published on genr.eu | DOI: 10.25815/6hyr-g583 The world of research is not working as well as it could be. On all sides we see issues with reproducibility, … Read more
This article was originally published at ese-bookshelf.blogspot.com by our colleague Duncan Nicholas. After more than a year of work, the Open Scholarship Strategy document has been published in full. The work was inspired by the Foundations for OER Strategy Development, the FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group, and developed by an open contribution working group of 32 … Read more
Justin Ahinon and Jo Havemann, both founders of AfricArXiv, talk in this article about the development of Open Science Services in Africa, initiatives, the current situation and chances in the future. This article was originally published at elephantinthelab.org (doi:10.5281/zenodo.1492745) Open Science is becoming increasingly popular globally and provides unprecedented opportunities for scientists in Africa, South … Read more
In an attempt to secure and protect unbiased Open Science in Europe our team member, palaeontologist and Open Access activist Jon Tennant has taken another stand against Elsevier. Elsevier is the biggest and most influential scientific publisher and at the same time probably the most profitable business worldwide. To get an overview of the cascade of events … Read more
An article by Nick Wehner, Director of Open Initiatives at OCTO | Open Communications for The Ocean – originally published at marxivinfo.org. Numerous studies have found that Open Access papers are cited significantly more than the global average. Across all scientific disciplines, the average citation increase is 30%. If that’s not a compelling enough reason to make your research … Read more
Das Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen geht Ende September in die dritte Programmrunde. Erneut werden 20 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler dabei unterstützt, ihre Forschung und Lehre offen zu gestalten. Betreut werden sie dabei von erfahrenen Expertinnen und Experten, die ihnen als Mentoren zur Seite stehen. […] Das folgende Interview wurde ursprünglich auf blog.wikimedia.de/…/ veröffentlicht und stellt Johanna Havemann als neue Mentorin … Read more
Towards the end of September, the Open Science Fellows Program will enter its third round at Wikimedia Germany. Once again, 20 scientists will be supported in making their scientific research and teaching open and thereby contributing to the promotion of Open Science. An integral part of the program is the mentoring component: two Fellows are closely … Read more
At this year’s re:publica, we had a session on Open Science Hardware. Our focus was on hardware and software solutions, tools and services, resources and projects that adopt the Open Source approach and have one goal: to increase access to scientific research. Initiatives and visionaries around the globe are putting this into action in different regional … Read more
In folgendem Artikel stellt Alexandra Athansopoulous-Köpping stellt unseren neuen Kurs zu Policy Writing and Communication vor und teilt ihre Ansichten über die Bedeutung des Themas und dessen Relevanz für die Forschung. In the last season of Game of Thrones when the danger of the white walkers was more imminent than ever, esp. in the … Read more
Som introduktion till vår nya kurs om policy-skrivning och kommunikation för forskare, Alexandra Athansopoulous-Köpping delar sina åsikter om ämnets betydelse och dess relevans för forskning. In the last season of Game of Thrones when the danger of the white walkers was more imminent than ever, esp. in the scene where Sam is at the … Read more