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Implementing the New EU Provision That Protects the Public Domain

Implementing the New EU Provision That Protects the Public Domain

An explanation of the mandatory provision in the new Copyright Directive that ensures that faithful reproductions of public domain works of visual art cannot be subject to exclusive rights.

Are You Ready to ROR? An Inside Look at This New Organization Identifier Registry

Are You Ready to ROR? An Inside Look at This New Organization Identifier Registry

What is the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and why do we need it? Learn more from the team behind it (CDL, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science) in this interview with Alice Meadows.

Open Science, Open Data and Open Scholarship: European Policies to Make Science Fit for the 21st Century

Open Science, Open Data and Open Scholarship: European Policies to Make Science Fit for the 21st Century

Open science will make science more efficient, reliable and responsive to societal challenges. The European Commission has sought to advance Open Science policy from its inception in a holistic and integrated way, covering all aspects of the research cycle from scientific discovery and review to sharing knowledge, publishing and outreach. 

Ten Key Prerequisites to Securely Fund Open Infrastructure Today and Tomorrow - SPARC Europe

Ten Key Prerequisites to Securely Fund Open Infrastructure Today and Tomorrow - SPARC Europe

Everything we have gained by opening content and data will be under threat if we allow the enclosure of scholarly infrastructures. We propose a set of principles by which Open Infrastructures to support the research community could be run and sustained.

Discussion Paper: New Indicators for Open Science and Open Innovation

Discussion Paper: New Indicators for Open Science and Open Innovation

Established indicators for research and innovation processes do not sufficiently capture the nuances of open science and open innovation. As a result, their opportunities and risks often remain obscure. A new discussion paper therefore makes proposals for the expansion of existing indicators and the development of new ones.

Blockchain: How It Could Make Research More Open and Transparent

Blockchain: How It Could Make Research More Open and Transparent

by Birgit Fingerle The study "Blockchain in Higher Education - Fundamentals - Potentials - Boundaries" (Study in German language "Blockchain in der Hochschulbildung - Grundlagen - Poten

Ten Prerequisites to Securely Fund Open Infrastructure

Ten Prerequisites to Securely Fund Open Infrastructure

The scholarly communication community needs an open, sustainable infrastructure that is community-owned - one that speaks to our open and academic values.

CO-OPERAS IN Kick-Off

CO-OPERAS IN Kick-Off

Created at the end of last year, CO-OPERAS IN aims to bring FAIR data principles into the SSH research area, support existing scholarly communication services and platforms to connect them as components of an emerging EOSC, and more broadly to the global SSH communities. 

How Can Open Science Benefit Your Career?

How Can Open Science Benefit Your Career?

Why, even if you don’t care about the values that are promoted by Open Science, Open Science can benefit your career and therefore why you should still abide by the practices.

Project: Adopting Open Science Practices: Researcher Perspectives on Incentives and Disincentives: A Symposium

Project: Adopting Open Science Practices: Researcher Perspectives on Incentives and Disincentives: A Symposium

An ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public symposium in conjunction with the September 2019 meeting of the Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. The symposium will explore current barriers to adopting open science practices and how they might be addressed.

Citecorp: Working with Open Citations - ROpenSci - Open Tools for Open Science

Citecorp: Working with Open Citations - ROpenSci - Open Tools for Open Science

citecorp is a new (hit CRAN in late August) R package for working with data from the OpenCitations Corpus (OCC). OpenCitations, run by David Shotton and Silvio Peroni, houses the OCC, an open repository of scholarly citation data under the very open CC0 license. The I4OC (Initiative for Open Citations) is a collaboration between many parties, with the aim of promoting "unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data". Citation data is available through Crossref, and available in R via our packages rcrossref, fulltext and crminer.

Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Things

Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Things

The Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Global Sprint was held online over the course of two-days (29-30 November 2018), where participants from around the world were invited to develop brief guides (stand alone, self paced training materials), called "Things", that can be used by the research community to understand FAIR in different contexts as well as some initial steps to consider.

Legal Compendium on Open Science: Guideline Answers Legal Questions

Legal Compendium on Open Science: Guideline Answers Legal Questions

 With this compendium, the Hamburg Open Science Programme aims to provide practical support for practitioners of open science and to help remove existing obstacles on the way to greater transparency in science.

Systematic Literature Review of "Teaching Open Science"

Systematic Literature Review of "Teaching Open Science"

A call for people who would like to join a collaborative process to further explore and write the systematic literature review on “Teaching Open Science“.

Significant Economic Benefits? Enhancing the Impact of Open Science for Knowledge Users

Significant Economic Benefits? Enhancing the Impact of Open Science for Knowledge Users

In this post it is discussed how open research can lead to economic benefits. The author suggests that future open research policies should focus on developing research discovery, translation and the capacity for research utilisation outside of the academy.

ELife Introduces First Demonstration of the Open-source Publishing Platform Libero Publisher

ELife Introduces First Demonstration of the Open-source Publishing Platform Libero Publisher

The working example represents a major milestone in the development of Libero Publisher, a community-supported tool to help modernise academic publishing.

Universities and Knowledge Sharing

Universities and Knowledge Sharing

The authors explore the extent to which universities are functioning as effective open knowledge institutions; as well as the types of information that universities, funders, and communities might need to understand an institution's open knowledge performance and how it might be improved. The challenges of data collection on open knowledge practices at scale, and across national, cultural and linguistic boundaries are also discussed.