A not-for-profit and collaborative effort toward connecting scholarly records across global research repositories. Our work is focused on linking research projects and research outcomes on the basis of co-authorship or other collaboration models such as joint funding and grants.
OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area.
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) has now made its research data accessible to the public in support of the European Commission’s strategy on Open Science for improved circulation of knowledge and thus innovation for generating growth.
Paradoxically, though the 2017 levels of Open Access article output have markedly declined, the underlying trends tentatively point to the growing or stable levels of Gold Open Access over the last decade with rising levels of hybrid Open Access in recent years. A recent report indicates possible reasons for these developments.
Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler mit der bestmöglichen Informationsinfrastruktur auszustatten, die sie für ihre Forschung brauchen, ist das Leitbild der Schwerpunktinitiative „Digitale Information“.
U. Herb, und J. Schöpfel (Hrsg.) Library Juice Press, Sacramento, CA, (2018); "Provides a critical assessment of the concept and the reality of open access, with a special attention to its impact in the countries of the Global South"--. Part one. Global issues -- Openness as tool for acceleration and measurement : reflections on problem representations underpinning open access and open science -- Open access, a new kind of emerging knowledge regime? -- Open/access : negotiations between openness and access to research -- The paradox of success -- Open access and symbolic gift giving -- Cooperative futures : technologies of the common in the collaborative economy -- Part two. North/South -- The contribution of the Global South to open access -- Postcolonial open access -- Open access initiatives and networking in the Global South -- Open science, open access : opportunities for the Global South, or just another Trojan horse from the North? -- A tale of two globes : exploring the North/South divide in engagement with open educational resources -- Ubuntu : a social justice pillar for open access in Sub Saharan Africa -- Asymmetry and inequality as a challenge for open access : an interview.