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.
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.
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.
Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler mit der bestmöglichen Informationsinfrastruktur auszustatten, die sie für ihre Forschung brauchen, ist das Leitbild der Schwerpunktinitiative „Digitale Information“.
The mandate of the Open Science Policy Platform is to advise the Commission on how to further develop and practically implement open science policy, in line with the priority of Commissioner Moedas to radically improve the quality and impact of European science.
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment There is a pressing need to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by funding agencies, academic institutions, and other parties.To address this issue, a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals met during the Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell…
GO FAIR: a bottom-up international approach for the practical implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as part of a global Internet of FAIR Data & Services
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is envisaged as a stakeholder-driven infrastructure servicing science and innovation. More than a data repository, it will comprise technical elements of connectivity, hardware, repositories, data formats and API’s and it will offer access to a wide range of user-oriented services, data-management, associated HPC analytics environments, stewardship services and, notably, expertise. The EOSC is envisaged as a publicly governed endeavor, but given the scale foreseen and the need for long-term sustainability, parts of it will be realized in collaboration with the industry. High performance analytics environments and services may or may not be part of the EOSC, but will largely develop on top of well-defined and stable EOSC APIs.
In Berlin beginnt heute die elfte Konferenz "Academic Publishing in Europe (APE)": Die Thesen von Barend Mons zur Zukunft des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens versprechen kontroverse Diskussionen. Für boersenblatt.net sprach Sven Fund kurz vor der Konferenz mit Mons, der Professor am niederländischen Leiden University Medical Center ist.
SSHOC will create the social sciences and humanities area of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) thereby facilitating access to flexible, scalable research data and related services streamlined to the precise needs of the SSH community.
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) present this Action Plan to further develop and expand a sustainable, community-driven Diamond OA scholarly communication ecosystem. It proposes to align and develop common resources for the entire Diamond OA ecosystem, including journals and platforms, while respecting the cultural, multilingual, and disciplinary diversity that constitutes the strength of the sector.
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.
J. Schopfel, und U. Herb (Hrsg.) (2018)Description based upon print version of record; Postcolonial Open AccessOpen 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; Bionotes; Index. Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Open Divide Emerges as Open Access Unfolds; 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.