We are pleased to announce that the projects OA Datenpraxis and Infra Wiss Blogs of the Information Management Research Group from the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin will be represented at this year’s BID Congress. Furthermore, Heinz Pampel will be involved in several other events during the BID Congress.
The Amazon region is crucial for climate balance and biodiversity preservation. DataMap/Amazon, an initiative of the Center for Sustainable Amazon Studies at the University of São Paulo (USP), promotes the production and dissemination of science for the sustainable development of the Amazon.
Die Organisation Communia setzt sich für die Gemeinfreiheit in Europa ein. Das Ziel: Bibliotheken, Archive, Universitäten und andere Wissensinstitutionen sollen sich weiter rechtssicher öffnen und ihren öffentlichen Auftrag im digitalen Wandel erfüllen. Dafür hat Communia Forderungen für ein digitales Wissensgesetz erarbeitet. iRights.info veröffentlicht die deutsche Fassung. Justus Dreyling arbeitet als Policy Director bei Communia.
Por fin, en esta entrada comenzaré a hablar de la selectio de las variantes que permitirá establecer el texto crítico. En ChrysoCollate esta operación es relativamente simple. En puridad, no se trata de una colación completamente automatizada, pues ChrysoCollate —a diferencia de CollateX— no es capaz realizar un alineamiento de textos y evaluar la cercanía de las lecturas, labor que debe ser realizada manualmente por el editor.
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.
Every episode in a tv series starts with a recap. So… Previously, on Portal: the Regime Shift — In fall of 2023, one of the ruling families of Portal — the Desert Pocket Mouse ( Chaetodipus penicillatus for my mammalogy friends) — fell from favor with no warning. With each passing month, hopes for a recovery faltered and then dimmed. By fall of 2024, this once thriving population had become a dismal shade of yore.
Die Fachzeitschrift Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis veröffentlichte soeben einen Call for Papers, auf den wir auch gern an dieser Stelle kurz hinweisen. Thema sind offene Bildungsmethoden bzw. Open Educational Practices (OEP). Diese Hier werden also die Ideen und Ziele von Open Access auf den Bereich der Bildung übertragen. Wie auch bei Open Access können auch bei den OEP Bibliotheken eine tragende Rolle übernehmen.
I remember when synthetic biology was supposed to be the existential threat. The conferences, the white papers, the Senate hearings filled with grim predictions of a world where DNA synthesis and gene editing would put pandemic-class pathogens in the hands of anyone with a credit card and an internet connection. It hasn’t quite turn out that way, yet.
Ronald J Planer and Claudio Tennie review The Human Evolutionary Transition, by Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda and Johan Lind
Man Amazed to See Rare Eagle in Marlow A marvel of nature recently graced the skies over Marlow, leaving one man awestruck. The sighting of a rare eagle, a bird not typically seen in this region, has caught the attention of bird enthusiasts and onlookers alike. ## Spotting the Rare Eagle During what seemed to be an ordinary day, a man found himself witnessing an extraordinary spectacle.
As part of our Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Science grant, we organized a Chemistry Development Kit User Group Meeting (#CDK25UGM), of which yesterday was the “conference” day, and today a hackathon. I opened the session with a few slides welcoming everyone at Maastricht University (and our Dept of Translational Genomics, and explaining the NWO grant.