Open source projects like InvenioRDM – on which we rely for our repository software at Knowledge Commons – thrive on community contributions. When initiatives like ours not only use these platforms but actively contribute improvements back to the original codebase, everyone benefits. This “upstreaming” process takes work, but it represents the collaborative spirit that makes open source software so powerful.

I saw a thing fly by on PsyArxiv and must write about it. Warning: snark detected. This is a new paper by Green, Kong, Brysbaert, and Keogh with the following abstract: “This paper revisits the Age of Acquisition (AoA) norms of Kuperman et al. (2012). Three studies were conducted.

In a time when research data is increasingly at the heart of research integrity, discussions about data sharing, openness, and reusability have gained prominence. Yet, the ethical complexities surrounding research data—who collects it, how it is used, and whose interests it serves—are often sidelined.

The journey of the Research Graph from the Research Data Alliance to a heterogeneous network of scholarly works.

Synopsis (Grok 3.0 aided) A new breed of "Deep Research" tools is reshaping how we tackle complex queries, moving beyond traditional search engines and quick AI summaries. From OpenAI’s Deep Research and Google’s Gemini counterpart to academic-focused players like Elicit, Undermind.ai and SciSpace, these agentic systems promise comprehensive reports and literature reviews—albeit with a much slower response.

La actividad medular de un investigador es escribir artículos, principalmente de investigación, para hacer este proceso eficiente y siguiendo buenas prácticas es necesario contar con las herramientas digitales adecuadas para hacer un buen trabajo colaborativo.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has started to automatically add all blog posts to the subject area community of the blog. Today I am adding another automatic community workflow: if a blog post uses tags or categories that exist as Rogue Scholar topic communities, the post is automatically added to these communities.

The third release of the Data Citation Corpus incorporates data citations from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative and enhancements to organization information. DOI: 10.60804/ykf9-z968 We are pleased to share a new release for the Data Citation Corpus.

Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw. die offen sind für Angehörige der Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbeeinrichtungen in Berlin.

It’s been a few weeks since I wrote a recap about what I’m reading. It’s been difficult watching helplessly as the institutions and financial infrastructure underpinning my profession are being systematically and irreversibly dismantled, with brilliant scientists I know personally having their careers destroyed and lives upturned.

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