Is it time for you to update your Open Journal Systems (OJS) installation? What else can you do to keep your installation secure and take part in the shared responsibility? What resources are available to you? Continue on to get answers to these questions. Is it time to upgrade? No matter what version of OJS […] The post Memo: Keeping your OJS Installation Secure appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

It’s been a hot minute since last update on this lab note page. Things since last write up had been quite hectic, both in good and bad sense.

In cybersecurity, defenders have to get everything right. Cyber defense must patch every vulnerability, secure every endpoint, anticipate every exploit. Attackers, by contrast, only need to find one overlooked flaw. That imbalance, which has shaped decades of cyber conflict, has a biological analogue.

Licensing spans areas of library work such as promoting open access, helping people navigate publication rights, advocating for open infrastructure, and the technological elements of research and learning. When used well, open licences can underpin a lot of possibilities for finding, accessing, creating, and preserving scholarly work.

I’ve always been uncomfortable around historical re-enactors at museums – people who are walking around in period costume while visitors in modern clothes are browsing the exhibits.

Ein Gastbeitrag von Rômulo Lima Lateinamerika gilt seit Jahrzehnten im Bereich Open Access als Vorreiter. Das Diamond-Open-Access-Modell (DOA-Modell) für wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften ist in der Region sehr weit verbreitet. Bei diesem Modell zahlen weder Autor*innen noch Leser*innen Gebühren.

Generative AI (genAI) is now ubiquitous in research. The field of academic publishing is struggling with an overwhelming mass of genAI slop and where to draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable genAI use. GenAI not only offers new opportunities, as is widely touted, but also creates numerous new problems and challenges, not least for responsible research. What does it mean to use genAI responsibly? Is it even possible?

read this article in English Aufbauend auf der langjährigen Zusammenarbeit der TIB mit dem Public Knowledge Project (PKP) wurde ein neues Konsortium gebildet, um die Aufgaben von PKP zu unterstützen: die Zusammenarbeit mit einer globalen Gemeinschaft zur Entwicklung von forschungsbasierter, freier und quelloffener Software und zur Verbesserung der Qualität, Vielfalt und Zugänglichkeit wissenschaftlicher Veröffentlichungen.

Die gesellschaftspolitische Debatte über Flucht und Migration ist von einem Versicherheitlichungsdiskurs geprägt, der Zuwanderung als Sicherheitsrisiko konstruiert, restriktive Maßnahmen zum Schutz der nationalen Sicherheit begünstigt und dabei häufig neue Unsicherheiten für Geflüchtete erzeugt.

Click here for the version in Portuguese Welcome back to our series of case studies of research funders using the Grant Linking System.

Today, exactly 20 years ago I started this blog. Two years ago I decided to upgrade my blog to one with version control. A decision I am still very excited about. It allowed me to start innovating my blog again. As part of this, and following the step Lars took ealier, I registered my blog with Rogue Scholar and I started migrating blog posts from blogger.com to my new location. I completed the years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 now.