In this blog, we explain what ResearchEquals Supporting Memberships are, why we are (re)introducing them, and how you can become an individual or institutional supporting member. It is clear to us that what we are doing with ResearchEquals is not a technological change, it is a social one — that means your involvement matters. What is a supporting membership? Supporting memberships are a community based approach to how ResearchEquals evolves.

A decade ago, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment launched. I know I referenced it a lot in my efforts to improve research, and I bet many of you did too! It is with great pride I can announce Liberate Science is working with DORA to make their 10 year celebration a success. Specifically, we are supporting DORA and its community with event management. We help curate and scaffold incoming community sessions for success.

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. Welcome to the Open Update. I'm your host Chris Hartgerink and this week, we don’t have a regular episode for you. The last recording we did, ended up glitchy and unusable, and then we had health issues that prevented us from recording anything at all.

We started running Twitter bots in 2017, when Liberate Science was only a side project. First we launched the PsyArxiv bot. Later, we launched bots for the MetaArxiv (2020) and EdArxiv (2021) preprint servers. Six years in, we are shutting down these Twitter bots.

🔈 Find the original audio on Anchor.fm In this episode, we get to know our new co-host! The Open Update podcast is a space to have conversations and continuously update what it means to be open. In season 3, co-hosts Sarahanne Field and Chris Hartgerink, discuss how power imbalances affect efforts to improve research, and the world beyond. [00:00:00] Chris Hartgerink: Welcome back to the Open Update.

The Open Update is our podcast to help you stay informed on what’s happening in the open research landscape. In season 1, we covered the headlines for 52 weeks. In season 2, we dove in deep to understand the implications of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science with 10 specialists.

Copyright is automatic: You create something and it will have copyright. This blog, just by writing it will have copyright. Even your doodles. It is the contract without paper trail. That also means: Without any intervention, nobody will be able to legally copy it. The interventions to make that copyright more workable are important in open movements. Such interventions provide the legal certainty to reuse whatever it is you are interested in.

Just a few weeks ago we reflected on the year 2022 — with those positive results we find the energy to make 2023 another resultful one. In this blog post, we outline how we are planning to move forward this year.

In today’s community spotlight, we talk to Nami Sunami (he/him). Nami is a maintainer of ResearchEquals and is author of over 110 proposed changes and bug reports to the project! Who is Nami and what motivates him in his work? Let’s find out by asking him a few questions. Why do you contribute to ResearchEquals? In 2019, I was at the University of Delaware as a PhD student in social psychology, looking for ways to make my research more open.

As we are about to start a new calendar and fiscal year, it is helpful to reflect on how we’ve done in the past year. Reflection is a helpful tool to celebrate achievements and to give feedback to ourselves, maybe even identify patterns we cannot see in the moment. 2022 was a big year for us at Liberate Science! We’ve achieved a lot with a small team.

I founded Liberate Science in October 2019 to realise ResearchEquals. Thanks to the Shuttleworth Foundation’s support over the past three years, ResearchEquals now exists and we have been in production for 10 months — since then we’ve had zero downtime! We will continue to develop ways for you to make your research work visible and are committed to doing that for the long haul.