We are excited to share our first guide from the BMFTR-funded (Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space) project “Professionalisierung der Open-Access-Repositorien-Infrastruktur in Deutschland (Pro OAR DE)”: “Preprints: Handlungsfeld für institutionelle Open-Access-Repositorien” (German only.) Matthias, L., Pampel, H., Khamis, C. O., Rothfritz, L., &
The DataCite community includes repositories that have overcome obstacles that the whole community faces to create metadata that are very complete for four FAIR use cases. Over 3000 DataCite repositories were analyzed and ten Bright Spots are recognized for outstanding completeness above 49%. Congratulations and thanks to these repositories as great examples for all of us.
One thing I was still missing in BioHackrXiv was a place with an overview of: 1. all biohackathons, 2. all preprints linked to a biohackathon, 3. an RSS feed for new papers of a biohackathon.
The WATOC congresses occur every three years.
This post features the 2025 PKP AGM recap and recording from June 17th.
Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the research presented at the 9th International Visual Methods Conference, at Istanbul, Turkey. Fig.
Meine Hauptaufgabe bei WiNoda ist es, Selbstlernkurse zu verschiedenen Themen zu erstellen, die wir via Moodle zur Verfügung stellen wollen. Das Angebot an Kursen rund ums Forschungsdatenmanagement ist bereits erfreulich groß. Allerdings sind viele Kurse noch etwas generisch – oder sehr spezifisch. So gibt es bspw.
My main task at WiNoda is to create self-study courses on various topics that we want to make available via Moodle. The range of courses on research data management is already quite large. However, many courses are still somewhat generic – or very specific. For example, there are excellent programs for training data stewards – but this qualification does not meet the needs of a collection curator or excavation manager.
Anlässlich des Weltflüchtlingstags am 20. Juni veröffentlicht das UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk (UNHCR) den sogenannten Global Trends-Bericht , um Einblicke in die globalen Fluchtbewegungen des Vorjahres zu geben.
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.
Today’s piece is a guest post by Alex Obadia. Alex is a new program director at the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). As Alex puts it, his focus is “currently on designing new enabling trust primitives for a world where many more substrates (e.g. DNA, materials, thoughts) are programmable.” I met Alex last month at the ARIA Summit.