Last week I released updated Python, and Go versions of the commonmeta library that can now read metadata from OpenAlex. OpenAlex is an open index of over 250 million scholarly works from 250k sources.
+++ Bibliocon +++ Leopoldina Symposium zur Finanzierung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen +++ Diamond Open Access als Gemeinschaftsprojekt +++ Blogarchivierung mit Rogue Scholar +++ OA und Verwertungsgesellschaften +++
Speaking of the digitization of objects, the German Europa stamp 2025 was issued on 8 May 2025. Europa stamps have been issued since 1956 as a symbol of the European community, at that time by the post offices of the 6 founding members of the ECSC. A strong signal, so soon after the devastating war! Since 1974, country-specific stamps have been issued under a common theme instead of a common stamp.
Im Jahr 2024 unterstützte der Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg Open-Access-Publikationen von Wissenschaftler*innen aus verschiedenen Fachbereichen. Diese Titel repräsentieren eine breite Palette von Disziplinen und sind Zeugnis der vielfältigen Forschungslandschaft des Landes. Zurzeit bringen wir Ihnen einige dieser Veröffentlichungen in unserem Blog näher.
In the spirit of learning in public, I wanted an excuse to dive into Quarto to learn more about publishing formats beyond simple PDF and HTML documents. If you’re not familiar, Quarto (quarto.org) is the successor to RMarkdown, the next-generation scientific publishing system that works natively with Python, R, and OJS. If you already have RMarkdown you probably don’t have to do anything to it to get it to render with Quarto.
Wo wir gerade von der Digitalisierung von Objekten sprachen: am 08 Mai 2025 wurde die deutsche Europa-Marke 2025 veröffentlicht. Europa-Marken werden seit 1956 als Symbol für die europäische Gemeinschaft herausgegeben, damals von den Postämtern der 6 Gründungsmitglieder der ECSC. Ein starkes Signal, so kurz nach dem verheerenden Krieg! Seit 1974 erscheinen statt einer gemeinsamen Briefmarke länderspezifische Marken unter einem gemeinsamen Thema.
This is a guest post from Evan Peikon, who publishes Decoding Biology, a substack about computational biology, biosensor development and analytics, and network biology. He’s a prolific writer, founder, and scientist, and well worth following along. Science today looks very different than it once did.
In my own attempt to be a productive part of the change towards European digital autonomy, I upskilled myself to manage and deploy services on European cloud infrastructure. As far as European cloud infrastructure goes, I did some research and there are several major players – OVHCloud, StackIt, and Open Telekom Cloud.
1. Ausgangslage Die Ausgangslage bezieht sich auf die Universitätsbibliothek „Georgius Agricola“ der TU Bergakademie Freiberg und den Ablauf zur Erschließung von Neuerwerbungen. Das vorgestellte Tool ALIMA (AI-powered Library Indexing and Metadata Assignment ) wird von Dr. Conrad Hübler, Fachreferent für Naturwissenschaften der Universitätsbibliothek und Postdoc im Institut für Physikalische Chemie, entwickelt.
We are pleased to share the results of the 2025 DataCite Board Elections, confirmed during the recent Business Meeting of the General Assembly. These elections reflect our community’s commitment to global representation and strong governance as we continue to grow and evolve as an open infrastructure organization serving 1600+ research organizations around the world.
The monosulfoxide of cyclo-heptasulfur was reported along with cycloheptasulfur itself in 1977, along with the remarks that “The δ modification of S7 contains bonds of widely differing length: this has never been observed before in an unsubstituted molecule.