Click here for the version in English En 2025, lanzamos los Premios Crossref a los Metadatos, con el objetivo de destacar el rol de nuestra comunidad en la gestión y el enriquecimiento del registro académico.

This week’s recap highlights Autocycler for long-read consensus assembly for bacterial genomes (future post on this one alone coming soon), Progen3 for broader generation and deeper functional understanding of proteins, the CarpeDeam de novo metagenome assembler for ancient datasets, and hifiasm ONT for efficient T2T assembly of Nanopore Simplex reads.

In center-right tech-adjacent circles, it’s common to reference René Girard. This is in part owing to the influence of Girard’s student Peter Thiel. Thiel is one of the undisputed titans of Silicon Valley—founder of PayPal, Palantir, and Founders Fund; early investor and board member at Facebook; creator of the Thiel Fellowship;

tl;dr: I made a Mastodon Bot that posts updated statistics for the Panoramax federation alongside randomly selected images once a day. Since posting about Panoramax about a year ago, I’ve been an active contributor, uploading around 530,969 360° images taken during trips in Europe and here in Argentina.

Das Urheberrecht der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik war sozialistisch-modern, übermäßig lange Schutzfristen etwa waren tabu. Diana Liebenau erforscht die Geschichte des DDR-Urheberrechts. Im Interview erläutert die Juristin das utopische Potential und die inneren Widersprüchen des Geistigen Eigentums im Sozialismus. iRights.info: Frau Liebenau, Sie forschen zum Urheberrecht in der DDR.

This June, we presented at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) and connected directly with our growing community in China.

To support repository managers and institutional decision-makers, we are pleased to present our second guide from the BMFTR-funded (Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space) project “Professionalisierung der Open-Access-Repositorien-Infrastruktur in Deutschland (Pro OAR DE)”: “Forschungsinformationssysteme (CRIS): Handlungsfeld für institutionelle Open-Access-Repositorien” (German only.) Matthias, L., Pampel, H., Khamis, C. O.,

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar relaunched today with a number of exciting new features, including major new software version, new hardware, new look and feed, and new authentication. Major new software version Version v13.0 of the InvenioRDM open source repository platform was released today.

GENEVA, Switzerland, 23 July 2025 (The Geneva Learning Foundation) –Today, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) announces the launch of “Learning to lead change on the frontline of climate change and health,” the inaugural course in a new certificate programme designed by and for professionals facing climate change impacts on health. Enrollment is now open. The course will launch on 11 August 2025.

Im vergangenen Quartal erschienen zwei weitere Open-Access-Monografien, deren Publikation mit Mitteln des Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg unterstützt wurde. Die Förderung ermöglicht die freie Verfügbarkeit der Titel, die sich mit aktuellen Themen aus Philosophie und Stadtforschung auseinandersetzen.

Click here for the version in German As a new Community Engagement Manager at Crossref, dedicated to working with the funders community, I frequently hear requests for examples and case studies of adopting Crossref’s Grant Linking System (GLS) by ‘funders like us’. This has spurred me to start a series of