SAVE THE DATE Opening Research Assessment Final Conference of the GraspOS Project 12–13 November 2025 CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Italy We are pleased to announce the Final Conference of the GraspOS project: Opening Research Assessment, taking place on 12–13 November 2025 in Pisa, Italy.

Oxford University Press is going full surveillance capitalist mode. They don’t do author offprints anymore because authors sharing their work equals “piracy”; want nothing more dearly than tracking their users’ every move; and would rather you didn’t even email your work to students and colleagues. God forbid anyone actually read your publicly funded scholarly work.

DOI: 10.60804/yxna-f837 Libraries play an important role in driving adoption of open data, and they have an increasing focus on understanding dataset usage and impact. This information is key in order for institutions to gain information about the diverse research outputs contributed by their researchers, and to inform institutional strategy around research data management.

Die neue Bundesregierung wird den restriktiven Kurs in der Grenz- und Asylpolitik, den die Ampelkoalition seit 2023 eingeschlagen hat, fortsetzen und intensivieren. Eine zentrale Maßnahme dabei sind Grenzkontrollen, die auf unbestimmte Zeit fortgesetzt und noch verstärkt werden sollen.

2025 Update In 2022, we set out to update our DOI display guidelines with the intention to adopt the proposals in 2025. It’s important to note from the outset that we are not mandating any immediate changes to the DOI display guidelines. Instead, we are working with our community to co-create a solution that addresses the diverse needs of all users, rather than imposing technical changes that may not suit everyone.

Two and a half month into the One Million IUPAC Names project, we passed the third milestone, the one for 100 thousand IUPAC names (doi:10.5281/zenodo.15266459). Time for an update. This milestone release took a bit longer. Going from 50 to 100 thousand is a bigger step than from 10 to 50 thousand, but the open access chemistry literature was already done by then. Basically, I ran out of open access chemistry publications.

I was increasingly unhappy with mypublishing strategy (or the lack thereof), but also increasingly worriedabout the state of the internet, especially the aggressive scrapping ofcontent by AI bots. So, I reconsidered my approach.

Nestled in the hills of Wise County, Virginia, stands an abandoned orphanage, its concrete façade half-swallowed by trees and briars. Built early in the 20 ^th century, in an era before modern foster care, county orphanages typically provided shelter, education, and basic necessities to local children in need.

Today is International DNA Day, commemorating the day in 1953 when Crick, Watson, Wilkins and Franklin published their papers on the structure of DNA. Fifty years later, with the declaration that the human genome project was close to completion the US Senate and the House of Representatives declared that 25 ^th April 2003 would be the first DNA Day, and ever since many (including ourselves through many blogs) have commemorated the date.

+++ Fediverse +++ Open Access handgemacht +++ KI und OA +++ Open Access as a Business Model +++ Unfair Licensing Practices +++ Institutionelle Repositorien und Forschungsdaten +++

As another DNA Day treat GigaByte today publishes new benchmark data and analysis of the new CycloneSEQ platform, a novel sequencing technology using nanopores that demonstrates here the ability to sequence complete bacterial genomes. Getting our hands on a CycloneSeq sequencer Following on from the recent official launch of BGI’s new CycloneSEQ single-molecule sequencer the new Data Release published today in GigaByte presents