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.

We are honored to announce that John Chodacki (University of California Office of the President) has been awarded the DataCite Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his extraordinary leadership and dedication to advancing open research and strengthening global research infrastructure.

Angaben zur Fachzugehörigkeit werden in vielen Forschungsdatenrepositorien empfohlen.

Berlin researchers can now access a central lab and a mobile lab to design and produce research hardware. The BUA mobile lab is on tour, with a first stop at the FU Berlin in June 2025. Dear Berlin researchers, Have you ever heard of makerspaces, 3d printing, or open source research hardware? You may wonder how these concepts are connected with open science and research reproducibility.

In the beginning … … there was a 9-track tape shipped from Bell Labs. S would be installed for “unix”. Extensions could be programmed in Fortran. I started using this around 1985. S REPORT presaged Sweave and knitr: troff, eqn, pic could be interlarded with S computations. Here’s a taste of inputs and outputs for S REPORT.

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗Help us maintain {pkgcheck}! You might know of our {pkgcheck} system used for our automated package checks, and for your own stand-alone and GitHub-action usage on any package. We are seeking co-maintainers for the {pkgcheck} package which powers this system.

Call for Papers – Transnational Perspectives on Anime: A Symposium, in collaboration with Japan Foundation London Location: Lancaster University Date: July 4th 2025 Anime studies has become a significant area of investigation with exponential growth throughout the 21st century and more specifically the past decade.

Two week ago I uploaded a paper that has been in the works for some time. In fact, I first mention it as conference paper for the special issue of the 11th International Conference on Chemical Structures, you know, the meeting held in 2018, of which the 13th edition starts in 7 days. I had a poster at that conference which I described in this blog post.

I spent a couple of days at the National Academy of Sciences in the USA at the invitation of the Royal Society, who held a forum on "Measuring Biodiversity for Addressing the Global Crisis". It was a packed program for those working in evidence-driven conservation: I was honoured to talk about our work on using AI to "connect the dots" between disparate data like the academic literature and remote observations at scale.

The data from the German Library Statistics (DBS) reveals a clear trend: while spending on Closed Access content in university libraries in Germany has remained relatively stable, investments in Open Access have surged dramatically. Please note that not all universities reported all values consistently, making it impossible to quantify the trends with complete precision. However, clear trends can still be identified.

“If something is to stay in the memory, it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.” Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals Watching the recent Severance season 2 finale “Cold Harbour,” I became increasingly intrigued with the show’s explorations of selfhood and autonomy, whereby the ‘innies’ are […]