Noyam Journals, based in Accra, Ghana, was recently recognised for the completeness of its metadata through the Crossref Metadata Award, part of our 25th anniversary celebrations.
I got to shake Jensen Huang's hand as he received the 2025 Hawking Fellowship this evening at the Cambridge Union! He's a fitting winner for this award; he's not only tech's longest running CEO (33 years!), but also a founding engineer who deeply understands the technology stack. He also bucks the trend among bigtech and famously doesn't believe in firing people, preferring to "torture them into greatness" [1] instead.
por César Cruz Á. A inicios del siglo XX, en México, trabajar en la industria ferroviaria implicó una serie de riesgos, los cuales provocaron golpes y lesiones leves, amputaciones de brazos o piernas y, en casos extremos, la muerte.
Unsere Workshop-Reihe 2025 biegt auf die Zielgerade ein! Das Open Research Office Berlin (angesiedelt an der Universitätsbibliothek der FU Berlin) und die Universitätsbibliothek der TU Berlin laden herzlich ein zum vierten Workshop des Projekts „Recht offen.
The science blog archive Rogue Scholar started the process of becoming a German non-profit organization in 2026. This blog post summarizes the reasoning and the main steps needed to achieve this. Two weeks ago, I published a self-assessment of how Rogue Scholar adheres to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Major gaps were identified in the areas of governance and sustainability.
WIRED published a special issue with 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age
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.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.
ResearchRabbit shipped its biggest update in years: a cleaner iterative “rabbit hole” flow, a more configurable citation graph, and an optional premium tier.The company now “partners’ with Litmaps, which shows up in features and business model
Raquel Peña Carrillo, DR © Collage Madrid, España, 11 de febrero de 2021 Parte de la colección Frebrullage ´21 Sitio de la autora Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original proporcionada por su autora o propietaria. Todos los derechos están reservados por la artista.
The Latin verb agere means “to do, to act, to drive forward”. From it we get not only “agent” but also “action”, “actor”, and curiously enough, “agile”. The Romans understood what we seem to have forgotten: that agency is fundamentally about motion, about transformation, about the capacity to change the world.