Save the date! – Online 7th March 2022 #oscibar Barcamp Open Science is a friendly and open scpace for those interested in making open science happen and to connect with open science communities. In true Barcamp style the day long event is made up of session suggested by the wider community. If you want to test out an idea, share a project, or have a question you think the open science community…
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Building a Tool to Find Translated Scientific Articles
You know an article exists, but cannot read its language. So you go to our tool, paste the Digital Object Identifier of the article and get a list with translated versions. You manage your articles in a reference manager and notice that an article on your reading list is now also available in your mother tongue. You are really enthusiastic about a new article that was just published…
Learning to Make Collaborative Guides with Open Access
The students of the Open Knowledge course at Hochschule Hannover made a book The Open Science Guide of Guides with a series of rapid production ‘book dashes’. The project was a partnership with GenR and the Open Science Lab, TIB. Lessons were learned on all sides — the students had a non-stop tour of open science tools and services that you chain together to make a modern book…
Your Input Needed: Barcamp Open Science
oscibar The Barcamp Open Science has a survey running to look at how to shape its future for you. Please take a moment to fill out this short questionnaire. The Barcamp Open Science has run several partnership events over 2021 as well as its annual barcamp that accompanies the Open Science Conference in Berlin, which took place in February 2021. You can read about the Berlin Open Science Barcamp…
Speedy Literature Reviews Using Wikidata and Mining Tools
Image: Indian National Young Academy of Sciences ( INYAS), India, 2021-08-13. Open Science Principles and Practice, slide 38. Peter Murray-Rust, Ayush Garg and Shweata N. Hegde. CC BY 4.0. By Shweata N. Hegde and CEVOpen community. Hashtag: #cevopen CEVOpen is an open research project developing open-source tools to enable search tools for Open Access repositories. The project has a prototype…
GenR and Co-Producing Guides for Open Science Communities
Image: GenR’s [guide needed] – in style of Wikipedia’s popularized slogan [citation needed], sources here PNG and SVGCC BY SA 4.0. #guideneeded GenR invites you to join it on a new editorial direction for 2022. The plan is to co-produced short actionable guides to support and promote—Open Science communities, and Open Science values and culture. Many Open Science communities have projects and…
Software Citation for Citizen Science
Invitation to contribute, review! See the article open pad here. The ‘ Citizen Science for Research Libraries – A Guide’ is looking for input on a short article for inclusion in the book section to be published Oct 2021 by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group. Contact: Co-editor-in-chief, Simon Worthington, TIB, simon.worthington@tib.eu @mrchristian99 Section editor Kirsty Wallis…
Brainstorming Capacity Building for Citizen Science and Open Science in Research Libraries
A co-creation session taking place online 6th July 2021, 14:00-15:30 to look at creating a roadmap for capacity building of Citizen Science and Open Science in research libraries, not only for their staff but also for academic staff, researchers, and students. The session is organised by the INOS project which looks to support Open Science and Citizen Science in higher education.
Announcing the Single Source Publishing Community Launch!
The Single Source Publishing Community (SSPC) is focused on scholarly publishing and is a meeting place for researchers, educators, publishers, and software developers. The community looks to help Single Source Publishing (SSP) technology to work better for Open Access, Open Science, in learning, and for Bibliodiversity. Drop in on our discussion board, join the monthly ‘SSPC Show & Tell’ sessions…
Community Open Principles in the Time of the Pandemic
Online webinar will address these questions via the experiences of invited open science communities including the following speakers: Dr. Ana Persic, UNESCO; Dr. Arianna Becerril García, AmeliCA; Dr. Johanna Havemann, Open Science MOOC; and Osman Aldirdiri, AfricArXiv. June 30, 2021, at 01:00 PM in Universal Time UTC: Webinar: Community Open Principles: Before, During and After the Global Pandemic…
Open Science as a driver to change?
A webinar by Paola Chiara Masuzzo on open research practice and the need for change in the working culture of research presented as part of the ON-MERRIT project (2021-06-11). Paola explores the need for a change in the culture of the research work place away from ‘research excellence’ which encourages bad practices and results in a mirriade of knock-on problems. In the Webinar Paola looks at what…
Launch of Translate Science
A repost from Translate Science Blog by TeamTranslateScience as of 6 May 2021. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Translate Science is interested in the translation of the scholarly literature. Translate Science is an open volunteer group interested in improving the translation of the scientific literature. The group has come together to support work on tools…
Decolonizing Scholarly Communications through Bibliodiversity
by Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Arianna Becerril-García, Executive Director, Redalyc.org and President, AmeliCA, Conocimiento Abierto S.C. This a reposting with permission from the authors from a deposit made on Zenodo in Jan 2021. Note: This short form article was originally accepted to be published in a Special Open Access Edition in…
Open Science and Knowledge Justice: How It Started – How It’s Going?
A GenR theme: Open Science and Knowledge Justice – announcement and call for contributions (April ‘21). GenR is running a theme on the topic of Open Science and Knowledge Justice: inequality, equality, equity, and justice for engaging with knowledge. The presentation of Open Science as being about the technical opening of the research cycle – data, literature, open standards, PIDs, etc.
Diamond OA: Ask Us Anything
Diamond OA: Free to read – free to publish, these are the principles and publishing model that offers the greatest benefits for research and for global knowledge equality. The authors of a recently published study OA Diamond Journals Study will be holding a Q&A webinar supported by SPARC Europe where the community are invited to ask questions and discuss their needs. You can read the findings and…