Open Science
Join the Open Science Barcamp 2024
This year’s Open Science Barcamp will be held on 5 September, on-site in Potsdam, and can also be joined online.
Open Access
National Overviews on Sustaining Institutional Publishing in Europe
The DIAMAS project‘s new report, “National Overviews on Sustaining Institutional Publishing in Europe,” explores Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing in 10 European countries. It identifies how Diamond OA publishing and institutional service providers are financially sustained in specific national contexts. Key findings suggest that national contexts create unique conditions for Read more…
Indigenous Knowledge
Restoring ecosystems by searching the web
Up for some good news today?
See what difference you can make by switching your online search engine to Ecosia and how implementing #traditionalknowledge to #landmanagement helps to restore whole ecosystems and empower subsistence farmers, in Ethiopia, and anywhere in the world.
Perspectives (blog)
Let’s Enhance Peer Review Standards for Quality Research Publications, together!
Very happy to announce an initiative co-created by Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke, and me that we hope will be used by and contributed to across research stakeholders and in particular researchers, publishers, editors, and librarians.
Peacebuilding
What the world needs now 🌏 ❤️🩹 ⚛
“We don’t need another mountain of research evidence that our actions on this planet lead to the collapse of whole ecosystems, there is enough evidence that we need to course-correct and relearn sustainable economics as practiced since human existence still today by #indigenouspeoples. []”
Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare is a core component of Open Science for various reasons.
Digital Tools
Tools to help you accelerate your research (open source)
Presented to you by Veronica Espinoza, explore eight open-access tools (web-based) that will help you accelerate your research process.
AfricArXiv
Open Science session in Kenya for SGCI-funded researchers
Last week, the National Research Fund Kenya hosted the ‘Science Granting Councils Initiative 2023 Annual Forum and Global Research Council Meeting‘. The 5-day programme held space for an Academic Symposium, co-hosted with the Africa Open Science Platform (AOSP), which offered an opportunity to highlight projects funded by NRF Kenya and Read more…
Open Access
Can it please be easy to call for Peace?
Here are 15,438 scholarly works on #peacebuilding: lens.org/lens/search/scholar/list?q=peacebuilding 645 of these are open access and licensed as CC0, CC-BY and CC-BY-SA: https://www.lens.org/lens/search/scholar/…
AfricArXiv
Open Science workshop for Librarians
UbuntuNet Alliance under the AfricaConnect3 project invited 20 librarians to participate in a one-day Open Science training session a day before the UbuntuNet Connect 2023 Conference.