Perspectives on Open Science and Inequity: Who is left behind?
[originally published at zbw-mediatalk.eu] Due to precautionary measures in regard to the coronavirus, the second day of this year’s Open […]
Open Science
Harnessing the Open Science infrastructure for an efficient African response to COVID-19 [preprint]
With the current coronavirus pandemic, the urgent need for Open Access to research results will increase scientific public domain knowledge to COVID-19 related literature hence enabling African researchers to develop African-centered solutions towards combating the SARS-CoV 2 virus, while at the same time strengthening the local biomedical resources of African countries and increasing their preparedness for future outbreaks. This applies to both global and regional levels. Previous virus outbreaks, such as the recent Western African Ebola and Zika epidemics, …
Day 8: Leveraging Open Hardware to Alleviate the Burden of COVID-19 on Global Health Systems
Maia Chagas, A.; Molloy, J.; Prieto Godino, L.; Baden, T. Leveraging Open Hardware to Alleviate the Burden of COVID-19 on
Day 3: Project Management
Scientists often run three or more highly complex projects in parallel. On top of that, a growing number of publishers
Day 1: Open Science
We are inviting you for a virtual collaborative writing sprint around Scholarly Communication and soft skills development for researchers. Agenda:
Open Science Online Training package for African scientists
AfricArxiv is a free, open source and community-led digital archive for African research output in the form of a non-profit open source platform for African scientists to upload their working papers, pre-prints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), and published papers as well as associated data packages and article versioning. AfricArxiv is dedicated to enhance and open up research and collaboration among African scientists and non-African scientists that work on African topics.
ZBW Mediatalk interview about AfricArXiv and language diversity in Science
The following interview was originally published at zbw-mediatalk.eu and licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0. Enjoy the read! Fostering transparency,
Open Source software and tools for better research
The first webinar of the Open Science MOOC focused on Module 5: Open Research Software and Open Source and was pesented
Community driven peer review for preprints
A couple of days ago on May 15th in Leipzig, Germany at the Mx Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA),
Open Science, Perspectives (blog), Research Articles, Science Communication
Science in Crisis – Is Open Science the Solution?
Since Open Science has become a recurring buzzword for recent meta-scientific developments, this article summarizes what these developments entail. What are the reasons for discussions about Open Access, Open Data and Open Peer Review? Which technological changes can we expect and which impact will they have on society and the research community?