Special Edition Newsletter • Week 51/2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of our newsletter. With our weekly news, we share with you insights and guidance for […]
Science Communication
Newsletter • Week 45/2025
In this week’s issue, we reflect on our time at UbuntuNet-Connect 2025 in Harare, Zimbabwe, where we facilitated the Open
Identifiers and Inequality: Reassessing PIDs Through a Global Equity Lens
Sergio Santamarina works as a librarian at a public university in Argentina, and has a focus on open science practices and challenges in Latin America. Together with Jo, he explores issues around open access publishing requirements, the cost barriers for obtaining Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) in Latin American universities, and the importance of decentralized networks and persistent identifiers in research.
Institutional access to open and affordable educational resources – A conversation with Tom Mosterd
In this episode, Tom Mosterd – co-founder of Sylla, talks about his journey in the open-access movement and the vision
AI and Its Conflicting Objectives from a Sustainability Perspective – A conversation with Friederike Rohde about the relationship between AI and global climate justice
Dr Friederike Rohde is a sustainability researcher with a background in science and technology studies. She is committed to the
Welcome to our 2025 Course Catalogue
This year, we are glad to offer a range of courses specifically designed for researchers and professionals in globally inclusive academic environments.
Scholarly services incubating environments
How can we foster an environment where scholarly services can thrive with whichever business and taxation model may work best in a given (geographical and institutional) setting?
Open Science workshop in Zambia
We were enormously honored to deliver a workshop on Open Science, Open Data and Open Repositories to librarians at the 2024 Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN) Week & Annual General Meeting.
Open Science MOOC Module 1
A gentle reminder from the past about the hashtag#OpenScience Principles My dearly missed friend and colleague, the late Jon Tennant
New tips for academic publishers aim to boost SDG delivery
New advice for the global academic publishing sector has been released that aims to link academics with civil society, businesses and governments, so that innovations can be more widely understood and can contribute to the more effective delivery of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).