In a world where scientific progress holds the key to solving humanity’s most pressing challenges, Henri Max Deda, co-founder of scienceOS.ai, shares his journey from molecular biologist to science communicator and entrepreneur. Speaking with Jo Havemann, Deda reflects on how his diverse background and a pivotal lecture on the “Network Effect” inspired him to co-create a platform that empowers researchers to collaborate and innovate more effectively.
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.
AfricArXiv, a free digital archive for African research, has played a pivotal role in advancing open science on the continent. Established in 2018 and hosted by UbuntuNet Alliance since 2023, the platform is being tailored towards meeting the needs of African researchers, leveraging the Alliance’s extensive network.
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.
Presented to you by Veronica Espinoza, explore eight open-access tools (web-based) that will help you accelerate your research process.
Nici Pfieffer is Chief Product Officer at the Center for Open Science and in that position works towards enabling researchers to share their work to advance the transparency and reproducibility of science. With Jo, she talks about the importance of open digital infrastructure and how she contributes to research rigor and the achievements made through her work.
In today’s episode, Jo talks with Abigail Dean about her personal experience from working in the conservation and environmental research field to citizen science projects to web design and social media. Abigail shares her insights about the importance of being able to communicate research and science in a digestible way to the general public that doesn’t have a science background.
Digital tools that support open science practices play a key role in the seamless accumulation, archiving and dissemination of scholarly data, outcomes and conclusions. Despite their integration into open science practices, the providence and design of these digital tools are rarely explicitly scrutinized.
Tim Blais is the creative everything at A Capella Science and has a Master’s degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The infographic shows how to achieve 100% Open Access for free and legally; available on figshare.
