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…
Perspectives (blog)
London Book Fair 2024: challenges for publishers
I went to London with a purpose. It’s always good to meet collaborators and friends, but I had other goals with my visit. You see, it’s never good when the decisions that impact us are arrived at without our input.
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. []”
Perspectives (blog)
Do you remember Jon Tennant?
✨ Jon Tennant was a close friend and colleague of mine and many others. Huge amount of inspiration and motivation I received from him. 🔷 Thanks to Jon, I founded and managed AfricArXiv for more than 5 years and counting. 🔷 Thanks to Jon, I finetuned and designed Access 2 Read more…
Perspectives (blog)
Meet the Access 2 Perspectives co-creatives team 2024
🏵 Here is for you the collective brain-power to energize #researchmanagement, #scholarlypublishing, and #sciencecommunication embedded in #openscience principles as well as #healthandwellbeing practices. 🔹 Dra. Verónica Espinoza 🔹 Julie Sara Wren 🔹 Keletso Masisi 🔹 Maureen Archer, PhD 🔹 .Aravinth Panch. 🔹 Duncan Nicholas 🔹 Martin Delahunty 🔹 Farah Hussain Read more…
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.
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/…