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.
Perspectives (blog)
Academia & World Wellness Weekend – Revitalize Your Research Journey
Join us on Friday, August 16, 2024 at 12pm CAT/CEST/UTC-2 as we showcase the exciting and energizing events of World Wellness Weekend, https://map.world-wellness-weekend.org/, and how to engage as scholars and academic institutions.
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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. []”
Do you remember Jon Tennant?
✨ Jon Tennant was a close friend and colleague of mine and many others. Huge amount of inspiration and motivation