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 […]
In memoriam of Jon Tennant
[originally published at opensciencemooc.eu] We are deeply saddened by the sudden death of our colleague Dr Jonathan (Jon) Tennant. Jon
Day 18: DIY sanitizer
University and research institute labs around the world have repurposed their inventory and skills set to produce self-made sanitizers. Here
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, …
African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape
The International African Institute (IAI, https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org) in collaboration with AfricarXiv (https://info.africarxiv.org) present an interactive map of African digital research literature repositories. This drew from IAI’s earlier work from 2016 onwards to identify and list Africa-based institutional repositories that focused on identifying repositories based in African university libraries. Our earlier resources are available at https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/repositories.
Day 11: Multilingual COVID-19 Information Videos
There is a lot of information circulating about COVID-19 – some more reliable than others. For many individuals, it is
Day 10: Mapping the COVID-19 global response
COVID-19 relevant information and resources by country License: CC-0 Click on individual nodes and view information by country info hotlines
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 2: Research Integrity
What do you think are integral parts of research integrity? What topics are entailed and should be discussed in all