Day 1: Open Science
We are inviting you for a virtual collaborative writing sprint around Scholarly Communication and soft skills development for researchers. Agenda: […]
COVID-19 Research & Outbreak Mitigation
Refer to the Wikipedia article 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic or the World Health Organization’s situation reports for most recent reported case information. Protect yourself and
Open Science Online Training package for African scientists
AfricArxiv is a free, open source and community-led digital archive for African research output in the form of a non-profit open source platform for African scientists to upload their working papers, pre-prints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), and published papers as well as associated data packages and article versioning. AfricArxiv is dedicated to enhance and open up research and collaboration among African scientists and non-African scientists that work on African topics.
Education Needs in Research Data Management
I worry that ‘I don’t know what I don’t know. That is the situation of many students when faced with
ZBW Mediatalk interview about AfricArXiv and language diversity in Science
The following interview was originally published at zbw-mediatalk.eu and licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0. Enjoy the read! Fostering transparency,
Open Source software and tools for better research
The first webinar of the Open Science MOOC focused on Module 5: Open Research Software and Open Source and was pesented
Community driven peer review for preprints
A couple of days ago on May 15th in Leipzig, Germany at the Mx Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA),
Open Science, Perspectives (blog), Research Articles, Science Communication
Science in Crisis – Is Open Science the Solution?
Since Open Science has become a recurring buzzword for recent meta-scientific developments, this article summarizes what these developments entail. What are the reasons for discussions about Open Access, Open Data and Open Peer Review? Which technological changes can we expect and which impact will they have on society and the research community?
Open Science and Research Data Management: a workshop review
As Open Data and the F.A.I.R. Principles are more and more becoming a standard in scientific processes, transparency and reproducibility
Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing
The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open Research’ has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated topics. […]