Open Science

🗞️🌶️: 🔓 🎓 Find and/or contribute to a curated list of useful resources that can enhance a university library website, […]

Please consider participating in the UNESCO consultation and join us for the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Cape Town: https://doasummit.uct.ac.za/.

How can OS help to give harbour to scholars during a crisis?

A session summary from this year's Open Science Barcamp held in Potsdam, Germany.

How can we foster an environment where scholarly services can thrive with whichever business and taxation model may work best in a given (geographical and institutional) setting?

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.

A gentle reminder from the past about the hashtag#OpenScience Principles My dearly missed friend and colleague, the late Jon Tennant […]

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).

This year's Open Science Barcamp will be held on 5 September, on-site in Potsdam, and can also be joined online.

The DIAMAS project‘s new report, “National Overviews on Sustaining Institutional Publishing in Europe,” explores Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing in […]

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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.

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.

"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. []"

Animal Welfare is a core component of Open Science for various reasons.

Presented to you by Veronica Espinoza, explore eight open-access tools (web-based) that will help you accelerate your research process.

Last week, the National Research Fund Kenya hosted the ‘Science Granting Councils Initiative 2023 Annual Forum and Global Research Council […]

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 […]

UbuntuNet Alliance under the AfricaConnect3 project invited 20 librarians to participate in a one-day Open Science training session a day before the UbuntuNet Connect 2023 Conference.

Presentation held at the II DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS CONFERENCE, October 25 - 26, 2023. Toluca, Mexico

To encourage scholarly publishing venues and research institutions to adopt the SDG indicator taxonomy for solution-oriented research output that allows for direct application to societal and environmental interventions to mitigate climate change, forced migration, war and conflict, and other existential crises of our times. 

As part of the IBRO World Congress 2023 (9-13 September - Granada, Spain), the ALBA Network and the IBRO Early Career Committee partnered to facilitate a wide-ranging discussion of what neuroscientists can do as a community to build research capacity in the Global South, and how this increase in local capacities for research and innovation can, in the broader picture, bring benefits to us all.