« TIB signs Expression of Interest, stating its commitment to contribute to transformation to Open Access
The international initiative Open Access 2020 – or OA2020 for short – actively promotes the conversion of the majority of existing journals…
« Federally funded research will now come with an open access clause – but uncertainties remain.
All research funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will have to be open access, it has been announced, but the strategy does not…
« The Research Data Alliance (RDA) builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data for research. Building on this effort, this Workshop establishes a forum to discuss ideas and advancements towards the revision of current scientific communication practices in order to support Open…
« In June, the German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures (RfII) has published some recommendations on determinats of future research data management and the development of corresponding infrastructures.
(…) The RfII attaches particular importance to international collaboration, for the flow of digital information (like research) knows no…
« Nationwide project GeRDI to set up a linked research data infrastructure as a German contribution to the European Open Science Cloud.
Leibniz Information Centre for Economics heads the GeRDI – Generic Research Data Infrastructure which aims to virtually link existing and future research data centres…
« The “ORCID DE” project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Technische Informationsbibliothek – German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) on the establishment and operation of an ORCID consortium for research institutions in Germany. (…) »
« While open access (OA) has become a significant part of scientific communication and academic publishing, qualification issues have been out of focus in the OA community until recent years. Based on findings about the qualification for OA within university-based programs in France and Germany the authors surveyed continuing…
« The Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany recommends scientific institutions to disclose payments of Open Access publication fees to make the cost structure of the Open Access publication market clearly recognizable. (…) »
Les « Helmholtz Innovation…
« Scientific publications involving scientists from the Helmholtz Association should be freely available to the public. This is the intention of a new open access policy recently adopted by the Assembly of Members of Germany’s largest research organisation. According to this policy, publications in the natural sciences should be…
