« On 4 November, the Joint Science Conference (GWK) passed the decision to fund seven more consortia and one initiative to provide basic cross-consortia services within the framework of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). As in the two previous years, today’s decision by the GWK follows the recommendations put forward…
« ‘The current system for assessing research, researchers and research institutions does not incentivise or reward enough the quality of all research outputs in their diversity. It often relies on the quantity of publications in journals with high Journal Impact Factor and citations as mere proxies for quality and impact, thereby…
« The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) considers open science as scientific practices and processes that are established or designed to make research results openly accessible for the long term, thereby ensuring an increased uptake of these results by researchers and other stakeholders. The DFG regards open science as a…
« The presidents of the DFG and the German Rectors’ Conference explain why the analyses and conclusions in the Funding Atlas 2021 are important not just to individual research institutions, but to German research policy as a whole.
This is the ninth edition of the DFG Funding Atlas. Every three…
« The German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat) welcomes the initiative to form a Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). While the Council is not among the first signatories of the agreement, it will discuss this option in view of the proposals for the governance of the coalition, and the resource…
« Finding a suitable open access journal to publish scientific work is a complex task: Researchers have to navigate a constantly growing number of journals, institutional agreements with publishers, funders’ conditions and the risk of Predatory Publishers. To help with these challenges, we introduce a web-based journal recommendation system called B!SON.…
(…) The Helmholtz Association is leading in generating, managing and providing access to research data.
• Research Data Management is a prerequisite for Open Research Data at Helmholtz.
• The Helmholtz Open Science Office promotes the coordination of the Centers and supports them in developing…
« TIB endorses the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access initiated by several European organizations. In doing so, it is underlining its desire to achieve a large-scale and fair transition to open access. This is necessarily dependent on an open infrastructure. The endorsement of the plan joins many…
« We present hoaddata, an experimental R package that combines open scholarly data from the German Open Access Monitor, Crossref and OpenAlex. Using this package, we illustrate the progress made in publishing open access content in hybrid journals included in nationwide transformative agreements in Germany across journal portfolios and countries. (…) »
« Diamond Open Access Journals, Germany’ (DOAG) is a quality controlled list that contains information about diamond open access (OA) journals hosted in Germany. It was created by using different data sources that are free of charge and was compiled from March 2022 to May 2022. (…) »
