« (…) The project develops a sustainable model of publisher-independent, quality-assured OA journals in small, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary subjects. In this regard, it follows-up on a major result of the project “Innovative Open Access in Small Sciences” (2019-2021, DFG-funding). Furthermore, Scholar-led+ improves communication between central actors in the OA ecosystem: funding…
« This article describes some use case studies and self-assessments of FAIR status of de.NBI services to illustrate the challenges and requirements for the definition of the needs of adhering to the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) data principles in a large distributed bioinformatics infrastructure. We address the challenge of…
« Le gouvernement allemand veut créer une culture de partage ouvert des données – et donne le bon exemple. La deuxième loi portant sur l’ouverture des données, que le cabinet a adoptée mercredi (10 février), étend les obligations des autorités publiques de mettre leurs données à la disposition du grand public.…
« (…) Eight key Open Science actors in Germany founded the German Reproducibility Network. This cross-disciplinary consortium is dedicated to promote reproducible and robust research on a national level. (…) »
« Funding of publication costs and targeted support for research-friendly publication infrastructures / Topics and background information on the DFG website
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is increasing its efforts to enable free online access to publications and other research findings. The DFG has adopted and implemented further…
« The DFG supports open access. Important with respect to DFG funding is the stated benefit of this publishing method in the respective scientific context. The DFG does not see open access as an end in itself, but as a tool in its efforts to promote scholarly communication in a manner…
« Starting 1st January 2021, zbMATH is becoming an open access database. The mathematical community is invited to participate in its further development. This can be done either by becoming a reviewer or by sharing your ideas about the future development…
« What is the state of science in Germany these days? The Barometer for the Academic World has been dedicated to answering this since 2010, examining areas such as Open Data, Open Access, Peer Review and the question of how trustworthy scientific knowledge actually still is. We took a look at…
« We are very happy to announce that our new Information Platform on Research Data Management has now gone live. You can reach it at https://rdm.mpdl.mpg.de. There you will find a lot of useful information on research data management in English, including Data Management Plans, repository selection…
« We are very pleased to announce that the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Acting in the capacity of the German National Library of Science and Technology, as well as architecture, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics, the TIB – Leibniz Information…
