« Research Data Management (RDM) is a system for the effective handling of research data that enables scientists to structure their research questions and ensure best practices throughout the data lifecycle, from acquisition, computation and annotation to data publication and re-use. Data management plans (DMPs) are documents that formally set out…
« On 23 May 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted Council Conclusions on “High quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing”.
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) welcomes the Council Conclusions and supports the landmark recommendations they put forward for the academic publication system. (…) »
« The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) supports the federal government’s current plans to introduce legislation on research data. In a recently published statement, the largest research funding organisation and central institution for science and research in Germany has systematised all the scientific positions on this and classified them into…
« 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 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…
« Academic publishing faces a number of challenges that can have a negative impact on science and the humanities. In particular, research assessment based on metrics can provide problematic incentives, thereby preventing the system of academic publication and research as a whole from developing in a way that is appropriate to…
« La présente synthèse préparée par le Comité des services des bibliothèques scientifiques et des systèmes d’information (AWBI) de la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Fondation allemande pour la recherche) porte sur le traçage des données dans les ressources électroniques de recherche et décrit les possibilités de pistage numérique des activités de recherche.…
« On 17 March 2022 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) signed an action plan to promote science-driven open access publishing infrastructures. The “Action Plan for Diamond Open Access” is an initiative by Science Europe, the cOAlition S, OPERAS (a European infrastructure for open science communication in the social sciences…
« Where in Germany is publicly funded research particularly strong? How much third-party funding goes to which federal states and regions and to which universities and non-university research institutes, who does it come from and how is it used by the recipients? And how significant is such funding as part of…
