« This output from the CoARA Working Group « Towards Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment (OI4RRA) » presents a conceptual architecture to guide the implementation of Responsible Research Assessment based on Open Infrastructures. It introduces a four-tier model, covering persistent identifiers and metadata standards, open publishing venues, metadata aggregation, and assessment support…
« This paper proposes the development of a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation national node for Ireland (EOSC Ireland). EOSC Ireland will be a digital platform that connects researchers and research infrastructures across Ireland to the European-wide EOSC Federation. It allows researchers to share and access data, tools, and applications,…
« The landscape of academic publishing, including in geochemistry and cosmochemistry, is evolving toward greater openness and accessibility. This editorial outlines the vision for Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, a diamond open access journal that eliminates article processing charges and prioritizes equitable access to scientific knowledge. The journal’s commitment to Open…
« How do you prevent the crucial software of Open Science from vanishing into the digital ether? At the University of São Paulo, Roberto Di Cosmo, Software Heritage co-founder, detailed the infrastructure the organization has built to rescue and democratize the vast codebase underpinning scientific progress. (…) »
« California Digital Library (CDL) is proud to formally endorse the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and commit to supporting and participating in open, transparent and community-governed research information systems. (…) »
« POLEN, the digital service of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), developed by FCCN, has launched its new official website – a space dedicated to managing and sharing research data, promoting the practice of Open Science. (…) »
« (…) Aiming to further inform educational work on open and impactful academic publishing in the digital era, we posed selected questions to Stevan Harnad 30 years after his « subversive proposal » to maximize research impact by self-archiving scholarly articles in university-hosted or disciplinary online repositories to make published articles openly available.…
« Open science, as emphasised in the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, promotes inclusive, transparent, and collaborative research practices, ensuring that scientific knowledge is accessible to all. As global adoption accelerates, monitoring becomes essential to assess impact, identify gaps, and strengthen implementation strategies.
Launched in September 2022,
« With the advent of the digital age, the way we create and consume information is changing. New ways of capturing and communicating the research process digitally give us the opportunity to honour the norms of open science by showcasing and enabling the re-use of a much broader range of contributions…
« From 13 to 14 March 2025, the OSTrails consortium convened in Athens for its first General Assembly—a key milestone that marked OSTrails’ transition from early development to integrated implementation and broader adoption. (…)
A Look Back: What We Discussed
Day 1 focused on the project’s core technical components,…
