Open source

« Academia has increasingly recognized software as an essential tool, product, and subject of study. In this regard, the « Software, Pillar of Open Science » (SPOS) workshop, held on November 29th, 2023, was a significant event organized by the French Committee for Open Science. This workshop brought together a large array of…

« (…) The main aim of this in-person half-day event, organized by the French Committee for Open Science on November 29th 2023, was to bring together high-level stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds, including researchers, research software engineers, research evaluation bodies, infrastructures, academic open source program offices (OSPOs), and financial backers,…

« Too often, the methods described in research papers are not reproducible because the code and/or data are simply not provided. As a result, it is hardly possible to verify the results and build upon these works. The Open Science movement is meant to fix this by fostering the unhindered spreading…

« Two years have sailed by since Europe PMC adopted the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) in February 2021. POSI is a set of guidelines for open scholarly infrastructure providers and outlines how these organisations should be run and sustained. It offers a framework to uphold transparency and accountability. (…)

« Research data management (RDM) in academic scientific environments increasingly enters the focus as an important part of good scientific practice and as a topic with big potentials for saving time and money. Nevertheless, there is a shortage of appropriate tools, which fulfill the specific requirements in scientific research. (…) »

« L’Inist CNRS a confié à Marmelab le développement de l’outil LODEX. Nous avons déjà écrit il y a quelques années un article technique sur ce beau projet open-source au service du bien commun. Depuis, le projet a continué d’évoluer et est…

« Paper publications are no longer the only form of research product. Due to recent initiatives by publication venues and funding institutions, open access datasets and software products are increasingly considered research products and URIs to these products are growing more prevalent in scholarly publications. However, as with all URIs, resources…

« Each year, the Public Knowledge Project* (PKP) posts a very large, and rather dry, dataset at the Harvard Dataverse Project. This open data provides a summary of the known installations of PKP’s open source publishing software around the world (OJS for journals, OMP for…

« Universities are attempting to ensure that all of their research is publicly accessible because of funding mandates. Many universities have established campus open access (OA) repositories but are struggling with how to upload millions of manuscripts under numerous license agreements while also linking metadata to…

« PySciDetect est une version améliorée du logiciel open source SciDetect permettant de détecter les résultats et données de recherche frauduleux dès leur soumission.
Springer Nature lance PySciDetect, un logiciel open source de nouvelle génération pour détecter les recherches frauduleuses. Développé en interne avec Slimmer AI et publié en collaboration…