« Some of the world’s leading institutions, experts and scientific infrastructures relating to biodiversity information are uniting around a new 10-year roadmap to ‘liberate’ data presently trapped in research publications.
The initiative aims to enable the creation of a ‘Libroscope’ – a mechanism for unlocking and linking data from scientific…
« The Open Access (OA) movement is quite complex: it involves diverse principles, models, and policy frameworks. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce learners to the origins and evolution of Open Access and provide insights into its objectives and global impact. (…) »
« OPERAS is a European research infrastructure that supports greater visibility and impact across social sciences and humanities (SSH).
As the European Research Infrastructure dedicated to supporting open scholarly communication in SSH within the European Research Area (ERA), OPERAS works to overcome the disconnect between funding and…
« Transformative agreements have become an important strategy in the transition to open access, with almost 1,200 such agreements registered by 2025. Despite their prevalence, these agreements suffer from important transparency limitations, most notably article-level metadata indicating which articles are covered by these agreements. Typically, this data is available to libraries…
« In 2022, the U.S. government released new guidelines for making publicly funded research open and available. For the National Science Foundation (NSF), these policies reinforce requirements in place since 2016 for supported research to be submitted to the Public Access Repository (PAR). (…) »
« This Statement of Intent is signed by public research funding bodies, research performing organisations, and national ministries (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Signatories’) that are part of the Open Research Europe Interest Group. Together, the Signatories are committed to the development of Open Research Europe (ORE), an open access publishing…
« Open repositories were created to enhance access and visibility of scholarly publications, driven by open science ideals emphasising transparency and accessibility. However, they lack mechanisms to update the status of corrected or retracted publications, posing a threat to the integrity of the scholarly record. To explore the scope of the…
« The objective of ALMASI is to provide the research community with an aligned, nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem across three world regions: Africa, Europe, and Latin America. This will enable scholarly communities to take full responsibility for innovative, valid, reliable and accessible publishing services and solutions that do…
« OPERAS, the research infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities, collectively gathered a landmark report titled « Fostering Trust in the Digital Age ». Featuring 27 papers from the TrustOn2024 Workshop and a session at the Science Summit at the 79th United Nations General Assembly,…
« The new feature automatically updates the Octopus platform with government priorities to transform how researchers and policymakers collaborate. (…) »
