« The three EU-funded projects CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS & PALOMERA work towards an equitable future for scholarly communication, with the scholarly community at the centre. In this third instalment of the cross-project webinar series, which took place online on the 6th of November 2024 (…) »
« Helsinki Initiative organizes 2 December 2024 15:00-16:30 CET a webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with three presentations ranging from researchers’ use of different languages in scholarly work and communication to coverage of publication languages in OpenAlex database. The speakers include Ginevra Peruginelli, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia and Lucía Céspedes. The event…
« In a recent statement, ALLEA expresses its strong support for Secondary Publication Rights (SPRs), a legal mechanism that allows researchers to freely share publicly funded scholarly articles via institutional or other non-profit repositories. (…) »
« Scientists should be compensated and credited when artificial intelligence chatbots pull information from their papers, a collecting society has said. The call comes amid news that two major academic publishers sold access to their research papers and data to large tech firms to train their artificial intelligence models without consulting…
« In 2018, the Université de Lorraine (UL) laid the foundations for its Open Science (OS) policy by making its open repository the institution’s official bibliography. Today, it is involved in all OS areas: scientific publishing, research data, codes and software, bibliometrics. (…) »
« The richness of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing is characterised by its diversity: from the wide-ranging disciplines it serves in multiple languages to the types of organisations and networks involved in developing, running or maintaining it. Local, regional and national interests driving it are underpinned by the context of the…
« Since the Helsinki Initiative in 2019, language diversity and multilingualism have become key concerns in scholarly communication. (…)
This report presents an overview of the four exploratory studies conducted as part of the Translations and Open Science project in order to lay the foundations of a technology-aided collaborative translation…
« The development of policies in favour of open science and the transformation of publication channels for academic literature and research produced with public funding by researchers and authors in higher education, combined with technological and financial developments in open access models for scholarly publication and the interest shown by funders…
« Libraries are vital pillars of the Diamond Open Access (OA) ecosystem, providing infrastructure, services, and expert support to institutional publishers. Many libraries are also publishers in their own right. To engage libraries in advancing Diamond OA in Europe, the DIAMAS project is launching a Conversation Series for libraries. (…) »
« Representatives from the Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries (BTAA Libraries), California Digital Library (CDL) and Lyrasis attended the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Toluca, Mexico in October 2023. The Summit convened the international community to engage in dialog about how to advance Diamond Open Access(OA) to secure scholarly…
