Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency - Impact of Social Sciences Funder metadata is vital to understanding where research comes from & how it is used. But, to be truly effective it needs to be open to all.

💥New: Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency

✍️ @hldejonge.bsky.social Katharina Rieck & Zoé Ancion

#OpenResearch #ResearchFunding #ScholComm

Open and Engaged Conference 2025 - Who owns our knowledge? // British Library This year’s Open and Engaged Conference aligns with the Open Access Week 2025 theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, by exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is…

Happy Friday! Recordings and slides are now available from Open and Engaged Conference 2025: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" Here is the link to the collection of fantastic talks and presentations. #OpenEngaged doi.org/10.22020/dgz...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Open Research Information in Action: Institutional Journeys Toward Open Systems. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the ... Organized by the Barcelona Declaration’s working group on replacing closed systems (WG4) and the Helmholtz Open Science Office, this session showcases four institutional journeys from Europe and Latin...

📢 Join us for the webinar “Open Research Information in Action: Institutional Journeys Toward Open Systems”, co-organised by the Barcelona Declaration and @helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social 🤝

📅 Thu 4 Dec 2025 · 🕒 15:00–16:30 CET · 🌐 Online

Register at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Illustration with the title “A growing community driving change.” Below, text reads: “Advancing open research information takes collective action and institutions are aligning their efforts to make it possible.” Highlighted in a yellow box: “Welcome to our new signatories and supporters – Together, we are building a growing global community.” At the bottom, a group of six diverse people stand side by side, arms around each other. Two circular icons say: “We support the declaration!” with a handshake graphic, and “We signed the declaration!” with a pen graphic. The image is branded with the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information logo.

Graphic titled “A growing community: meet our new signatories and supporters.” Text reads: “Together, we are shaping the future of open research information.” Below, two colored boxes list organizations: Left box (purple): Universidade Lusófona, Portugal University of Tetova, North Macedonia Fundación OpenLab Ecuador Swiss Reproducibility Network – SwissRN Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain Right box (yellow): Open Knowledge Maps Wellcome Trust UiT The Arctic University of Norway KB, National Library of the Netherlands Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy At the bottom: website link “barcelona-declaration.org/signatories/” and two circular icons with the messages “We support the declaration!” and “We signed the declaration!” The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information logo appears in the lower right corner.

Graphic titled “Take part in shaping the future of open research information.” The main message reads: “An increasing number of institutions are working together towards open research information, guided by shared principles and concrete action. Your institution is invited to contribute to this collective initiative.” Below, two calls to action: “Learn more at: barcelona-declaration.org/” with a pointing hand icon. “To sign the Declaration, write to us at: contact@barcelona-declaration.org” with an envelope icon. At the bottom: two circular badges saying “We support the declaration!” and “We signed the declaration!”, and the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information logo in the corner.

🌐Olá, Përshëndetje, Hola, Hello, Hei, Grüezi, Ciao, Hallo…

A global community is growing around the Barcelona Declaration, working together for open research information.

Meet them all: 🔗 barcelona-declaration.org/signatories/

#OpenResearchInformation

Our paper describing the adaptation of the Datatags project to the European GDPR and the Spanish legislation is available as preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2505.15183

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There’s still time to join us for this Open 2.0 webinar exploring the practice of #DiamondOA publishing.

📅 June 20, 2:30 PM CET
📝 Register: plos.io/4kPjcND
🤝 Panelists: @jeroenson.bsky.social @opensciencenl.bsky.social, Iva Melinscak Zlodi #DIAMAS Project, Hanjo Hamann @globalyacademy.bsky.social

🚨 #RetainYourRights: Only 2 weeks left before the next meet-up of the European #RightsRetention Community of Practice.
Join us on 30 June (11:30 CEST) to explore the role of rights retention in achieving #OpenAccess with KR21 project partner @sparc-eu.bsky.social.
🎟️ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Sesión “La gestión de los datos de investigación”, a cargo de Ignasi Labastida (en abierto) El 16 de junio de 2025, el Observatorio de Bioética y Derecho y el Máster en Bioética y Derecho de la Universidad de Barcelona, con el apoyo de la Asociación de Bioética y Derecho, organizan la sesión...

🔊 Sessió: "La gestió de les dades de recerca" amb @ilabastida.bsky.social
📅 16/06
⌚ 18:00h
📋 Inscripcions per assistir presencialment o en línia obertes
🔗 www.bioeticayderecho.ub.edu/es/sesion-ge...
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Updates on access to Library resources (journals). In January, there will be changes to access to some Library resources (journals).

"Elsevier is a large publisher & the read-only journal subscriptions no longer represent value for money for our university, taking up funds that could be used to better support research, teaching & learning."

Open dataset of annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) of gold and hybrid journals published by Elsevier, Frontiers, MDPI, PLOS, Springer-Nature and Wiley 2019-2023 This open dataset of annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) was produced from the price lists of six large scholarly publishers (Elsevier, Fronti...

Another great collaboration with colleagues at the #ScholCommLab (none of whom seem to be here yet): Stef, Juan, Leigh-Ann, Maddie, and Nina.

Our open dataset of >36,000 #APCs from 8,712 journals by six publishers, 2019-2023, is available now for you to explore and use at doi.org/10.7910/DVN/....

🪼 Welcome JUST-OS!

JUST-OS is an exciting initiative by researchers at the University of Groningen and FORRT (@forrt.bsky.social; forrt.org). We’re developing an AI-based chatbot to simplify navigating Open Science resources.

Challenges in Research Policy This open access volume examines significant challenges in research policy, offering expert insights and policy recommendations on critical issues.

New edited volume:
Challenges in Research Policy
And it's open access! 👍

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...