First insights from the Swiss institutional repository survey – NAIF Early results from NAIF Track 3’s first national survey of Swiss institutional repositories show a diverse landscape with strong technical foundations, uneven metadata alignment, and clear priorities ...

What does the Swiss institutional repository landscape look like? NAIF survey dataset is now on Zenodo. 39 Swiss HEIs, 113 questions about infrastructure, metadata, interoperability & governance. First insights👇 & full analysis report coming end of 2026 eth-library.github.io/naif/posts/2...

Mapping Swiss Institutional Repositories: A National Survey Dataset (NAIF Track 3) This dataset contains the survey instrument and pseudonymized response dataset produced by Track 3 of the NAIF project (National Approach for Interoperable Repositories and Findable Research Results), a national initiative co-funded by swissuniversities and eight Swiss higher education institutions (ETH Library, University of Zurich, EPFL, ZHAW, PHSG, University of Fribourg, University of Neuchâtel, and University of St.Gallen), running from July 2025 to December 2026. The survey mapped how institutional repositories across Swiss higher education are governed, technically configured, and sustained, covering infrastructure, metadata practices, interoperability, and long-term sustainability. It was administered via SurveyHero between November 5, 2025 and January 15, 2026, targeting swissuniversities-accredited institutions and institutions participating in the Swiss Open Access Monitor. The dataset contains 35 completed responses representing 39 institutions. The full analysis — including descriptive statistics, thematic findings, gap analysis, and recommendations — will be published as a separate report later in 2026.

Mapping Swiss Institutional Repositories: A National Survey Dataset (NAIF Track 3) infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/product/39ec481...

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Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information < Couperin GTSO Groupe de travail Science ouverte

#VeilleESR Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information - Couperin a signé la Déclaration de Barcelone, affirmant ainsi son engagement en faveur d’un écosystème de l’information scientifique plus ouvert et transparent.
Couperin : www.couperin.org/le-consortiu...

Why Stevan Harnad Has Been Dreaming of Chatbots All Along The open access pioneer on the movement’s halting trajectory and thinking in the age of the large language model.

Why Stevan Harnad Has Been Dreaming of Chatbots All Along | Katina Magazine katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-kno...

Dashboard showing 40K grants, 250K relationships, 200K research outputs, with a time-series chart growing from 2019 to 2025..

Where did the funding come from? 250K grant-to-output relationships discovered. 1% directly deposited. 99% found thru matching. More funders registering grants = more connections.

❤️ Dataset: https://doi.org/10.13003/waej1een
❤️ Blog: https://doi.org/10.64000/he02b-neb96
#LoveData26

Love Data Week graphic showing counts of journal articles, preprints, relationships, and matching article to preprints.

Where's the Data? → Where did this preprint end up?
Dominika Tkaczyk built a matching strategy to discover #preprint→article relationships—dataset now public with 1,060,573 relationships.

🔗 Dataset: https://doi.org/10.13003/ac2ienay
🔗 Blog: https://doi.org/10.64000/dpcc9-k4564

#LoveData26

📊 Open Science in Action: the Université de Lorraine Shifts to #OpenAlex for Bibliometric Reports!

The Bibliometrics team at the Université de Lorraine has taken a major step in its open science commitment by using OpenAlex for the first time in the annual bibliometric report for the A2F […]

Travail passionnant de #COMET sur la réconciliation des affiliations (+ alignement ROR) des auteurs de preprints dans le corpus arXiv 👏👏👏. La vidéo présentant ce projet : www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC-x... et les slides sont accessibles sur Zenodo (à p. de la 20) : doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Happy to share the #SOAD Spring event: The @barcelonadori.bsky.social in #Switzerland!
Meet representatives of the first three Swiss signatories & learn about their motivation to sign and the measures planned and implemented!
🗓️11 March, 15:30 - 17:00
💻 Free & online via Zoom
📝Register via soad.ch

Le processus est engagé à compter de… Maintenant.
Il faut donc trouver un nouveau job, en activant les procédures internes de nos institutions respectives.
Si par ailleurs vous avez des pistes, nous sommes preneurs - mon CV est ici www.face-ecran.fr/sites/defaul...
Mes MP sont ouverts.

Merci Laurent ! pour le second souci, je crois que celui là n'est pas nouveau et est lié aux preprints arxiv qui semblent parfois raccrochés aux dois publisher VoR

Anyone else noticing potential author-data duplication in some recent #OpenAlex works? Looks like something odd is happening in the metadata.
Examples: openalex.org/works?page=1... openalex.org/works?page=1... openalex.org/works?page=1...

👏👏👏 et merci pour l'organisation !

🌍🔓 EPFL backs key Swiss & global OA initiatives via SCOSS, helping sustain vital platforms like arXiv, DOAJ, Episciences & Open Policy Finder. Together, we’re keeping Open Science open, reliable & accessible.

🔗 go.epfl.ch/openaccess

#OAWeek #OpenScience #OAinitiatives #SCOSS

The EPFL Research Data Support Network is officially launched! Bringing together experts to boost collaboration and best practices in RDM and ORD.

💡 Learn how it started and what’s next for a FAIR, sustainable data ecosystem: actu.epfl.ch/news/the-epf...

#RDM #OpenScience #FAIRdata

GitHub ROR Release v1.73.

A new version of the ROR registry has been released! 🎉 As always, new and modified records are immediately available in the ROR API, and the latest data can be downloaded from Zenodo at doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Read what's new in release v1.73. github.com/ror-communit...

📊 ReadMETRICS à la une dans Arabesques !

Découvrez la boîte à outils dédiée à la mesure des usages des ressources électroniques, développée par l’Inist et Couperin.org.

🔎 À lire dans Arabesques n°118 : publications-prairial.fr/arabesques/i...

Research Data Workshop #2 with Dr. Guillaume Anciaux
📅 Nov 13, 2025 | 12:15–13:15

Part of EPFL Research Data Week
Full program: go.epfl.ch/erdw
💬 Register: go.epfl.ch/erdw-form

Calling all colleagues at Swiss higher education institutions! How do you use data, code and software? Participate in the 2025 National Research Data Management Survey

Take the survey: library-survey.epfl.ch/c/4ri-rdm-su...

Learn more: www.lib4ri.ch/take-part-na...

Understanding Open Access publishing costs at EPFL Academic publishing has been progressively shifting from traditional subscription-based models to Open Access, placing increasing financial pressure on libraries and researchers. To better understand ...

💸✨ Academic publishing is evolving and so are its costs. We analyzed how Open Access publishing expenses have changed and where they are concentrated across our institution.
Explore the full findings: actu.epfl.ch/news/underst...

#OAWeek #OpenScience #ScholarlyPublishing #OAcosts

Development of an #OpenScience Monitor for the Netherlands!

A consortium with @cwtsnl.bsky.social and Dialogic, funded by @opensciencenl.bsky.social, will develop a framework and dashboard in co-creation with the community. Your input is highly appreciated: www.openscience.nl/en/news/deve...

Merci bcp pour le retour détaillé. C’est une bonne chose de savoir que vous travaillez étroitement avec SCOSS. Et surtout bravo encore pour cette initiative.

Merci Alain ☺️ Pour ma part, j’ai plutôt l’impression d’avoir deux trains de retard et de courir après le temps pour rattraper (ou simplement faire avancer) tout ce qu’il faudrait. 😉

Tomorrow in Neuchâtel, ~20 colleagues from Swiss HEIs meet for a #NAIF workshop on improving academic metadata. Mapping how organisational, authorship, funding and OA data connect & finding new ways to make Swiss research information more visible. eth-library.github.io/naif/news.html

La NISO fait des propositions pour faciliter le suivi des publications en accès ouvert ; à commenter avant le 17/10/2025.

The Proceedings of WOOC 2025 are online! 🎉
📖 Index volume: zenodo.org/records/1719...
📚 All papers: zenodo.org/communities/...

@barcelonadori.bsky.social @opencitations.bsky.social @unibo.it #WOOC2025

3/3 “Establishing a negotiation framework and supporting resources will empower negotiators to set clear, consistent expectations.”
— Miranda Bennett (@caldiglib.bsky.social, OA2020)

2/3 “Many deals still leave basic metadata closed—universities can’t fully track their outputs.”
— @ludowaltman.bsky.social (CWTS, Barcelona Declaration)