Two main frameworks that shape research assessment in the NLs are moving to open research information in line with the #BarcelonaDeclaration: the new SEP protocol and NWO's evidence based CV.

A blog (w/ @ludowaltman.bsky.social) about context and importance:

upstream.force11.org/research-eva...

Funding metadata in OpenAlex: where are they now? | Sesame Open Science With a grant from Wellcome, OpenAlex is working to improve its coverage of funding metadata. The three-year project started in September 2025, and the effects are already visible. Building on an earli...

OpenAlex (openalex.org) is rapidly closing the gap in funding metadata coverage. Re-using a dataset of NWO-funded papers we find they're now on par with Scopus and just slightly behind Dimensions.

Full analysis with @hldejonge.bsky.social : 🔗 bmkramer.github.io/SesameOpenSc...

Happy to share our new piece (w/ @msphelps.bsky.social) on #metadata completeness in @crossref.bsky.social and submission systems was published by @plos.org. We'd be delighted to continue the conversation with publishers and submission system vendors:

👆🏾https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0345417

#researchsoftware makes modern science possible - but sustaining it is hard.

That’s why Open Science NL partnered with the @esciencecenter.bsky.social and awarded it €5.4M to execute the Research Software Sustainability Programme: www.openscience.nl/en/news/open...

#foss, #oss, #opensource

Investing €35M in Open Science Infrastructure: Insights from Open Science Netherlands Open Science NL has announced €35 million in funding for 45 projects aimed at strengthening Open Science infrastructure, supporting the tools, services, and platforms that researchers rely on to share...

Our interview with Hans de Jonge @opensciencenl.bsky.social features insights on goals, impact, and sustainability, informing national and wider European infrastructure strategies.

👉 www.openaire.eu/investing-35...

#OpenScience #ResearchInfrastructure #FAIR #OpenAIRE

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

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

Out now! Our new work programme for 2026-27.

Proud we could translate input from many in the community into this new programme: offering a wide range of funding opportunities from #citizenscience hubs and #AI in open science to making research outputs #FAIR, and improved access to #sensitivedata.

Just got home from the Netherlands #OpenScience Festival at the @rug.nl medical center. It was a wonderful edition, with more people attending than ever. So many are working on such great things. It’s really inspiring! #NOSF2025

But hey, who doesn’t want a sign like this in the garden?

1/2 Moving funding metadata forward: highlights from our round table (co-organized with @crossref.bsky.social)

New blog by @hldejonge.bsky.social , based on Working Group 3 (Funding Metadata)

• ~25% Crossref records have funding info ⬇️

Is there a relationship between the metadata publishers submit to Crossref and the submission systems they use? 🤔

We (w/ @msphelps.bsky.social) analyzed 153 publishers and 4 major systems to find out.

👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf...

#OpenScience #Crossref #OpenMetadata #BarcelonaDeclaration

The MetaROR Publish-Review-Curate Model: our experience as authors | Open Science NL As professionals working in open science and scholarly communication reform, we believe in practicing what we preach. That’s why we recently chose to publish an article using the…

QSS is now accepting articles that have gone through independent, open peer review via MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR). The authors of an article on tracking transformative agreements through open metadata shared their experiences using MetaROR's Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model:

Celebrating one year of Crossref Grant IDs at NWO - Crossref This month marks one year since the Dutch Research Council (NWO) introduced grant IDs—an important milestone in our journey toward more transparent and trackable research funding. We created over 1,60...

A blog post celebrating one year Crossref Grant IDs at The Dutch Research Council NWO: highlighting the enormous potential of the GLS, along the observation that publishers could step up their efforts to include funding metadata in their publications: doi.org/10.64000/dvq...

Funder information can now be added to bioRxiv preprints. Incorporation of funding organizations into the Research Organization Registry (ROR) means this is available as standardized metadata for articles.

connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/09...

We already suspected: it appears Kingy has a partner! Today he brought her along to be filmed by our backyard wild camera. #kingfisher #birdwatching #vroegevogels

We’re hiring: Executive Director - Open Science Hardware Foundation Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...

🚨 REMINDER: We're #hiring a new Executive Director!
📍 Remote ⏰ Full-time 💰 USD 100–115k
Help grow the OSHF, lead programs+fundraising, and support #openscience & #openhardware:
opensciencehardware.org/2025/07/were...

#job #opensource #sciencejob

Lobelia Tupa (L.)

How can you include #OpenScience practices in your teaching? Read how two Dutch professors -- Elen Le Foll and Ewout Meijer, in linguistics and psychology respectively -- asked students to preregister their term-paper analyses. Interesting idea! […]

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Five citizen science hubs receive funding | Open Science NL Open Science NL has awarded five grants of €400,000 each to expand citizen science hubs at research organisations. These grants will help foster knowledge exchange and strengthen expertise and support...

🎤 Open Science NL awards €2M to expand #citizenscience across the Netherlands! Five new hubs (€400k each) will connect professional researchers with everyday citizens to tackle challenges in health, urban living, and biodiversity. Democracy meets science! 🇳🇱

www.openscience.nl/en/news/five... 👆

Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

🎉 Netherlands University Presses (NUPs) receive €300,000 grant from @opensciencenl.bsky.social to strengthen diamond open access publishing! 💎 Building a sustainable, academic-led alternative free for both readers AND authors. #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience

www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran... 👆🏾

I can’t recommend the latest #jurassicpark movie. Even for a fan, this one is by far the worst of the sequel. Professionally I liked the #openscience subplot where Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey dedicate the dinosaur DNA samples to the public domain instead of a pharmaceutical company #CC0.

Meet Kingy! He has been a daily visitor to our backyard for the past few weeks! What a treat to have such a beautiful guest. #kingfisher #birdwatching #nature #vroegevogels

As we approach the summer holidays ☀️, please take a look at all the #openscience projects funded by @opensciencenl.bsky.social.

Since our launch in 2023, we’ve supported more than 130 projects📊, big and small. Now they’re all featured in our project database 🗂️

www.openscience.nl/en/projects 👆🏾

Great news announced today at #metascience2025 by @wellcometrust.bsky.social CEO John Arne Røttingen: WT wil join the #BarcelonaDeclaration and has awarded a grant to #OpenAlex to dramatically improve the state of grant metadata.

Congratulations!!🥂

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Will we see you on 24th of October in Groningen for the Open Science Festival? Registration is now open. Make sure to reserve a spot as soon as possible! 👇

Research on open science: help build a solid evidence base | Open Science NL Open Science NL invites interested parties to submit applications for the new call Research on open science. This call focuses on research into open science practices, with the aim of strengthening th...

Open Science NL is inviting researchers to submit proposals that contribute to building a robust evidence base needed to effectively promote open science in the Netherlands and beyond. The deadline for submissions is 16 September.
More information 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/rese...

A new funding opportunity to do research on #openscience. Open for researchers ánd professional support staff working in the NLs. Help build the evidence base for #openscience. A budget of 2,7m€ is available for ~10 projects of 250k€.

More information:
www.openscience.nl/en/news/rese...