#openscience

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Setkání na téma Open Science v Národní technické knihovně

Na začátku června se v Národní technické knihovně konala první česká událost s názvem „National EOSC Tripartite Event“ následovaná Národním dnem otevřené vědy. Obě akce měly za cíl přivést k jednomu stolu všechny zúčastněné strany a poskytnout jim aktuální informace o evropské politice v oblasti otevřené vědy a stavu implementace EOSC v České republice.

V rámci příkladů dobré praxe na akci vystoupila také ředitelka Nakladatelství Munipress Alena Mizerová, která prezentovala aktivity Masarykovy univerzity v oblasti Diamond Open Access.

Otevřený přístup k vědeckým publikacím (Open Access) je totiž jedním z pilířů otevřené vědy, takže téma Open Access v Česku nemohlo chybět. Z našeho pohledu se bohužel přehnaně zdůrazňovaly tzv. transformační dohody (transformative agreements), které jsou bezesporu významné a aktuální, diskuzi kolem Open Access však nelze redukovat jen na ně. (Více o tomto tématu v některém z dalších příspěvků.)

Od roku 2020 se mluví o přístupu Diamond Open Access, což je model vědeckého publikování, v němž časopisy nevybírají poplatky ani od autorů, ani od čtenářů (více např. zde). Právě tento způsob se ukazuje jako nosný pro ideály open science a získává si větší a větší podporu v rámci Evropy (viz nedávné rozhodnutí Rady EU o otevřeném vědeckém publikování).

Masarykova univerzita vydává 45 „diamantových open access“ časopisů, z nichž mnohé mají velmi dobrou pověst a jsou indexovány předními vědeckými platformami. Z diskuze, která se na toto téma rozvinula, vyplynulo, že by bylo velmi vhodné „diamantový“ přístup podporovat i v Česku, ale chybí data o financování těchto časopisů. Munipress se v tomto ohledu rozhodl hozenou rukavici zdvihnout, spojit síly s dalšími českými vydavateli „diamatových“ odborných časopisů a chybějící data poskytnout. Věříme, že to bude další krok na cestě nejen k uznání, ale také k podpoře Diamond Open Access přístupu v České republice.

[chemistryonline24]

[kevlo75]

In fiber optic or free space infrastructures, photonic components and opto-electronic equipment form the backbone of our telecommunications networks. Photonic technologies are available on different network segments ranging from spatial interconnections, international and national, to the supply of our homes (FTTH – Fiber To The Home) or mobile sites (FTTAntenna). #light #photonics #openscience #frenchtech #internationallightday #illelumiere #ithra #optics #scienceforkids 🌌🔭 #champslibres #rennes (à Les Champs Libres) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co_5fWtLg02/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[portalfrasedodia]

#edulivros @unescobrasil Feliz #DiaMundialdaCiência! Cooperação🤝 Diálogo💬 Entendimento💞 #OpenScience reúne cientistas, independentemente de suas origens culturais, políticas e religiosas. Vamos celebrar juntos e promover a ciência e a inovação para todos! https://on.unesco.org/3hwmXfS https://www.instagram.com/p/Cky7i2NgB3z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[journalpublishing]

This study offers a succinct vade mecum on how to benefit from the open science approach to scholarly communication, no matter whether in natural or in humanistic and social sciences.

Reaping the benefits of open science in scholarly communication

[momofthreesillyboys]

##Repost @alleninstitute with @get_repost ・・・ "Every morning, like at work, I start my day off with coffee with two of my teammates, Amy & Thanh. We catch each other up on what is going on. We plan our day & we see where we can help each other." As many science researchers, educators and students adjust to science-ing at home we want you to know that we are all in this together. Check out our Instagram Story today to see how our Delissa McMillen is adjusting to working from home. #StillOpenForScience. #HowToScienceAtHome #OpenScience #WorkingFromHome #HereAtAllen #momof3sillyboys https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ioKiSJcEr/?igshid=1soxe065nayru

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Is It Time for the Virtual Scientific Conference?: Coronavirus, Travel Restrictions, Conferences Cancelled

Is It Time for the Virtual Scientific Conference?: Coronavirus, Travel Restrictions, Conferences Cancelled

Is It Time for the Virtual Scientific Conference?: Coronavirus, Travel Restrictions, Conferences Cancelled

Curator: Stephen J. Williams, PhD.

To many of us scientists, presenting and attending scientific meetings, especially international scientific conferences, are a crucial tool for disseminating and learning new trends and cutting edge findings occurring in our respective fields.  Large…

[junemanthumb]

Early December, full of grace; being a guest speaker, visiting scholar @ The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/english/intercult #GlobalMinds #GlobalSouth #OpenAccess #OpenScience #SainsTerbuka #OpenAccessID #VisitingScholar #PublikasiIlmiah #TerbukaAtauTertinggal #FosteringAndEmpowering (at KU Leuven) https://www.instagram.com/p/B58wvZjh-y7/?igshid=1uftvn8yi6vmu

[nihongochat-com-blog]

Start #rain #Rio #Cafe | クリスマスな街中で一息。日本の地震は落ち着きましたかね？｜ hirosato.info/os 整備な1日 #openscience | FB API , curl 少し | 風邪はだいぶ快方へ 昨日はケーキがあかんかった、砂糖か油か…（？） https://www.instagram.com/p/B5tHY68FFP3/?igshid=5vmpqlw5ke62

[lawandit]

#sommerdiskurs #shs #sommerhochschule #openscience #wirnennenesarbeit (hier: Strobl) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0nm2rooC66SlLA6qBIyQhAvsTkNYEMPiC09og0/?igshid=1kt4dl19xxf4o

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[kamitani-lab]

オープンサイエンスのすすめ/Open Science at Kamitani Lab (2019)

日本認知心理学会第17回大会ベーシック＆フロンティアセミナー 第3部「認知心理学研究のための再現可能性のすゝめープレレジからデータ解析そしてオープンサイエンスまで 」「オープンサイエンスのすゝめ」

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Séminaire OpenAire à Ghent

Les 27 et 28 mai 2019, l'UGent sera le théâtre d'un séminaire dont le sujet central sera l'Open Science Le thème "Research policy monitoring in the era of Open Science and Big Data" sera donc à l'honneur durant ses deux jours avec au programme les indicateurs de science ouverte émergeant en Europe et une étude prospective de ceux-ci afin de les améliorer.

Organisateurs :

- OpenAIRE

- Data4Impact 

- Science Europe

Inscriptions

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAB11sAp065k5pBafmMpd79U9NmiJV_Wv8Ws2VK6tgk0rBQQ/viewform

Informations

https://www.openaire.eu/research-policy-monitoring-in-the-era-of-open-science-and-big-data-the-what-indicators-and-the-how-infrastructures

ou info@openaccess.be

[openlittermap]

You can use OpenLitterMap.com to map and share incidents of litter or illegal dumping anywhere. Simply snap, upload, tag and submit! The data is free and open for anyone to access, so there should be no problem sorting it out.

[strathoa]

2nd International Conference “Changing Landscape of Science & Technology Libraries” (CLSTL2019): a summary

Pablo de Castro, Open Access Advocacy Librarian

Following the reception of an invitation last Dec to contribute a guest talk at this CLSTL2019 conference in Gandhinagar, India, a 30-min presentation on "The use of Research Information Management Systems for Open Science implementation at research libraries" was delivered at the IIT Gandhinagar on Mar 2nd. The topic addressed followed the indications received from the event organisers, merging the research information and the Open Science implementation threads.

A conference in India poses specific challenges of its own, both from a logistic viewpoint – travel arrangements and sponsoring of the travel costs – and on the difficulty to put together an event programme that bridges the gap between research library practices in the most advanced workplaces worldwide and the current practice in a country like India where libraries are often still to receive the kind of empowerment via public policies that they enjoy for research support purposes in regions like the US or Europe.

The way this was addressed at CLSTL2019 was by putting the event organisation in the hands of an extremely well-connected librarian at IIT Gandhinagar, Dr TS Kumbar, who gathered a spectacular group of international speakers covering a wide range of subjects well beyond the local practice at his institution or in the wider country. In this sense the conference was an opportunity for the local attendees to get an insight on what is currently going on at the most advanced research libraries in the world.

The Strathclyde Uni presentation was one of the few guest contributions in the programme whose speaker was not contacted on the basis of a previous connection with Dr Kumbar but solely because of scholarly work published by the library that he had come across. These were the joint OCLC/euroCRIS worldwide survey report on research information management practices and the role of research libraries therein, and the recently published article on the CRIS-mediated implementation of Open Science at the Strathclyde library. This notwithstanding, there was an ongoing research collaboration between the EEE Department at Strathclyde and the IIT Gandhinagar at the time the invitations to guest speakers started to be sent out in Dec’2018, see above, so in some sense there was indeed a connection between both institutions.

Wider connections between the research carried out at Strathclyde and India were highlighted in the presentation too, such as a recent trip to Mumbai by a group of Biomedical Engineering students in prosthetics under the lead of Dr Anthony McGarry to deliver training in the discipline at local clinics. 

With India having sent a first-ever national delegation to the Congress of the International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS 2018) held in Edinburgh in June 2018 and with an emerging Research Information Management platform getting implemented across the country (Indian Research Information Network System, IRINS), the event provided an excellent opportunity to highlight (i) the relevance of research information management workflows for the daily research support practice at libraries and (ii) the relevance of research administration at institutions as a basis for research- and innovation-related information workflows at a national level.  

Furthermore, the event also offered the surprisingly unusual opportunity for international speakers to listen to each other and to engage in discussions on their respective practices that spanned across continents. In particular, the event provided the forum for a very fruitful comparison of the degree of progress in specific areas between US/Canada- and Europe-based institutions.

Open Science was of course one of the most comprehensively addressed areas among these, even if it was far from being the sole one (these sections covered a wide range of library-related topics, from refurbishing the actual physical library buildings to teaching activities delivered by faculty librarians through library service marketing).

The way the bridging of the above-mentioned competencies gap was addressed was by staging a ‘long’ talk by an international guest speaker at the start of a specific session then arranging a number of short talks providing an insight on the local practice around topics related to the one addressed in the long talk at the start.

RDM was a heavier discipline in the event programme than Open Access, but there were excellent presentations on the latter topic. Among these stood out the update provided by Coleen Campbell, a Florence-based consultant for the implementation of Plan S from the Max Planck Society in Munich. A representative from the University of California (Irvine) was also among the guest speakers and broke out the news to the event audience of the cancellation of the UC subscription agreement with Elsevier. The Strathclyde presentation also included a summary of the Open Access policies applicable in the UK with an emphasis on the best-practice HEFCE policy and its link to the UK-wide research assessment exercise.

Several attendees chose to deliver remote presentations that had been previously recorded and were then projected on the big screen in the auditorium. A particularly good one among these was the summary on (often very innovative) practices at the KAUST library in Thuwal (Saudi Arabia) delivered by its director Dr J. K. Vijayakumar.

Two contributions stood out in the RDM domain, both of them workshops. The first one, delivered by Harvard Research Data Program Manager Ceilyn Boyd and IQSS Dataverse Manager of Data Curation Sonia Barbosa addressed “Research Data Management and FAIR Data in the Dataverse Infrastructure” (C Boyd’s slides providing the RDM framework are available at http://bit.ly/rdm_clstl2019; the rest of the presentations will eventually be uploaded at the conference website http://events.iitgn.ac.in/2019/CLSTL/).

Private conversations with these two colleagues shed more light into the business model behind the Harvard Dataverse, which is for instance providing data deposit, curation, storage and preservation services to the Ubiquity Press fully Open Access, affordable-APC journal titles in a similar (but institutionally-driven) way to how Dryad provides services to many other mainstream publishers.  

The second RDM-related workshop worth mentioning was “Data and Visualisation in Libraries: Services and Practice” delivered by Walt Gurley from the North Carolina State University Libraries. The case that was presented for libraries offering peer-to-peer (“Coffee & Viz”) courses on Tableau and other data visualisation software solutions to NCSU students and Faculty plus external stakeholders was again both innovative and very interesting.

An interesting aspect frequently raised in conversations with US-based colleagues was the challenge faced by US institutions for Open Science implementation purposes arising from the very weak cross-institutional collaboration patterns in the country: there is no national-level research assessment exercise in the US and the policies issued by the Federal Government are not strong enough to ensure across–the-board awareness and compliance. In these circumstances, it’s paradoxically Industry that often plays a coordinating role via the user groups for specific solutions, in stark contrast to the European Union member countries where Industry is often perceived as the enemy by Open Science advocates.

A comprehensive social programme was finally put together for the international visitors including among others cultural and local shopping tours, local dance performances and opportunities to taste the local food.

The event as a whole was very fruitful for the opportunities it offered to get to know more on how the role of research libraries is evolving in India and to get the chance to discuss current practices in research support with colleagues from other countries. And following this event, it was not just the Mukti Foundation in Chennai who got its Scottish touch from the BME faculty and students, but also IIT Gandhinagar through the Strathclyde library!

[momofthreesillyboys]

Day 11 is about to start I keep reminding myself that social distancing does not mean social isolation. We have restarted knit group at work even if it’s just virtually. It was great to see everyone. As our leaders say our building maybe closed but the @alleninstitute is still #open for science so it’s time for me to continue do my part and get this data to where it need to be. #momof3sillyboys #hereatallen #openscience #molecularbiology #bioinformatics #blackwomeninscience https://www.instagram.com/p/B96qlrwJUKM/?igshid=1efq91wb0pt4a