I founded Liberate Science in October 2019 to realise ResearchEquals. Thanks to the Shuttleworth Foundation’s support over the past three years, ResearchEquals now exists and we have been in production for 10 months — since then we’ve had zero downtime! We will continue to develop ways for you to make your research work visible and are committed to doing that for the long haul.

The past six months we consulted for the Meta-Research Center on their NWO Open Science Fund project, aimed at detecting privacy violations in datasets. You can now use the web app we built and the R package we developed to scan your datasets and prevent sharing privacy violations. Together with prof. dr. Jelte Wicherts and dr. Rick Klein, we wrote the original grant proposal to improve scanning for potential privacy violations in datasets.

We are piloting a four week peer learning programme for early career researchers in February 2023. Composed of seven sessions, ResearchEquals Cohorts will learn how to use ResearchEquals to share their research process and connect with peers going through the same learning process. A peer learning programme helps learn things in a social setting, where doing it alone can be too intimidating, too much, or not fun enough.

We will be organizing the 2023 edition of the Open Publishing Festival together with Coko. Save the date: 13-17 November 2023. Organizing the Open Publishing Festival aligns perfectly our virtual-first event policy. We got inspired by the Festival at the start of the pandemic, and are excited we will co-organize it. We will be expanding in the 2023 edition of the Open Publishing Festival!  If you are interested, please suggest a session.

As we see more pictures of in-person events, we too feel the pressure to “go back” to pre-pandemic conferences. Even more so, we feel the urge to institutionalize our event policy before we unlearn the lessons of the ongoing COVID pandemic.

Since 2020, twelve organizations signed on to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). It’s not a meagre list of organizations either: CrossRef, ROR, Europe PMC, and many more. Today, Liberate Science joins the POSI posse (their words) with our initial evaluation of ResearchEquals.

This is a transcript of the interview with Kaitlin Thaney (Season 2, Episode 9). Listen to the podcast on Anchor. The transcript is slightly edited for readability and available under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Chris Hartgerink: Hello and welcome to the final episode of the second season of the Open Update. For Liberate Science, I'm your host, Chris Hartgerink.

This is a transcript of the interview with Meng Liu and Shilaan Alzahawi from the FORRT project (Season 2, Episode 8). Listen to the podcast on Anchor. The transcript is slightly edited for readability and available under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Chris Hartgerink: Welcome back to the second season of the Open Update. For Liberate Science, I'm your host Chris Hartgerink.

This is a transcript of the interview with Monica Granados (Season 2, Episode 7). Listen to the podcast on Anchor. The transcript is slightly edited for readability and available under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Chris Hartgerink: Welcome to another episode in the second season of the Open Update. For Liberate Science. I'm your host, Chris Hartgerink.

This is a transcript of the interview with Wendy Ingram (Season 2, Episode 6). Listen to the podcast on Anchor. The transcript is slightly edited for readability and available under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Chris Hartgerink: Welcome to the second season of the Open Update. For Liberate Science, I'm your host Chris Hartgerink.