Liberate Science

In 2022, we did our first self-evaluation according to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). In this blog, we take stock ~1 year later, based on POSI v1.1, and reevaluate how we're doing and where there's still room for improvement. Summary   💚 = aligned; 💛 = less aligned;

Reevaluating POSI: 2023 evolution

In our ongoing process of intentionally designing business practices, we are today introducing our equipment policy. We learned accumulating things is even easier as an organization than it is as an individual. In a phase of scaling up, new equipment is purchased, but when scaling down we are left with those physical remains.

Introducing our equipment policy

Chris Hartgerink

This is a transcript of the interview with Iryna Kuchma (Season 2, Episode 3). 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.

Interview Iryna Kuchma (Open Update)

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.

Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure evaluation (2022)

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.

Introducing our Event Policy

We just released Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.3 🎉 This was a bit of an off month, so we did not include as much as we'd like this time around 😅Added Hypergraph will now run in the background.


Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.3

We just released Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.6 🎉 New releases of Hypergraph will occur on the 28th of every month — we only break that cycle if there are urgent fixes that we need to ship as soon as possible (e.g., for security). If you're interested in understanding how we version our releases, check out Semantic Versioning.


Hypergraph v0.10.6

We just released Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.4. We primarily patched some issues as we work on improving the stability of the application. New releases of Hypergraph occur on the 28th of every month — we only break that cycle if there are urgent fixes that we need to ship as soon as possible (e.g., for security). If you're interested in understanding how we version our releases, check out Semantic Versioning.

Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.4

We just released Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.5 🎉 New releases of Hypergraph occur on the 28th of every month — we only break that cycle if there are urgent fixes that we need to ship as soon as possible (e.g., for security). If you're interested in understanding how we version our releases, check out Semantic Versioning.


Hypergraph v0.10.5

The Open Update is Liberate Science's podcast series. Currently in it's third season, it has evolved from a weekly digest, to an interview series, to a conversational podcast.Season 1 (January 2021-April 2022)  52 weekly episodes digesting the open science news. In this inaugural season, we learned more about podcast production and initiated our audience.


Open Update

Allison Harbin

Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

We seek to distribute knowledge, such that what it enables becomes distributed too. We want to repair, not destroy, and grow new modes of being, where empathy, humility, and inclusivity are paramount. We move towards and build open, dialectical systems that are actively inclusive, because we know that those whose voices were not heard are the most important for a new equitable system.


A Manifesto to Liberate Science: Organic knowledge(s)

Sarahanne Field

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Welcome to the Open Update. I'm Chris Hartgerink, your host, together with Sarahanne Field. [00:00:06]

 Sarahanne Field:

Hello.

How we review &amp; edit (s03e13)

On June 28th, we assembled our supporting community to decide next steps, together (see our original agenda). In this post, we report some key points for those who were unable to attend. Business development   The business is progressing steadily, but our revenue is not growing fast enough to cover costs as they are. We had a great quarter, where we covered around 44% of our expenses with our own income.

Minutes Assembly #11

With our publishing platform ResearchEquals.com we are introducing a new business model for open access: Pay to close. We love open access - it is a massive part of why we even started building ResearchEquals. We also hear the scholarly community's issues with the business models of open access.


Pay to close model

Hans van Dijk

Martin Götz

Marino van Zelst

You can also open this content in Hypergraph (Download Hypergraph).

Research articles depict a destination, but not its journey. The journey is the messy middle that not everybody wants to know, but this garden of forking paths has substantial consequences for results. Because information often gets relegated to supplemental materials or is unavailable upon request, we often cannot know the actual research journey even if we wanted to.

Why we're starting Many Paths

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Hi, and welcome to another episode of the Open Update. For Liberate Science, I'm Chris Hartgerink, joined by my co-host Sarahanne Field. [00:00:07]

 Sarahanne Field:

Hey there.

Plurality in research (s03e10)

In February, we ran a pilot ResearchEquals Cohort. Seven sessions spread over four weeks, and five cohort graduates. Regardless of whether we continue, this is a delightful memory already. We met fantastic folk, learned from one another, and had fun. We’ve had some space and time to reflect on this, and with that it’s high time to evaluate and announce when the next Cohort will take place.

Pilot evaluation: ResearchEquals Cohorts

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.

Interview transcript - Monica Granados (Open Update)

Every 28th of the month, we release a new version of Hypergraph — we just released Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.0 🎉 (if you already have it installed, it'll auto-update next time you run it). Below, you can find a detailed and human-readable version of everything that's changed since last months release (v0.9.0).Added Markdown rendering in Hypergraph (includes equation rendering, table rendering) — main files that are markdown files will now be


Hypergraph (Beta): v0.10.0 release

You can also open this content in Hypergraph (Download Hypergraph).

We are gathering a group of researchers from a diverse set of disciplines to embark on an innovative research project investigating the question “

 Does power corrupt?

” We decided to focus on this question because it is highly relevant in today’s research and practice, and although having engaged humanity for almost aeons, across disciplines different

How to get involved with Many Paths?

The Liberate Science team recently wrapped up another workcycle, codenamed "Potato Smiles." We're taking a moment to recap what we have achieved and share our progress with you! 😊 If you're new to the workcycle series: We use workcycles to collectively prioritize our work, assign tasks, and self-organize until the next workcycle.


Workcycle Potato Smiles 🥔😊

At Liberate Science, we are committed to being part of a global movement for change – and it was time we made it official. We are pledging 1% of our sales to the planet and are excited to join a growing global network of businesses, non-profits and individuals working together for a healthy planet. The climate crisis is raging on and there is no time or space for corporate actors to deflect their responsibilities.


Liberate Science’s joins Stripe Climate, commits 1% for the planet

Cathleen Berger

The science is clear: humanity is living beyond the regenerative capabilities of our planetary boundaries. It is easy to forget when building a business, that we are also contributing to the excess. For us to create a sustainable science, we need to create a culture of sustainability thinking across economic, social, and ecological domains.


Understanding our impact and taking ecological responsibility seriously

Over the past month, I participated in a workshop led by Cassie Evans and Smashing Magazine called "The SVG Animation Masterclass". It was a fantastic workshop and inspires me to do more with animations for liberate science designs in the future. Watch this space, but until then, here's some things I wanted to share with you about my journey into animated SVGs.


Strangelove Vector Graphics (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love SVGs)

Communicating your brand through illustration is a fantastic way to add some personality and information without relying on boring stock photography or stuffy infographics. However, creating custom illustrations and defining an illustration system is a time consuming process.


Steps Towards an Illustration System

Diego Paez

In a previous post, we announced our partnership with GEUT (Argentina) to build the peer-to-peer commons (p2pcommons) infrastructure, which powers applications like Hypergraph. Today, we're announcing the first release of the permanent seeder software. Most practically, this will help make any content shared through the Hypergraph Vault easy and fast to access.


Permanent seeder

Since the first discussions about Hypergraph, accessibility has been a priority. We recently completed an accessibility audit, and while things aren’t perfectly accessible, we know where to focus our energy. I firmly believe accessibility does more for a product than expanding the pool of potential users, but also serves as an idealized baseline of design and engineering.


Creating an Accessible Network Status Indicator

Mikael Laakso

Every now and then we feature work that is shared in Hypergraph. You can choose to read it here or open it in Hypergraph (download Hypergraph here). Content suggestions can be sent to community@libscie.org.

Cover image courtesy of CrossRef (CC-BY 4.0). The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system is like a digital address book: One DOI name resolves to information on the location of the content.

Hypergraph in action: DOI Primer

We recently wrapped up another workcycle for the Hypergraph application, codenamed "Doughnut." Now, we're taking a moment to reflect on what we have achieved and share our progress with you! 😊 If you're new to the workcycle series: We use workcycles to collectively prioritise our work, assign tasks, and self-organise until the next workcycle.


Workcycle Doughnut 🍩

Octopus and Hypergraph are both projects trying to change how researchers communicate their work. By changing the unit of publication from an entire research project to individual steps, they both try to improve reproducibility, access, and other issues in research.


Modular research with Octopus and Hypergraph

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.

Interview transcript - Kaitlin Thaney (Open Update)

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Hi and welcome to the Open Update. This is a show to help us and you calibrate our senses to the power imbalances in research and the world. For Liberate Science, I'm Chris Hartgerink [00:00:12]

 Sarahanne Field:

I'm Sarahanne Field.

On the return of in-person conferences (s03e05)

We recently transitioned from using Google Suite as our main provider for email and online storage, in favor of Proton. This is a conscious choice regarding the security of both our internal communications and the security of information people share with us.  Back in 2019, when we first required more scalable email solutions, we opted for Google Suite because it was straightforward and well known.

Privacy as a form of openness: Moving away from Google Suite

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Hi, and welcome to the Open Update. For Liberate Science. I'm Chris Hartgerink. [00:00:03]

 Sarahanne Field:

I'm Sarahanne Field. [00:00:05]

 Chris Hartgerink:

In the Open Update we talk about power imbalances in research and society more broadly.

The case of professor Susanne Täuber (s03e04)

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.

Introducing Liberate Science Labs

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.

Consulting: Privacy in open data

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.

Organizing the Open Publishing Festival 2023

Last year, we established Liberate Science’s baseline environmental impact, estimating around 6 000 kilos of carbon dioxide equivalent (or 6 mtCO2e) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the years 2019 and 2020. For 2021, we calculated 3.29 mtCO2e – a welcome reduction (-48% overall, -30% compared to 2020). In part, this reduction is because of a smaller team and that we didn’t need (or want) to update any of our devices or office furniture.


Our Impact Journey continues: 2021 emissions data and next steps

It may sound theoretical, but it is a powerful directional vehicle: A business’

 Theory of Change

. Here we introduce the results of our collaboration with Cathleen Berger to create our unique approach to making an impact. Liberate Science aims to distribute the production and consumption of research in an equitable, fair manner – fostering open research as a result.

Introducing our theory of change

This is a transcript of the interview with Samuel Moore (Season 2, Episode 2). Listen to the podcast here. 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.

Interview transcript - Samuel Moore (Open Update)

Creating tools isn’t the biggest challenge, the biggest challenge is getting people to use them (Brian Nosek) We want people to know about ResearchEquals, so that they can use it to publish how they know, instead of what they know. Our launch in February 2022 gave ResearchEquals a boost, and now we wanted to try out something new: We dipped our toes into the marketing waters!


ResearchEquals on the Berlin subway

I am excited to announce that our publishing platform for research modules is going to be named ResearchEquals, launching on ResearchEquals.com (February 1st, 2022).Branding design by Pentagram We already announced that we are sunsetting Hypergraph after our initial experimental phase for publishing research modules, from which we learned some important lessons.


Hypergraph becomes ResearchEquals

With the recent announcement that Hypergraph will evolve into a web publishing platform for research modules (with a new name forthcoming), Liberate Science also signed up to become a member of CrossRef. This means we'll start issuing ("minting") Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for research modules in the near future. A clear and long-term strategy for this is valuable, and I want to share that journey openly.


Minting DOIs for research modules

We just released Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.1 🎉 This is a patch release and does not introduce any new features. New releases of Hypergraph occur on the 28th of every month — we only break that cycle if there are urgent fixes that we need to ship as soon as possible (e.g., for security). If you're interested in understanding how we version our releases, check out Semantic Versioning.


Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.1

Almost a year ago we introduced a way to publish research modules with Hypergraph (Beta). Research modules are a publishing unit where the researcher decides what gets published with links between subsequent modules. These can be complete manuscripts but also datasets with linked code, audio files with linked transcripts, 3D models with linked revisions, or anything else you may produce during your research.


Hypergraph lessons and future

We just released Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.7. An announcement is coming on September 10th that will affect the future release schedule.


Hypergraph v0.10.7

We just released Hypergraph (Beta) v0.9.0 🎉 New releases of Hypergraph will from now on occur on the 28th of every month — we will only break that cycle if there are urgent fixes that we need to ship as soon as possible (e.g., security fixes or bug fixes). If you're interested in understanding how we version our releases, check out Semantic Versioning.


Hypergraph (Beta): v0.9.0 released

Lana Sinapayen

Mimosa and Hypergraph are both projects trying to change how researchers communicate their work. By changing the unit of publication from an entire research project to individual steps, they both try to improve reproducibility, access, and other issues in research.


Modular research with Mimosa and Hypergraph

Hypergraph is a tool for researchers and we want to showcase which researchers use Hypergraph, why, and what they want from future versions. The "Researching with Hypergraph" blog series highlights researchers using Hypergraph for their work. Today we feature Sarahanne Field (@SMirandaField).

Who are you and what kind of research do you do? I am Sarahanne, a third-year PhD candidate at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Researching with Hypergraph: Sarahanne Field

There's little reason to blindly trust organizations, especially in these times of mass inequality. We recognize that Liberate Science is new—we want to earn your trust as we work on projects like Hypergraph. Supporting memberships are about building community and building trust. One way we aim to build trust is by reinforcing that we won't sell out.


Introducing supporting memberships

We recently wrapped up a workcycle for Hypergraph, codenamed "Cheesecake" and we'd like to share our progress 😊 We use workcycles to collectively prioritise our work, assign tasks, and self-organise until the next workcycle.


Workcycle Cheesecake 🧀 🍰

We launched our own open access publishing platform ResearchEquals.com on February 1st, 2022.  Publish how you know, not what you know. Our open access publishing platform for research modules.


ResearchEquals.com

Tilburg University is now an inaugural supporting member of ResearchEquals, sustaining and governing the development of modular publishing. Tilburg University already included open science in its strategy in 2018 and has since vitalized local efforts through the Open Access Lab and the local Open Science Community.

Tilburg University supports ResearchEquals

We (semi)recently shipped our integration Research Organization Registry (ROR) for ResearchEquals! ROR is the ORCID for institutions, allowing researchers to easily identify themselves as being affiliated to certain organizations. With this integration, ResearchEquals joins a league of other publishers who are increasing their commitment to complete metadata.

Integrating the Research Organization Registry (ROR)

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Hi, and welcome to another episode of the Open Update. For Liberate Science. I'm Chris Hartgerink, joined by my co-host Sarahanne Field. [00:00:08]

 Sarahanne Field:

Hi there.

Say yes to affirmative action (s03e11)

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.

Interview transcript - Wendy Ingram (Open Update)

When we publish research, we are committing to preserving that research content for as long as we can. At the same time, we need to be realistic and recognize that Liberate Science (”the business”) is still young and it remains uncertain how long we will be around. How do we make sure copies of the research are archived and available in futures that may or may not include the business?

ResearchEquals Archival strategy

🔈 This is a transcript - listen to the original podcast on Anchor. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Hi, and welcome to the Open Update. I'm Chris Hartgerink for Liberate Science, joined by Sarahanne Field, here in Berlin still, [00:00:05]

 Sarahanne Field:

Hello.

Burden of open research (s03e17)

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Hello, and welcome to the Open Update. I'm Chris Hartgerink for Liberate Science, joined by Sarahanne Field, actually in person today. [00:00:07]

 Sarahanne Field:

In Berlin.

Anonymous review in the past decade (s03e14)

This is a joint publication by Cathleen Berger (Climatiq), Chris Hartgerink (Liberate Science), Indré Blauzdžiūnaitė (Trafi), Vineeta Greenwood (Wholegrain Digital). Cross-published in Branch Magazine.

We all know that climate action is urgent. We also know that the private sector is responsible for the lion’s share of global greenhouse gas emissions.

SMEs and the challenges of doing right by the environment

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Hi and welcome to the Open update. For Liberate Science, I'm Chris Hartgerink and I'm joined by co-host Sarahanne. [00:00:06]

 Sarahanne Field:

Hello.

Alternative forms of peer feedback (s03e08)

We continuously improve Hypergraph, our tool for communicating research as-you-go — instead of after-the-fact — to allow researchers to focus on their core interest: doing research. We care about meeting researchers where they are, in order to make research life easier. To that end, Liberate Science is partnering with Coko and its spin off project Cabbage Tree Labs to seamlessly integrate working with Word files in Hypergraph.


Partnering with Coko

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Hi, and welcome to the Open Update. We're here for another episode. For Liberate Science, I'm Chris Hartgerink, joined by my lovely co-host, Sarahanne Field.

Gamification in research (s03e09)

Open Science Community Leiden (OSCL), with assistance from Leiden University Library, is now a supporting member of ResearchEquals, sustaining and governing the development of modular publishing. OSCL joins as the fourth institutional supporter, alongside Tilburg University, KU Leuven, and VU Amsterdam.

Open Science Community Leiden supports ResearchEquals

VU Amsterdam is now a supporting member of ResearchEquals, sustaining and governing the development of modular publishing. VU Amsterdam joins as the third institutional supporter, alongside Tilburg University and KU Leuven. VU Amsterdam supports new research initiatives through their VU Open Access Innovation Fund. They support open, free and fair publishing alternatives set up by and for researchers.

VU Amsterdam supports ResearchEquals

The climate crisis demands immediate action, in order to prevent every bit of warming we can. Organizations are big emitters, because they consume, spend, and grow — a lot. All of those economic activities are strongly coupled with emissions. We do our emission assessments because that information is key to taking informed action. Our previous assessments in 2019, 2020, and 2021 already influenced our equipment policy and event policy.

Our 2022 emission estimates

🔈 This is a transcript of the Open Update podcast. Listen to the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Welcome back to the Open Update. We're back in the series talking about the decade of open science in the last 10 years, and then also this week we're gonna be talking a bit about, what do we foresee for the next 10 years?

Onboarding with confidence in open research (s03e16)

🔈 This is a transcript of the Open Update podcast. Listen to the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Welcome back to the Open Update. We are continuing the conversation from a few weeks ago where we are asking this question of how do we create change and are we accelerating or decelerating how fast we're making change.

Stagnation or solidification of open science? (s03e15)

We recently announced our immediate archival strategy, which will ensure the content on ResearchEquals stays available in case of an immediate, disastrous event (e.g., accidents, business shutting down). In this post, we describe how we implemented this archive strategy, which is run at zero cost using open-source software. The immediate archive is continuously updated and made available using GitHub and GitHub Actions.

Immediate archive implementation

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Welcome to the Open Update season three. For Liberate Science. I'm Chris Hartgerink and I'm joined by my co-host Sarahanne Field. [00:00:06]

 Sarahanne Field:

Hello.

CVs, narrative CVs, alternative CVs (s03e07)

We did a deep dive into decentralized social media - in case you missed it, here is a recap and next steps.

Decentralized social media is a hot topic these days, also for us at Liberate Science. In an attempt to stimulate conversation around this and help us decide what to do with these developments, I hosted three livestreams back in February to dive into the topic. These livestreams are a new format part of the Labs experiments, where we try out new things and see how they help us imagine next steps.

Recap: Into the Fediverse

Research communication comes in many forms — traditional text based publishing cannot accommodate to all the needs of new, non text-based forms of communication. Audio-articles, also called pubcasts, are one such form. We’re happy to announce ResearchEquals is partnering with PubCasts to stimulate,  develop, and support the publication of audio-articles in our community.

Partnering with PubCasts

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Welcome to the Open Update season three. I'm one of your hosts, Chris Hartgerink [00:00:11]

 Sarahanne Field:

And I'm your other host, Sarahanne Field.

How does who you are influence how you explore the world? (s03e03)

In this blog, we explain what ResearchEquals Supporting Memberships are, why we are (re)introducing them, and how you can become an individual or institutional supporting member.  It is clear to us that what we are doing with ResearchEquals is not a technological change, it is a social one — that means your involvement matters. What is a supporting membership?   Supporting memberships are a community based approach to how ResearchEquals evolves.

ResearchEquals Supporting Memberships

A decade ago, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment launched. I know I referenced it a lot in my efforts to improve research, and I bet many of you did too! It is with great pride I can announce Liberate Science is working with DORA to make their 10 year celebration a success. Specifically, we are supporting DORA and its community with event management. We help curate and scaffold incoming community sessions for success.

Supporting DORA’s 10th Anniversary

We started running Twitter bots in 2017, when Liberate Science was only a side project. First we launched the PsyArxiv bot. Later, we launched bots for the MetaArxiv (2020) and EdArxiv (2021) preprint servers. Six years in, we are shutting down these Twitter bots.

Shutting down our preprint bots

Nami Sunami

In today’s community spotlight, we talk to Nami Sunami (he/him). Nami is a maintainer of ResearchEquals and is author of over 110 proposed changes and bug reports to the project! Who is Nami and what motivates him in his work? Let’s find out by asking him a few questions. Why do you contribute to ResearchEquals?   In 2019, I was at the University of Delaware as a PhD student in social psychology, looking for ways to make my research more open.

Community Spotlight: Nami Sunami

🔈 Find the original audio on Anchor.fm In this episode, we get to know our new co-host! The Open Update podcast is a space to have conversations and continuously update what it means to be open. In season 3, co-hosts Sarahanne Field and Chris Hartgerink, discuss how power imbalances affect efforts to improve research, and the world beyond. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Welcome back to the Open Update.

Getting to know your new co-host! (s03e01)

The Open Update is our podcast to help you stay informed on what’s happening in the open research landscape. In season 1, we covered the headlines for 52 weeks. In season 2, we dove in deep to understand the implications of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science with 10 specialists.

Co-host introduction for the Open Update (Season 3)

Copyright is automatic: You create something and it will have copyright. This blog, just by writing it will have copyright. Even your doodles. It is the contract without paper trail. That also means: Without any intervention, nobody will be able to legally copy it.  The interventions to make that copyright more workable are important in open movements. Such interventions provide the legal certainty to reuse whatever it is you are interested in.

On why we consider some licenses closed (at the moment)

Just a few weeks ago we reflected on the year 2022 — with those positive results we find the energy to make 2023 another resultful one. In this blog post, we outline how we are planning to move forward this year.

Planning 2023

Gracielle Higino

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.

ResearchEquals Cohorts pilot

As we are about to start a new calendar and fiscal year, it is helpful to reflect on how we’ve done in the past year. Reflection is a helpful tool to celebrate achievements and to give feedback to ourselves, maybe even identify patterns we cannot see in the moment. 2022 was a big year for us at Liberate Science! We’ve achieved a lot with a small team.

Wrapped: 2022

💡 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Chris Hartgerink:

Hello and welcome back to the Open Update for Liberate Science. I'm Chris Hartgerink, joined by my lovely co-host, Sarahanne Field. [00:00:07]

 Sarahanne Field:

Hello.

How we work (s03e12)

This is a transcript of the interview with Tamarinde Have (Season 2, Episode 5). 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.

Interview transcript - Tamarinde Haven (Open Update)

This is a transcript of the interview with Brian Nosek (Season 2, Episode 1). Listen to the podcast here. 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.

Interview transcript - Brian Nosek (Open Update)

This is a transcript of the interview with James Bridle (Season 2, Episode 4). 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.

Interview transcript - James Bridle (Open Update)

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00]

 Sarahanne Field:

Hi and welcome to the Open Update. I'm Sarahanne Field. [00:00:04]

 Chris Hartgerink:

And I'm Chris Hartgerink [00:00:05]

 Sarahanne Field:

In the Open Update podcast, we discuss power dynamics that affect us as researchers, the research community, and society more broadly.

Accountability &amp; Justice (s03e06)

🔈  This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm.  Welcome to the Open Update. I'm your host Chris Hartgerink and this week, we don’t have a regular episode for you. The last recording we did, ended up glitchy and unusable, and then we had health issues that prevented us from recording anything at all.

A reading of the "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" (s03e02)

The beta release of Hypergraph is here 🎉 If you want to dive in immediately, download Hypergraph (Beta) for Windows, macOS, or Linux. Hypergraph helps researchers reset research publishing, by publicly documenting research step by step, before the issues of after-the-fact articles even begin. Traditionally, articles are often written in hindsight, causing selective publication, p-hacking, and many other issues.


Introducing Hypergraph (Beta) 🎉

This is a call for fellowship applications. Apply here.

ResearchEquals is a new publishing platform for research modules, developed by Liberate Science. Instead of publishing entire projects as papers, researchers publish their process, sharing the building blocks of research continuously and in chronological order.

ResearchEquals Fellowships

KU Leuven is now an inaugural supporting member of ResearchEquals, sustaining and governing the development of modular publishing. As part of their commitment to Open Science, KU Leuven supports sustainable implementations of Open Access and Open Science through the KU Leuven Fund for Fair OA. The fund is usually only available to non-profits, but ResearchEquals’ governance convinced KU Leuven to support a for-profit initiative.

KU Leuven supports ResearchEquals

On June 1st, we partnered with GEUT (Argentina) to develop open source software to support the peer-to-peer commons (p2pcommons) infrastructure that powers our application Hypergraph.


Liberate Science

Permanent seeder

Partnering with GEUT