Adopters of the POSI principles have met several times over the last few years to discuss the challenges and the improvements they’ve made in the transparency and longevity of their operations and governance. Hear from those involved in introducing the latest version - v1.1.
Where I write, being día de muertos, about my copies of Rulfo’s El llano en llamas and Pedro Páramo.
In memoriam Alan Grant, Norm Breyfogle, Adrienne Roy, Albert De Guzman, Dennis O’Neil and George Cordeiro. I haven’t written here in a while, but it’s that time of the year. It’s also been a year since we moved to a house next to a Victorian cemetery. Before the clocks change, this week has had very dark mornings, and later in the day the light in the cemetery has been really beautiful.
Happy Birthday, Open Access! Last Sunday, the Berlin Declaration turned twenty years old (Pampel & Kindling, 2023). Its anniversary coincides with the international Open Access Week. During this action week, events promoting Open Access are organized worldwide (an overview can be found at openaccessweek.org.
Honoured to have been invited as keynote speaker, along esteemed colleagues Zu Dominiak and Damon Herd.
We analyse samples of DataCite metadata from ten repositories that have already created >100k project IDs. The FAIR Island Project will provide working examples that demonstrate how DataCite and other existing infrastructure are being used and can be leveraged to support project-level metadata.
By embracing DataCite and Crossref DOIs, the global scholarly community is empowered, reducing financial barriers and fostering broad creation, dissemination, and recognition of research outputs and resources.
I will be presenting on Friday 8th September, 2023 with the title “Making Gatekeeping Transparent: Insights from a Decade of Trying Open Peer Review”.
The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference. I share the programe here.
The processes and supports within an institution can, I’ve noticed, demand a bit of effort to change. When we speak of open scholarship or open science , many aspects tie-in or lead out from those concepts, which makes the whole prospect of institutional change quite complex.