Das zweite diesjährige euroCRIS Membership Meeting wird vom 18.-20.11.2019 in Münster stattfinden. Merken Sie sich den Termin gern vor.

Als Michael Hengartner, Präsident swissuniversities und Rektor der Universität Zürich an der Open Access Konferenz Schweiz 2018 gefragt wurde, ob er im Sinne von Open Access auch die kommenden Verträge mit Elsevier und Springer öffentlich machen wird, war seine Antwort ganz klar ja. Schliesslich ist diese Transparenz seit längerem erklärtes Ziel von Swissuniversities für die aktuellen Verhandlungen mit Elsevier, SpringerNature und Wiley:

Open access is a movement constituted by conflict and disagreement rather than consensus and harmony.

This week, the Vancouver ScholCommLab packed things in early and hit the bowling lanes. Team bonding, apparently, is best achieved by participating in competitive individual “sports.” Each of us had their own unique strategic, from granny-style bowling to a carefully orchestrated gutter-bounce approach.

Earlier this year I wrote a post about the Plan S open access policy consultation process. I explored what I feel is the purpose of policy consultations, arguing that they are not radical or deliberative democratic exercises but are instead intended to confer a sense of legitimacy to top-down policy mandates: In essence, policy consultations are about tweaking and window-dressing.

In September you are organizing the conference “Divergent values in sustainability assessments: love them, leave them, or change them?”. A core theme of the conference is “ethics in scientific policy advice”. Why do you think the topic of ethics in scientific policy advice is important now? Martin Kowarsch, expert on Scientific Assessments, Ethics and Public Policy Scientific expertise is important for informing politics about

In the last few years, there has been a marked shift in the debate on open access publishing from a focus on (mere) outputs to one on infrastructures. With terms such as ‘community-led’, ‘the commons’ and ‘governance’ regularly bandied about, advocates for OA are increasingly looking away from commercial publishers and towards infrastructures designed by and for a more accountable set of stakeholders.

Am 26. Mai 2019 findet die Europawahl 2019 statt. Einige der Parteien adressieren das Thema Open Science in ihren Wahlprogrammen. Hier einige Auszüge aus den Wahlprogrammen von CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, Grüne und Linke mit Fokus auf die Themenfelder Open Access, offene Forschungsdaten und das Wissenschaftsurheberrecht.

Between 2016 and 2021, the UK government is channelling £1.5 billion of aid funds through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) the beneficiaries of which are primarily UK researchers. They are in turn expected to work in partnership with their counterparts and other stakeholders in the ‘global south’ and in so doing, contribute to improvements in development outcomes.

I’ve just made my Ph.D thesis available on Humanities Commons: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/st5m-cx33 Title: Common Struggles: Policy-based vs. scholar-led approaches to open access in the humanities Abstract: Open access publishing (OA) not only removes price and permission restrictions to academic research, but also represents an opportunity to reassess what publishing means to the humanities.