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.

Starting a small company means the buck stops with me on everything, every time. Since founding Liberate Science three years ago, that means I’ve had to pick up a lot of skills.

OpenCitations recalls what has achieved over the past year, in terms of technical developments, community building, and internal organization.

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.

Laut der aktuellen Standortbestimmung der DINI AG FIS soll schon heute eine enge Verzahnung von Forschungsinformations- und Forschungsdatenmanagement mitgedacht werden. Dies stellt Betreiber von Forschungsinformationssystemen künftig vor weitere Herausforderungen. Diese sind beispielsweise: Importmöglichkeiten von Metadaten anhand geeigneter Identifier Erweiterung des eigenen Metadatenschemas Mappings (extern nach intern bzw.

I used to introduce myself as a recovering academic in the years 2018-2022. Only now in 2023, am I comfortable saying I am a recovered academic. Having recovered, I am in a comfortable place to start sharing some personal stories that have not seen the light of day before in written form.

Wie bereits im Blog berichtet, ist der KDSF in einer neuen Version 1.3 erschienen. Auch wenn es im Bereich der Publikationen keine Änderungen gegeben hat, haben wir uns in der gemeinsamen Arbeitsgruppe der DINI AG FIS und DINI AG E-Pub das Mapping des Gemeinsamen Vokabulars auf den KDSF noch einmal angesehen.

This week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) declared 2023 its ‘Year of Open Science’, announcing ‘new grant funding, improvements in research infrastructure, broadened research participation for emerging scholars, and expanded opportunities for public engagement’. This announcement builds on the OSTP’s open access policy announcement last year that will require immediate open access to federally-funded research from

Gestern hat das White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) der Biden-⁠Harris Administration angekündigt, das Jahr 2023 unter das Motto Open Science zu stellen.  Mit Fördermitteln, einer Weiterentwicklung der Forschungsinfrastruktur, sowie einer Verbesserung der Forschungsbeteiligung für Early Stage Researchers soll das Anliegen des „open and equitable research“ gestärkt werden.

💡 These are my remarks for the junior researcher panel at the APE2023 conference. This blog is slightly edited for clarity and expands the quote selection from Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz died a decade ago today - to commemorate him I’ll start by reading selected quotes from the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto here today. I would argue to reframe publishing as a question of power — as Aaron talked about it: Information is power.