Workshops zur Weiterentwicklung der Open-Access-Strategie Im ersten Takeaway zu unserer Workshopreihe zur Weiterentwicklung der Brandenburger Open-Access-Strategie beschrieb Ben Kaden bereits, weshalb es notwendig ist, vier Jahre nach Erscheinen der Strategie einen aktualisierten Stand der Open-Access-Transformation in Brandenburg zu erfassen.

After 2 cancellations due to the pandemic, the Plant and Animal Genomes conference returned to its in-person format in January with its 30th edition. A number of the talks focused on the effects of climate change either on biodiversity or crop development. It seems only fitting then, that the weather provided a suitable demonstration with California experiencing one of the longest periods of sustained rainfall in many years.

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.

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. This week’s post highlights Marc-André Simard, a doctoral student in Information Science at the University of Montreal and member of the ScholCommLab. In this post, he shares his thoughts on work in the lab, the global use of open access literature, and stepping out of his comfort zones.

We’re happy to announce POCI, the OpenCitations Index of PubMed open PMID-to-PMID citations, an RDF dataset containing details of all the citations from publications bearing PubMed Identifiers (PMIDs) to other PMID-identified publications, harvested from the National Institutes of Health Open Citations Collection (NIH-OCC). The citations available in POCI are treated as first-class data entities, with … Continue reading Discover POCI, the index

Das Jahr 2022 war das erste volle kalendarische Jahr, in dem die Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle wirkte, und zugleich das erste in voller Besetzung. Damit verband sich eine weitere Intensivierung und Beschleunigung der Arbeiten.

*This blog post is the first of a series dedicated to the description and promotion of OpenCitations Meta. * In addition to OpenCitations’ Citation Indexes, OpenCitations is pleased to announce a new service: OpenCitations Meta , a database which stores and delivers bibliographic metadata for all publications involved in the OpenCitations citation indexes.

It was a year to remember, for more than one reason: 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of GigaScience ’s launch. The journal’s younger sibling GigaByte got an award and continued to innovate with living documents and its first trilingual article. And we published lots of memorable research, featuring, for example, a giant tortoise and 26 deadly snakes.

Discover DOCI, the OpenCitations Index of Datacite open DOI-to-DOI citations