In this short analysis, Sami Nenno takes a closer look at the content of fact-checks and misinformation in Germany.

Im Beitrag Ein neuer Blick auf Open Access: Wissenschaftliches Publizieren aus Sicht des öffentlichen Beschaffungsrechts, beleuchten die Juristen Alfred Früh und Rika Koch ein Thema, dem in der Schweizer Bibliothekswelt bislang viel zu wenig Beachtung zugekommen ist. Wesentliche Teile des Beitrags stammen aus dem swissuniversities-Projekt Regulatory Framework.

I want to recommit to writing, to recommit to actively and publicly think about what is happening. I want to recommit to the idea that thoughts are dynamic and never settled — that thinking in public helps move away from sharing only finalized arguments. Thoughts are produced and reproduced through the conversations we have, be it directly on the phone or indirectly through writing and reading.

Introduction On August 21, 2022, we made available the first version of our dataset of scholars on Twitter created with two open data sources: Crossref Event Data and OpenAlex.

If you are a leader of a Library or a Research Institution and would like to learn more about the existing open infrastructures that could help your institution to evolve in the research environment, but you don’t know where to look for, you can now use Infra Finder, a brand-new tool aimed at foster discovery, adoption, and investment for open infrastructure services.

The Barcelona Declaration: a call for openness… but also for diversity and inclusion The launch of the Barcelona Declaration last week aims to mobilise the global research community towards making research information open and accessible. The most common argument for openness is that research information plays a central role in the evaluation of institutions and researchers, and in the retrieval of scientific outputs.

Research Information can be defined as an information (sometimes referred to as metadata) relating to the conduct and communication of research.

Open Science at CWTS in retrospect Leiden University sees Open Science (OS) as a key element on the path towards making greater scientific and societal impact and fostering research quality and integrity.

Die Gates Foundation hat angekündigt, ab 2025 keine APCs mehr für Gold OA zu bezahlen. Es reicht ihr, wenn Forschende stattdessen nur einen Preprint mit einer CC-BY-Lizenz veröffentlichen. Geförderte Forschende können ihre Publikationen allerdings immer noch in einem Peer-Review-Journal (auch hinter einer Paywall) veröffentlichen.

Last week, The Scholarly Kitchen posted an article by Angela Cochran,Vice President of Publishing at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, about the inability of publishers to deal with research fraud. She writes: Cochran’s argument is that although publishers manage the peer review process, it was never an expectation of peer review that they would perform ‘forensic analysis’ of datasets and associated materials.