**Europe PMC POSI update – 2 years on ** Two years have sailed by since Europe PMC adopted the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) in February 2021. POSI is a set of guidelines for open scholarly infrastructure providers and outlines how these organisations should be run and sustained. It offers a framework to uphold transparency and accountability.

Lässt sich der Gedanke von offenen Lizenzen auch auf die Landwirtschaft übertragen? Die Initiative Open Source Seeds formuliert Lizenzbedingungen für Open-Source-Saatgut. Das soll die Vielfalt erhalten und Konzern-Monopole eindämmen – auf dem Acker genauso wie auf unseren Tellern. Die Landwirtschaft ist durchzogen von Patenten und Privatisierung.

30 Jahre Freie Software in 30 Minuten Podcast: Der Bayerische Rundfunk spürt in einer hörenswerten Sendung den Ideen hinter Linux und Freier Software nach – und erläutert, wie sich die Bewegung für herstellerunabhängige Programme bis heute entwickelt hat. Still und leise im Hintergrund: So charakterisiert ein aktueller Podcast des Bayerischen Rundfunks die Funktionsweise von Linux.

Since the very start of GigaScience we’ve been strong proponents of Data Citation, helping promote and practice the procedure of affording data the same importance in the scholarly record as citations of other research objects such as publications (see examples of this in GigaBlog and BMC Res Notes ). These efforts by the wider community culminated

GigaScience has always had a focus on reproducibility rather than subjective impact, and it can be challenging for our reviewers to judge this, especially now that more and more tools are being created – bringing data science to the masses.  This also means more efficiency and ease is required especially when multiple collaborators and contributors on a specific project are involved.

GigaScience Press and River Valley Technologies, with the help of Stencila, launch their first interactive “ Executable Research Article ” from their new scientific journal, GigaByte.

The SAMtools suite of tools for manipulating sequencing data one of the most ubiquitous tools in bioinformatics, as the “glue” holding together much of bioinformatics we see it used in pretty much every genomics pipeline we are submitted.

Out today in GigaScience is ShinyLearner, a new tool to make it easier to perform benchmark comparisons of classification algorithms. This tool stands out by making this process super systematic and reproducible, and despite needing to interface with many different libraries and languages it uses software containers (and a CodeOcean demo) so end users don’t need to worry about this complexity.

The free online book Open Forensic Science in R was created to foster open science practices in the forensic science community.

We tend to know a good open source research software project when we see it: The code is well-documented, users contribute back to the project, the software is licensed and citable, and the community interacts and co-produces in a healthy, productive fashion.