@opensciene-unibonn
๐ Joint Account of the Open Access Service Center, Research Data Service Center, and Digital Humanities services at the University of Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social โ๏ธ researchdata@uni-bonn.de - openaccess@ulb.uni-bonn.de - dh@ulb.uni-bonn.de
The Copim Conference 2026 starts today!
A hybrid event exploring the future of community-led Open access books: from Diamond OA and funding models to accessibility, metadata, and preservation.
๐ copim.pub/join-us-for-...
๐ซ Guidance on OA books: www.open-access.uni-bonn.de/en/basics/op...
Who owns a journal? The publisher or the scholarly community?
๐ Title rights often determine whether editorial boards can leave commercial publishers.
A free webinar (24 Feb 2026 ยท 10:30โ12:00 CET) discusses buy-backs vs. new foundations. Register: eveeno.com/332413058
โ ๏ธ Unsure about a journal? Predatory publishing remains a real threat!
๐ Aletheia-Probe offers an automated check using data from multiple databases.
Open source, run via command line after GitHub download.
Guide: www.open-access.uni-bonn.de/en/basics/pr...
Download: github.com/sustainet-gu...
Digitalis purpurea genome sequence data publication in bonndata. Details: https://doi.org/10.60507/FK2/4KUKXI
Looking for genome sequences, annotations, or expression data from @puckerlabpapers.bsky.social ?
Access large datasets on bonndata:
๐ www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/resea...
#OpenScience #Genomics #ResearchData #Bioinformatics #GenomeData @bpucker.bsky.social @opensciene-unibonn.bsky.social
โจ New in bonndata: Anonymous Preview URLs
Share unpublished datasets anonymously for peer review โ no login needed, no author-identifying metadata shown.
A simple way to support FAIR and transparent review workflows.
๐ bonndata.uni-bonn.de
#bonndata #RDM #OpenScience #PeerReview
๐ Congratulations to @bpucker.bsky.social on receiving the FAIR Data and Software Award for the bHLH_annotator! A great example of FAIR, well-documented research software in practice.
Doing similar things in your research? Weโd love to hear about it ๐ฑ
Looking for the right place to publish Open access?
๐ The oa.finder brings together data on 57,000+ journals and 80+ book publishers, including OA status, APC/BPC info, subject areas and institutional OA resources.
finder.open-access.network
Alt-tex: Graphic with a dark blue background and a stylized yellow light bulb on the left containing the text โRights Retentionโ Whatโs that?โ. On the right, the text reads: โA policy that lets authors apply an open licence (usually CC BY) to their Author Accepted Manuscript before signing a publisher contract.โ The Open Access logo appears at the bottom right.
Weโre continuing our series: one OA term each month!
This month itโs Rights Retention ๐๏ธ
It means keeping reuse rights when publishing so research stays accessible. Organisations such as cOAlition S and SPARC Europe actively support this approach.
Learn more: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
The Service Centers Open Access and Research Data are at the Welcome Event for Doctoral Students organised by the Argelander Program @unibonn.bsky.social for Early-Career Researchers. We are looking forward to introduce our services and tools.
#UniBonn #PhD #Doctorate #Networking #RDM #OA
Running or planning a Diamond Open access journal and wondering how to fund it? ๐ก๐
Join the "SeDOA" hands-on online workshop on 10 December, 10:00โ11:30 (CET) to map your journalโs costs and explore funding models!
More info & registration: www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns...
Working on your thesis and unsure how publishing works? ๐๐
Join our workshop โPublication of Scientific Workโ on 2 Dec 2025 (9โ12 CET), offered by the Bonn Graduate Center in cooperation with the University and State Library Bonn.
โก๏ธ Register: www.uni-bonn.de/de/forschung...
Comic-style infographic with three steps for Open Access funding at the University of Bonn.
Need funding for Open Access publishing at the University of Bonn? ๐๐ฐ
โถ Wiley/Springer Nature/Elsevier (DEAL): Funding is managed in the publisherโs system.
โท Other OA journals: Apply to the Publication Fund!
โธ OA books: Up to โฌ5,000 BPC supported!
๐ www.open-access.uni-bonn.de/en/funding
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
Further information: www.forschungsdaten.uni-bonn.de/en/services/...
Comic style; a guy and a woman at the beach, sitting in the sand, sea in the background, sun is shining; man sunburnt and distressed, painful expression on his face, sweating; woman smiling, no sunburn, wears a hat and has a bottle of โsunscreenโ in her hand saying โbackupโ
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐พ
Backups are like sunscreen: you donโt notice them until itโs too late.
Keep your data safe with @unibonn.bsky.social Sciebo.
๐๐ก๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ฅ๐จ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ, ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฒ ๐จ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ = ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐๐ฉ.
#BestPracticeThursday #DataSecurity #backup #RDM #FDM
Some datasets abroad are now at risk of deletion or manipulation. That can hit research here, too.
Know at-risk datasets relevant to @unibonn.bsky.social?
NRW offers already safety net + new DFG call provides extra funding to secure endangered data (link below).
Contact forschungsdaten@uni-bonn.de
Comic style; old drawer with โfilesโ; one of the files sticks out and has a sad face with tears and sweat; there are spiderwebs and other signs of deterioration inside the drawer
Make your data citable ๐
Your data deserve more than living forever in a forgotten folder.
Publish it in bonndata.uni-bonn.de and get a DOI โ so others can reuse (and cite!) your work.
Sharing = visibility = impact. ๐
#BestPracticeThursday #OpenScience #repository @unibonn.bsky.social
How can Open Access move beyond market logics?
Samuel Moore (Cambridge University Library) will explore "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons": a talk on rethinking OA beyond markets and policy.
๐๏ธ Nov 26, 17:00 CET
๐ Register: unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...
๐ Discover whoโs shaping #OpenAccess in the German-speaking world!
The oa.hub on open-access.network showcases current Open Access projects and services.
open-access.network/en/networkin...
"It is arguably the largest science crisis of all time."
The #StockholmDeclaration urges reform: return publishing to academia, reward quality, detect fraud, protect integrity.
๐ doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Man behind his laptop, puzzled face; thinking bubble with a large digital folder icon in the middle saying "final_final_reallyFinal" and many smaller folder icons saying e,g, "project_v2", "project_dft".
You can tell a lot about a project by its filenamesโฆ and final_reallyFINAL.xlsx tells us everything ๐
Instead: Use clear, consistent names with version numbers
Your future self will thank you
zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/...
#BestPracticeThursday @UniBonn #RDM
Graphic with a dark blue background and a stylized yellow light bulb on the left. Inside the bulb it says: DEAL โ Whatโs that? On the right, the text reads: DEAL stands for nationwide publish and read agreements with major publishers (Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley). The University of Bonn participates in DEAL! At the bottom right is the Open Access logo.
New OA term of the month: DEAL ๐ค
Nationwide publish and read agreements with Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley. The University of Bonn takes part in DEAL. Guidance for authors: www.open-access.uni-bonn.de/en/funding/p...
#OpenAccess #DEAL
It's official now! We will build a statewide research data repository for NRW.
Highlights:
โข ๐๏ธ Based on Dataverse, operated in Bonn
โข ๐งฉ Modular structure: own section for each university
โข ๐ Connected to other state services
โข โ
Quality and visibility with DOIs and standardized review process
Fรถrderinitiative zur Sicherung gefรคhrdeter Datenbestรคnde und zur #Datenresilienz: Die DFG stellt bis 2027 Mittel fรผr Maรnahmen bereit, durch die Datensรคtze und Forschungsergebnisse aus Repositorien im Ausland fรผr die deutsche/europรคische Forschung gesichert werden kรถnnen. www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...
Card with text โForschungsDating, 28.10.2025, Universitรคr Duisburg-Essenโ and Two people with puzzle pieces; in the background stage with person talking
Today, the SFD is dating other research data service centers at the #ForschungsDating2025. We just started with a greeting by Karoline Wirbatz. And she announced big news from @unibonn.bsky.social for fdm.nrw: DataPublication.nrw, a research data repository for NRW higher education institutions ๐ฅณ
ChatGPT: Illustration in flat, comic-like style: four diverse researchers smile and collaborate around open knowledge symbols, a glowing light bulb, an open book, and an unlocked padlock. Above them, the text โWho Owns Our Knowledge?โ appears in bold yellow letters on a blue background.
#OAWeek2025 asked: Who owns our knowledge?
In Germany, this question connects to the strategy by the Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen, calling for community-led OA infrastructures, transparent funding, and digital sovereignty.
๐ www.allianz-der-wissenschaftsorganisationen.de/en/topics-st...
Graphic with a light blue background and a stylized light bulb on the left. Inside the bulb it says Diamond OA โ Whatโs that?. On the right, the text reads: Diamond OA stands for Diamond Open Access. It means: no fees for readers and no fees for authors. Journals are run and funded by institutions or libraries, not commercial publishers. At the bottom right is the URL open-access.uni-bonn.de/en
New OA term of the month: Diamond OA ๐
No fees for readers or authors, journals are run by institutions, libraries, not publishers. Learn more via the new Service Center Diamond Open Access (SeDOA): diamond-open-access.de/en/sedoa/
#OpenAccess #DiamondOA
Curious to learn more about the barriers researchers face when publishing #OpenAccess? The #IDAHO project studies these challenges and works towards a more equitable academic publishing landscape: projects.tib.eu/idaho/
An illustration in blue and yellow tones shows a Black woman researcher standing in front of a large closed door labeled โOpen Access.โ She holds a stack of papers and looks thoughtful. In front of the door are several obstacles labeled with challenges such as โHigh article processing charge,โ โI have no funding to cover article processing fees,โ and โThere are no rewards for publishing OA.โ The image symbolizes the barriers researchers face when trying to publish Open Access.
As a researcher, you do it all: teach, publish, apply for funding. Yet when trying to publish openly, the door often stays closed because of high costs, limited funds, and prestige bias. Thatโs why the University of Bonn supports researchers in overcoming these barriers to #OpenAccess.
