Technical services for capturing diverse and structured credit for non-traditional research artefacts in the Life Sciences. The inner ring covers common categories of non-traditional research artefact groupings, the central ring covers primary non-traditional research artefacts, and the outermost ring highlights technical solutions capable of capturing credit for use to inform later recognition and reward steps.
Credit, recognition, and reward for non-traditional research artefacts in the Life Sciences
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#FAIRdata #OpenScience #Recognition #ResearchAssessment #Scientometrics
11.03.2026 17:31
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EMBL’s Open Science monitoring workflow. For EMBL-led research, detailed compliance regarding Data Management Plans, preprints, and open data and software is gathered when authors publish their articles open access with the support of the Office for Scientific Information Management (OSIM). In the central open access workflow, OSIM processes the payment of an Article Processing Charge (APC) or facilitates open publishing through one of the OA agreements with
publishers²⁷. This subset is a part of all EMBL publications, for which additional information regarding open access and licensing is retrieved from open scholarly databases.
Open access and closed publication trends from 2019 to 2024. The stacked bars indicate the proportion of articles published under various models – Gold (APC-based immediate open access with a CC BY license, in a fully open access journal), Gold in hybrid journal (APC-based immediate open access with a CC BY license in a subscription journal), Green (self-archiving by authors), Bronze (free-to-read, otherwise, all rights reserved) and Closed (access only through subscription, all rights reserved).
El @embl.org muestra que políticas claras, apoyo bibliotecario, infraestructura y formación pueden impulsar #preprints, datos abiertos y software libre, aunque los #DMP siguen siendo el mayor reto
Un buen caso de gobernanza de la #CienciaAbierta #OpenScience
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10.03.2026 07:28
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🗣️ #OpenScience policy wonks and policy-curious folks: Join @cos.io on 3/11 at 12pm ET for an intro to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. We’ll cover the core components and how researchers and policymakers can apply them.
Register 👉 cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
09.03.2026 18:56
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eLife’s Global South Committee is hosting a free webinar exploring Diamond Open Access, featuring a range of industry perspectives and highlighting successful implementations from around the world.
Register free: elifesciences.org/events/94216...
24.02.2026 13:25
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Y esto es #CienciaAbierta #OpenScience 👏
25.02.2026 07:36
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Financial Times, poco sospechoso de izquierdismo, lanza en TikTok una seria advertencia sobre la peligrosa deriva anti democrática de la actual Administración de EEUU > vm.tiktok.com/ZNRPtxdS6/
21.02.2026 05:21
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Deployment of Large Language Models (#LLM) with the EOSC EU Node
With streamlined integration and automated deployment workflows, you can launch powerful models inside their sealed user environments like Mistral in just a few clicks using #Ollama
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19.02.2026 12:38
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Deploy powerful #LLMs with just a few clicks!
The #EOSCEUNode Tools Hub lets researchers launch AI stacks with tools like Ollama + OpenWebUI in their own secure space. Perfect for non-commercial #AI experimentation.
🔗 Step-by-step guide here: go.egi.eu/Bq1ac
#EOSC #OpenScience
19.02.2026 12:23
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International Metadata Recommendations, and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters
With a review of recent policies and recommendations, an overview of metadata formats used in long-form publishing, specific metadata requirements mandated by international aggregators, and a formulation of a two-tiered metadata framework for books and chapters. Executive Summary This report provides a comprehensive review of international metadata standards and requirements for open access books and chapters. It aims to support small-to-medium sized independent scholar-led, as well as institutional, publishers of open access books in implementing effective metadata management practices, thereby improving the discoverability, interoperability and sustainability of open access books. The report situates Thoth Open Metadata within a broader movement towards open, community-owned infrastructure for scholarly publishing, responding to persistent challenges faced by independent and institutional publishers navigating proprietary metadata systems and fragmented technical standards. By consolidating research from major initiatives, including the ongoing work within the Copim Community as well as now-completed European initiatives such as DIAMAS, CRAFT-OA, and PALOMERA, and the corresponding emergence of the journals-focused Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS), the report outlines current policy landscapes, identifies key gaps, and proposes a harmonised approach to metadata for open access books. Key findings include: Metadata openness and interoperability are critical for inclusion of books (open access and non-open access) in research assessment, policy development and monitoring, and equitable dissemination. Legal and accessibility frameworks (e.g. EU GPSR, Americans With Disabilities Act) increasingly necessitate the provision of richer metadata, including funder data, licensing, and accessibility fields, flowing through degradation-free metadata supply chains. Fragmentation of metadata standards and formats (ONIX, MARC, KBART, etc) in use across stakeholders and intermediaries active in the supply chain impedes visibility and reuse of open access books, while also impinging on the reuse of the metadata itself Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) such as DOI, ORCID, and ROR are essential for tracking, attribution, and interoperability – yet adoption remains uneven, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and particularly within the wide archipelago of small-to-medium-sized publishers across the globe. The highly fragmented nature of the book supply chain – with an existing multiplicity of distribution channels and correspondingly fragmented metadata requirements that is substantially different to that of journal publishing – means that policy and technical maturity for open access books has traditionally lagged behind that of journals. In response, the report proposes a two-tiered metadata framework: Essential: essential bibliographic and access data including information on title and subtitle, contributors, copyright holders, subjects classifications, landing page and full-text URLs and/or DOIs at book and chapter level, licence, publisher details, publication date. Releasing metadata into the public domain and making this explicit in the metadata record (e.g. via a CC0 dedication) to facilitate easy re-use e.g. across libraries. Desirable: includes elements such as a fuller set of Persistent Identifiers (ORCID, ROR), usage of a broader set of controlled vocabularies, multilingual metadata, abstracts, cover images, tables of contents, and funder details. A fuller description of the two-tiered metadata framework is available in Section X of this report, and the PDF attached here as a supplement. The proposed metadata framework aligns with emerging international quality standards and policy documents (e.g., Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS), the German Working Group of University Publishers’ [AG Universitätsverlage] Quality Criteria, NISO recommendations, and policies such as the Swedish National Open Access or UKRI Open Access policy ). The report at hand also provides guidance for stakeholders, and with a particular view on small-to-medium-sized publishers of open access books, to facilitate integration with key discovery platforms and aggregators such as OAPEN, DOAB, Google Books, JSTOR, and Project MUSE, while also looking at traditional as well as alternative distribution mechanisms to academic libraries. This is pertinent as library research has shown that traditional library supply chains and distribution mechanisms are not up to the task of properly disseminating open access titles. Hence, alternative open mechanisms are needed to embed open access books more fully within library collections. In essence, the report calls for coordination between stakeholders across open scholarly infrastructure to foster interoperability via a broader adoption of a common open metadata framework, with an overarching goal to empower independent as well as institutional small-to-medium-sized publishers, to enhance discoverability, and to strengthen bibliodiversity. Ultimately, by proposing a future-proof enhanced metadata framework, the report provides a pathway to more centrally position open access long-form publishing in the global scholarly communication ecosystem. Acknowledgement: The authors are indebted to Christina Drummond (OAeBU DT), Arnaud Gingolt (OpenEdition), and Ludo Waltman (Leiden University), who have provided invaluable feedback on sections of this report. Supporting documents: Report document, in multiple file formats; Graphic `Overview of metadata formats, particular specifications, and platforms for open access books'. CC BY 4.0, 2026, Thoth Open Metadata; Spreadsheet `Overview of International Aggregators' Metadata Requirements for Books`, including the proposed framework of Essential and Desired Metadata for OA Books and Chapters (2026). This also available as a live online spreadsheet; and the full bibliography of referenced works in BibTeX and Zotero RDF formats. The extended bibliography can also be accessed via this open Zotero collection.
Report: International Metadata Recommendations, and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters | Zenodo https://zenodo.org/records/18173982
12.02.2026 12:44
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"Don't panic". After a series of risks of using AI in assessment, Prof @maurahiney.bsky.social finishes on what we can do to mitigate negative integrity impacts of AI-assisted assessment. The slides and recording will be posted to Cassyni: cassyni.com/events/JjA2W...
@inorms-reg.bsky.social
11.02.2026 13:41
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📢 New #DiamondOA event series by SeDOA
Real examples, lessons learned, and discussion on implementing Diamond OA in practice.
🔎 First session 5 March 2026 | 14:00–15:00 CET
Diamond OA with Janeway at @tuwien.at
More details & registration: eveeno.com/139459322
#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing
11.02.2026 08:55
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What can I do if my idea has been plagiarized?
An early-career scientist’s idea, shared at a poster session, has been published by someone else. What happens now?
Compartir ideas en pósteres o congresos implica riesgos
@nature.com recuerda qué hacer si alguien publica tu idea sin citarte: documentar pruebas, hablar primero con la otra parte y recurrir a apoyos institucionales si es necesario
#Ética científica en la práctica
#ResearchIntegrity
11.02.2026 08:43
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10.02.2026 08:24
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The Benito effect... activity on Bluesky spiked 70% during the Super Bowl 👀
09.02.2026 22:57
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U.K. Universities Decline New Elsevier Deal
Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey join Essex, Kent and Sussex in walking away from a proposed three-year deal with world’s largest academic publisher.
Three more UK universities have confirmed they are not taking subscriptions to Elsevier journals, with one Russell Group institution hitting out at the “financially unsustainable” terms of the nationally agreed deal.
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #TransformativeAgreements
08.02.2026 15:27
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Morir de soledad
No quiero parecer apocalíptico, pero creo que el drama de la soledad no deseada no es un problema menor, sino el signo de un fracaso colectivo. El ser humano es un animal social, como señaló Aristótel...
OPINIÓN | "No quiero parecer apocalíptico, pero creo que el drama de la soledad no deseada es el signo de un fracaso colectivo. El ser humano es un animal social, como señaló Aristóteles. Se puede morir de soledad"
✍ Por Rafael Narbona
08.02.2026 14:35
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The Mutable Truth: Why Freezing and Versioning Metadata is Essential for Open Science Research Assessment
The mutable truth of metadata. Research outputs evolve but for fair and transparent #ResearchAssessment, their #metadata shouldn't.
See #OpenAIREGraph CTO @pmanghi.bsky.social's arguments for why freezing and versioning metadata is essential in #OpenScience.
🔗 Read the article shorturl.at/h93pq
30.01.2026 13:57
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Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data.
visualisingclimate.org
#VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis
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Un 5% de los españoles cree que la Tierra es plana y un 15% niega el cambio climático, según un estudio
📊Las teorías de la conspiración en España: del 15% de negacionistas del cambio climático al 5% de terraplanistas, según un estudio de la Fundación BBVA
29.01.2026 15:20
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📃 AI policies in #ScholarlyPublishing
A new AI policy from the @openlibhums.org has sparked discussion in the EDCH Forum, from AI disclosure and editorial integrity to fabricated references and the limits of current tools.
🔗 Join the discussion & Forum: bit.ly/3Z0uKVE
#DiamondOA
28.01.2026 11:34
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GetFTR Enables AI Tools to Check Access Rights for Academic Content | GetFTR
GetFTR, the global content access platform connecting users to the full text of trusted academic content, has launched a new capability that allows AI-powered research tools and agents to check conten...
GetFTR integra la verificación de derechos de acceso en herramientas de #IA. Es la materialización técnica de las #bibliotecas "en el flujo" (in the flow) defendida por Dempsey (doi.org/10.18352/lq....).
Al vincular la IA a la Versión de Registro (VoR), ganamos legitimidad y reducimos alucinaciones
28.01.2026 07:12
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DOAJ Platform Manager Brendan O’Connell
Web scraping to train #LLMs has surged in the past few years, overwhelming #OpenAccess infrastructures like #DOAJ with bot traffic.
DOAJ Platform Manager Brendan O'Connell discusses how we’re responding to these challenges.
🤖 #AI #OpenInfrastructure #Chatbots
blog.doaj.org/2026/01/26/o...
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